Skating Rinks

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I posted some songs in the music thread that reminded me of when teens used to “go skating”. (roller states) (I personally remember them in the mid-late 1960s) I think you could rent skates for 50 cents.

I was never very good; started out stiff and fell on my butt many times, and this was before knee/elbow pads. But I tried. It was hard enough staying out of the way of the good skaters. :laugh:

But some kids were PROS. Wow, they would whiz by, keeping time with the music, turning around and around, never falling. Then the slow songs – couples would skate and we’d all watch from the sidelines.

Any skaters?
 

My girlfriend and I got on a skating kick in the early 60's in the high school years. Went every week for one summer. Neither of us got very good at it, though. And then we went on to something else. :eek:nthego:
 
I was a "rink rat" in the early 50's. Had my own detachable skates and I was pretty good. I could "rex" (skate backwards) as good as most. I skated 2 or more days a week for a couple years.
 

Yes...I loved Disco Roller skating...it was just like going dancing , but on wheels ( late 60's early 70's:D)...all the latest chart hits, strobe lighting etc, but on roller skates... I remember those days with great affection!!

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I was one of the neighborhood street skaters - we never went to a rink; we'd fly down our hilly neighborhood streets in Yonkers, try to avoid getting hit by cars, set up "obstacle courses" (jumps off sheets of plywood, etc.), play street hockey - even fly around in my parents' huge basement and smash into things. :cower:

... probably explains my brain damage ...
 
NancyNGA said:
My girlfriend and I got on a skating kick in the early 60's in the high school years. Went every week for one summer. Neither of us got very good at it, though. And then we went on to something else. :eek:nthego:
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The wife and I enjoyed the skate rinks back then..It got to a point where I could not skate without a partner at my side!! LOL
 
Loved it and I could waltz and fox trot on the rink with the best of 'em... I went twice a week in the 60's.. This was my rink..

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My parents were both excellent skaters (my dad had been a roller-derby star when roller-derby was a serious sport), so they had me on skates as soon as I could walk. The skating rink was my social life until high school when I discovered boys.....even boys who couldn't skate - lol. The last time I was on roller skates was in 1980, when I fell down on the boardwalk at Daytona Beach, landed on my face and broke my nose.
 
Yep we had those skates as kids too AC, with the key and the strap and laces right at the front of the skate so the skate always slipped off

During the early 70's while I was wearing knee high platform soled boots ...I'd have been a lot happier on roller disco nights if my skates had looked like this ... :wiggle:


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QuickSilver said:
This is Fleetwood way out on the SW side... Archer and Harlem

Girls wore skating skirts and the colored pom-poms on their skates..

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applecruncher said:
As a kid I had a pair of these (which used a little "key"). For sidewalk and parking lot skating.

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applecruncher said:
Guarded that key as if it opened Fort Knox. Almost as valuable as my diary key.

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