Weep Frontside Rock n Roll on a cinder blockvThe High School Ditch circa 1986
Photograph Ben Cornish
Thats me (jason Oliva) on the other side of the Ditch. This skate spot was through the woods and across a major highway near Watchung Hills Regional High School in New Jersey.
Rocky, Dan, Ben, Weep, Greg, Carl, Mike, James, The Mcdowall bros, Jimmy and Dennis Kane and all of The Raging Lamos attended this school and it is where most of us met.
Needless to say we would cut lunch once an awhile to get in some skating.Tine was limited and Weeps took the longest run’s imaginable. It could be kinda annoying but that was Weeps style he ruled all of these skate spots in New Jersey.
October 2, 2006 at 6:27 pm
Man I busted up hard there a few times!
October 3, 2006 at 10:42 am
In the future they will be able to scrape enough dna off of New Jersey drainage ditches to clone an army of skateboarders.
jason oliva
November 7, 2006 at 2:30 pm
Hey folks,
I still skate the ditch and think about the ghosts of the past. Man I miss weeps bustin long ass green rooms at the 78 ditch. My helmet is still covered in team steam and zorlac stickers that weep gave me.
November 7, 2006 at 2:36 pm
Hey Hey Tommy
Too true about Weep. I think we all have begun to realise this site is one big love letter to him, and his life. I am getting geared up to bombard the site with alot of things related to Weep in the coming weeks so if you have any pictures or stories please email me with them.
Good to hear from you my Brutha!!!
jason oliva
P.S. new “The House of Steam” stickers directly from he mind of Stevie “D” coming soon so make room on that helmet.!!!
November 7, 2006 at 6:12 pm
I remember crashing at Tommy Miller’s dorm room at ASU in Saguaro Hall (pronnounced Sa-wah-row) on a last minute trip to Tempe with Weep in ‘89. It’s weird to think I live a mile from there now.
The Ghosts of the Past have been spreaded from coast to coast.
November 8, 2006 at 4:55 pm
Damn-
Weep and I skated that ditch the last day of high school. I only saw him maybe twice after that. Amazing how everything evolves. I have a ton of old Weep photos. Let me know where to dump em Jason.
November 9, 2006 at 1:45 pm
Roenner in the house!