Bro Bowl, Skatepark in Perry Harvey Sr. Park, Tampa, United States
The Bro Bowl is a skatepark with ramps, bowls, and banking features built from concrete, designed for skateboard riders at all skill levels. The layout provides space for beginners and advanced skaters to practice and develop their techniques on the different features.
The skatepark was built in 1979 and gained recognition in 2013 as the first skatepark in the United States listed on the National Register of Historic Places. This milestone shows how the sport and its venues became recognized as part of American cultural history.
The name comes from the city housing projects nearby: early skaters called the bowl "the place where the brothers riot", and the press and even Tampa's mayor later took the nickname literally. In 2010 it was the subject of the documentary "The Bro Bowl: 30 Years of Tampa Concrete".
The skatepark offers free public access and connects to nearby pathways throughout the park for easy navigation. Visitors should come prepared with proper safety gear, as the features vary in difficulty and the surface is unforgiving.
In 1998 the Bro Bowl appeared in Birdhouse's fourth video, The End, skated by Andrew Reynolds, then Thrasher Magazine's pro skateboarder of the year. A 2010 documentary, "The Bro Bowl: 30 Years of Tampa Concrete," covered the park's history. The bowl also features as a point of interest in the Tampa level of Tony Hawk's Underground.
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