SAN BERNARDINO – Tristan Rennie dreams about pools he’ll never skate, spots he’s seen in videos but never had the pleasure of visiting, not while he’s awake anyway. Thus is life for a legendary pool skateboarder; some places you can only go to catch air while you’re catching Zzz’s.

“That’s just the cycle,” the 27-year-old from Rialto told me last week while we chatted about old-school pools, those architectural beauties, often kidney-shaped, inviting, inverted cement sculptures. They proliferated Southern California in the 1950s and ’60s and, during a drought a decade later, lured in skateboarders when homeowners drained them, giving skaters a canvas to create a whole new way of doing it – vertically.

Those pools come and go now; there one day, gone the next, sometimes filled back up wit

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