Toby Burger: Photography & Pool Skateboarding Videos of Southern California Culture and Beyond 

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Private Property-No Trespassing, Rubidoux California, 2002.

Scouting missions through the Riverside area yielded some gems like this fully occupied apartment complex with a bone dry 'right hand kidney' pool. In a very shady part of town, this place was devoid of skateboarding at the time. Bad roads, abject poverty, gangs, drugs and a crumbling infrastructure, this place has been slow to develope especially in today's lackluster economy.

In 2005, this image was printed on the first 1000 DVDs of "Under the Influence" Southern California pool skateboarding documentary. It was later reused as the back cover of the 2nd edition "Under the Influence" release.