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BUY THE AUTUMN BOWL ON EBAY

Well, this is terrible. The banks just closed a few months ago, and now the Autumn Bowl is going gently into that good night. New York is painfully lacking in the indoor skatepark department, and the bowl was the only sure thing to skate during the snowy bullshit months of December through March.

The good news is that if you have $15,000 you can buy the fucker and plop it down wherever you want. Remember that pocket where Cardiel dropped in right after he learned how to walk again? You could teach your kid to drop in in that same spot, or, if you're like me and hate children, you could grind that corner every day with your morning coffee and never let your neighbors' kids skate it.

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The bowl has to be out of the warehouse by the 29th of August, so start bidding. Here's a few videos that make our hearts hurt to watch.

Zered and Joey were at the bowl all the time. They were usually together and I always liked to think of them as Wayne and Garth, except for being shitty at hockey they were stupid good at skating gigantic bowls. One time I saw Zared do a bluntslide to 5-0 to fakie over the island. Yeah.

I didn't go to this, but I heard it was ridiculous and now it will be one of the many missed opportunities I had to go to the bowl that will haunt my dreams forever.

This is one of my favorite videos of the bowl ever. Dogs and Andy Kessler. It just doesn't get any better.

JONATHAN SMITH