 The story behind J&S is this. Once upon a time J&S was actually a business, though not a very well run business. The company would regularly dump their waste out back somewhere and bury it. Unfortunately, their waste was really toxic waste. The owner eventually abandened the building, sortly after he died. Now the property rested in the hands of the bank. Because of the how much money it would take to clean up the toxic waste the bank abandened the mortage leaving responsibility to Ontario County. There was actually a huge conspiracy about WHERE the chemicals were. Some thought it was out back under the driveway, some thought that it was burried underneath the new addition. Either way the building sat there, unoccupied for years. Eventually, skateboarders in Honeoye realized the opportunity to use the parking lot to set up ramps and skate there. The ground wasn't great, but at the time it was better than nothing at all. A door in an alley-way of the building was broken open allowing kids to enter and explore the inside of the building. Mostly everything was cleaned out of the building except for miscellaneous things such as plastic bottles, cardboard tubes, and about 300 books and binders left in a pile in the old conference room.   A desk was found inside the building and pulled out and used to grind on. Eventually better ramps were built that actually resembled skateboard ramps a little more. J&S was actually fun to skate at, for about a week last summer. The ramps did not last long. Kids were cool and built good ramps and then brought them down, but they could not sustain the beatings from bikers, the weather, and white trash robo-trippin' kids. This spring some kids attempted to build some stable ramps, and they were actually smooth for a couple weeks. But then again, nothing lasts for long at J&S. Interesting things happen over night. All is fine and well and you go there the next day and things are moved, flipped over. It messes with your head. By spring of 2001 the intrusions into J&S were becoming more and more frequent. Not only were people trespassing and destroying the building from the outside as well as the inside, but there were also kids sleeping inside in the old office rooms of the building. The town attempted to close up and lock the doors four times, but it did nothing to stop the vandalism. As of present J&S is junk. Matt West has takin it upon himself to collect all the lumber down there and burn it. Leaving little left but what you see in the pictures above. From those pictures you can see how destroyed the ramps are. J&S is not a safe place to skate, not only because of the rocky pavement and nuclear waste buried someone on the property, but also because of the broken glass and tattered ramps.  Written by Matt West on 7/9/2001 Last revised on 4/11/2001 |
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