Cosmic Waves Skateboard Park - Kalamazoo MI

"Cosmic Waves was outdoors, it was just your typical formula park—like if you looked in the back of any old Skateboarder and saw [an ad for] 'Sarasota Skatepark', you know. It's like, go down the sidewalk, it empties into a giant lumpy bowl with an extension, then it comes into a lumpier snake-run that ends up into a little spittle bowl. Then we had a halfpipe stuck in the middle with a giant mound, a quarterpipe at the end and two little halfpipe runs that were just little ditches. Ray Allen from Marina Del Rey came out and built the Dog Bowl at our park. That's when we really started concentrating on pool skating."

-Steve ("Stevie Dread") Snyder, excerpt from 2002 interview with Garry Davis' Skatepunk.net