And skated without a helmet, knee pads or elbow pads. I grew up with metal wheels on the cement sidewalks. Later in my teens skating rinks started opening up. First time I ever tried rubber or neoprene wheels on a rubbery type of skating rink floor. Man I was in love. The loud music and deep base was the best. Slow skating with that special girlfriend to a favorite love song was priceless and innocent. Thanks Retro Daze!!
After not skating for over 10 years, all it took was playing some old funk music from the 80s and 90s on my mp3 to get me back on skates. It was very hard getting back on my horse but even with the aches and pains of getting this 'old engine the could' going again; I've not stopped, it has been now 6 years and loving every minute of it. I skate all over the place now, San Diego, Fountain Valley, Holiday and Venice Beach. It is awesome!
The Roller Rink was a great time after school. Friday Night was a "Lock In" from 9PM Until 6AM, At my childhood Roller Rink. The smell of the Roller Rink is very distinct, there's no other place that smells that way? Great Content!👍🏻🇺🇲
I agree…… About five years ago at my age over 55...😂😂.... I got a group of people to go we had a fun time. I'm glad we went sadly. That particular rink closed down there's Only two rings left within a 50 mile radius of where I live
I participated in a lot of those all night skates but in my case, they were usually fundraisers for things like multiple sclerosis .... we would try to raise money and the people that raise the most money would get prizes
Not sure about other rinks but at ours making out in the corner was a big thing. There was the floor person who skated around making sure everything ok and would yell "break it up". The 70's...such great times amd memories...
I was a DJ at a rink in So Cal. I worked there in high school from 78-81. It was a rock star job and working adult nite on Thursday's was the pinnacle! We had a concrete floor with the blue poly urethane coating. Red Light/Green Light, Shoot the Duck, Speed Skate to Led Zeppelin's Black Dog, All Night Skates, Parade's wearing the Roller Rabbit costume, so many people the walls would sweat, so many people you didn't have to move your feet to get around the floor. Testing the brand new rink stereo and speakers to the brand new Off the Wall album. Walking in on a Friday nite with an arm full of albums and kids acting like I was a rock star. Going to Black Angus after adult nite and rexing on the dance floor. Skate Factory in Placentia, CA. Later it was renamed to Skateway. The owner owned 2 rinks. One, Skate Factory in Placentia and the other Skateway in Cypress. We had a softball game to determine which would be renamed... We lost... The Placentia rink is now a Chuck E Cheese/DMV. Great video. Thank you for the walk down memory lane.
@@robertgardner1498 Thank you for sharing those awesome memories Robert. It’s so cool that you were a DJ at a rink during some of the best days for roller skating!
I started skating in 1958. I was 5 years old. Skated on a wooden rink and rented skates. I quit around the age of 10 or 11. Recently started up again 2 months ago but use rollerblades. I remember now how much fun it was and is now. I skate 3 times a week and hour at a time.
@@John-s7s8s That’s so awesome! I myself (Producer Tony) just recently went roller skating for the first time in 3 decades. While it took some time getting used to the weight of the skates, once I did, I realized I hadn’t lost a step!
I went to elementary school in the 1980s and we actually took field trips to the skating rink. Starlight Skating Rink in Florida. I remember skating to Belinda Carlisle, Culture Club, Howard Jones, etc. Good times.
In my town in California, we had 2 rinks. Both were Olympic sized urethane rinks that were well maintained due to figure skating competitions and roller hockey. I moved to the deep south where rinks are smaller, not as maintained and might have wood floors or even smaller rinks that were intended for roller derby. The larger rinks were wide enough that the slow skaters could ride the wall and fast skaters still had plenty of room to ride the middle track. So much easier to merge into skate traffic this way. Skating styles are "very" different between east and west coast and it was a bit of a culture shock. We Rex skated, so RB, shuffle style ect. were all foreign. So glad to be currently surrounded by roller rinks, its my favorite way to have healthy fiun.
@@RetroDaze , thank you, Tony! I found this channel of yours last night. I was born in September 1973, and I love to find TH-cam channels and videos that show off and celebrate the great things we enjoyed growing up as Generation X'ers! Throughout most of the 1980's, most Friday nights I went to North Canton Skate Center and had a good time. I'd give almost anything to have the 1980's back again, it really was a special time to be alive! I'm looking forward to videos yet to come on your channel. Cheers! John from Canton.
We went to the “Congressional Roller Rink” in Rockville Maryland. It was housed in an old airplane hangar left over from the long closed airport of the same name. In a booth overlooking the rink, a woman played a Hammond organ, providing an accompaniment of skating music. Good times on a Friday night!
My only memory of a roller rink when I was a kid was I never knew how to skate, I did not had the skills. I would go out on the rink, hold on to the side walls for dear life. As I go around the rink, the rink side wall as I grab on merges with the wall of the establishment and I was really stuck out there in the far back and slowly made my way back across the rink while everyone around me are skating by and avoiding them while maneuvering or continue to finish the lap around back to the rink's entrance
Here in the UK Roller Rinks weren't really a thing but we did have Ice Skating Disco's. My local Town Hall tried doing a couple of Roller Disco's that were basically a Mobile Disco set up on the stage, bring your own skates and a tuck shop. Unfortunately the local council decided that the skates were damaging the flooring and put a stop to it. Great video as always and keep up the awesome work!
The skating rink... So many childhood memories! When I was growing up, we had one called "Skate Ranch" right across from our local movie theater, so you were either at one of those two places on the weekends or the mall. Skate Ranch did have an arcade area because I definitely remember air hockey. They even had room with a seating area and a projector screen so you could watch TV while eating your snacks. As for the snacks themselves, I only ever got French fries so I wouldn't know how the other food tasted. Also, they had like a little jukebox system where you could pick your favorite song. But for me, it was an experience I'll always treasure. Just the chance that you might run into people you know from school made it special. It was even a girl from school who helped teach me to skate there at the rink. Sorry the long post, I just hadn't thought about the rink in years!
@@BrandonPenson Do not apologize! We love reading other’s memories, long and short. Thank you for sharing yours Brandon! For me (Producer Tony), this video was particularly special. My memories from our local skating rink are some of my most prized. I lived at the top of a hill in a small rural neighborhood, but at the bottom was our skating rink, and it was an important place in my childhood.
WE HAD A SKATE RANCH IN SANTA ANA, CA. THAT PLACE WAS AMAZING! They had tractor seats everywhere instead of benches! Our elementary and middle schools all had skate nites there! WOW... what a blast from the past!
Shoot the duck was a lot of fun but now when our knees have gotten old and stiff with arthritis it's a lot harder to do. its sucks getting old. I remember playing these games including Red Light Green Light and Turtle Races on those little sit down things that you had to swing the handle bars side to side to get forward motion, they were also called roller Racers. The place I used to go the DJ would take requests and would announce couples only skate sometimes. I miss 70s and 80s roller rinks. now it's all Hip Hop. and gangs. not many left now either . The insurance is way too high from frivolous law suits. Thanks for taking us down memory lane. At the rink I went to they also back in 1980 did a Xanadu night in honor of the musical of the same name with Olivia Newton John and Electric Light Orchestra.
Couples Skate was a big deal to us as we wondered if we would or would not be asked to. At least that would still be something we could physically do, unlike Shooting The Duck. 😆
My roller skates and rollerblades sat in our wardrobe by the back door while I happily declared for 10 years that I would one day take them out and use them. I think they were still there the day I turned 17 and moved out 😊
Spent a lot of weekends at “Coachlight” in St. Louis. That or “Rocky Horror Picture Show” Good times! Except for one. We were only 10-15 minutes in one night, when one of our friends fell on his arm and broke it in 2 places. It was nasty. We loaded him up and we all took him to the ER.
That happened to my (Producer Tony) sister one night at our local rink! She was couple skating with a boy who was a very bad skater. He fell and brought her down too, and she snapped her forearm in two. It was nasty. The rink owner wrapped rolled up newspapers with tape to secure it until my mom arrived to take her to the hospital.
I went to a skating rink in I want to say Coral Springs or somewhere around there in the 80's and I do remember that! I am born, raised, and still in New Jersey and we did have that at our local rink.
I went to a roller rink with the rest of the kids at the end of the school year. I went to private school with my brother and my cousins. It was a Christian school. St. John's, to be exact. It was this roller rink in Lansing, and if I remember correctly, they are still open. I went on Google Maps to find out where the school used to be because it was knocked down to make room for condos. The school went through some financial problems. I had found the place, and it was easy to recognize than the place where the old school was. I went there two years? I wasn't at that school for long. They did do the Hokey Pokey which was wild. I don't know if they had a DJ. They might have. One of the years that I went to the roller rink when they did the Hokey Pokey, the song started skipping. Maybe it was a tape. The music probably came from a tape or tapes. The thing started skipping. It skipped only once or twice because I remember how it went. You do the Hokey Pokey and you do the Hokey Pokey and you..🎶 Just like that, and the kids started getting mad. I'm not sure what music they played, but it was usually the hits. The 90s hit songs. I don't know. I do remember hearing Michael Jackson's Don't Stop Till You Get Enough. By that point in time, it was an old song. And Too Leigit To Quit by MC Hammer.
I totally remember those songs! During the all girls skate they would play Ladies night and Lookout Weekend, and during the all guys skate they would play Let’s hear it for the boy and Freak-a-Zoid. During Couple skating only it was Heaven by Bryan Adams. I miss those days!
We need third places like this back, especially for kids and teens running out of places to go have fun like this that they can afford! I didn’t get to go much as a kid because I was born into a generation where this was starting to die, my local one’s building was even demolished a few years before the pandemic after things dried up…I can only think of one accessible to me that still exists and that’s in the next state over! Kids are getting into trouble with authorities left and right for loitering in parking lots (the sheer amount of ‘no loitering’ signs I see these days!) or goofing around in Walmarts, getting nagged about being on their phones or computers all the time…how’s about those people pitch in to get places like these revived for kids to play and have fun (moderately) safely? Unless they just like having things to complain about, and kids are the convenient target? 🤔🙄
I was a 70s, skater kid and I use to love when the girls got to ask guys to skate (couples only) met a boy that became my boyfriend for the summer LOL!
Here's my "Yes..I am old" story...the roller rink I went to used to be an ice-skating rink (Baystate Ice Arena)..I used to take ballet lessons upstairs in the building..we used to get yelled at by our instructor when we looked out the window to watch people ice skating...then in the late 70's it closed...then in the 80's it re-opened as a roller rink (Starwheels) ...I have great memories from going there...absolutely loved it...then it eventually closed..and became a family arcade type place for those who had young children..(Fantasy Land) ..I believe that is now closed for good...
You forgot Jam On It by Newcleus! We have a skating rink in my town that has been here as long as I can remember (I remember going there as early as 1979). My son, who is now 24, was the last generation of kids to go skating there every Friday night. It isn't that popular like it used to be unfortunately.
I remember one time a blonde kid accidentally bumped into me and I tripped. He probably felt bad and showed me how to use the grenade button on Operation Wolf.
that was meeee....❤❤❤🛼🛼🛼 I was lucky enough to have speed races at one of my rinks. I did compete and won a trophy..... ironically it's one of the few.... things I have saved throughout my lifetime 😁
That feeling when you take off your skates and put on your sneakers and take a couple steps, like a new born deer.😂
😂 So true! Then you lay down in bed and feel like you’re still skating.
And skated without a helmet, knee pads or elbow pads.
I grew up with metal wheels on the cement sidewalks. Later in my teens skating rinks started opening up. First time I ever tried rubber or neoprene wheels on a rubbery type of skating rink floor. Man I was in love. The loud music and deep base was the best.
Slow skating with that special girlfriend to a favorite love song was priceless and innocent.
Thanks Retro Daze!!
Thank you for watching, AND for sharing those memories!
80’s kid here! Loved when our school would have skate nights! I would always do the speed skates competition! So fun! Loved skating
That’s excellent! Speed skating was a blast.
After not skating for over 10 years, all it took was playing some old funk music from the 80s and 90s on my mp3 to get me back on skates. It was very hard getting back on my horse but even with the aches and pains of getting this 'old engine the could' going again; I've not stopped, it has been now 6 years and loving every minute of it. I skate all over the place now, San Diego, Fountain Valley, Holiday and Venice Beach. It is awesome!
That is awesome!!! It never really leaves you. It just slumbers until you wake up that skating spirit within.
This has become one of my favorite channels on TH-cam. Thanks for always providing me with a brief escape from reality.
It is our great pleasure!
The Roller Rink was a great time after school. Friday Night was a "Lock In" from 9PM Until 6AM, At my childhood Roller Rink. The smell of the Roller Rink is very distinct, there's no other place that smells that way? Great Content!👍🏻🇺🇲
Thanks Z Man. And thanks for sharing the memories.
I remember that!! In Aurora, Colorado...loved the lock in!
Roller rinks need to make a comeback
Thankfully they haven’t ALL disappeared. Do some careful searching and you may find that one is closer than you think.
I agree…… About five years ago at my age over 55...😂😂.... I got a group of people to go we had a fun time. I'm glad we went sadly. That particular rink closed down there's
Only two rings left within a 50 mile radius of where I live
I remember the all night skates too! Start at 7 PM and finish the next morning at 6 AM. Good times!
All night skates? That’s crazy. Didn’t know that was a thing!
I participated in a lot of those all night skates but in my case, they were usually fundraisers for things like multiple sclerosis .... we would try to raise money and the people that raise the most money would get prizes
USA skate in Columbus, Ohio!! We had everything in this video!!
Very nice! Is that still around?
The only thing I got from the roller rink was a sore butt. I eventually just hung out at the video games and pinball 🤣
Just as well. If nothing else at least you could get a high score.
SHOT THROUGH THE HEART......
and the place would go nuts. just as if Jon himself had walked through the door. yep, you know how old I am.
Just the right age it seems!
Not sure about other rinks but at ours making out in the corner was a big thing.
There was the floor person who skated around making sure everything ok and would yell "break it up".
The 70's...such great times amd memories...
It seems like it would be kind of weird to be hanging out in one of the corners making out. 😆
@@RetroDaze was just junior high kissing
Ahh. Gotcha. 👍🏻
I met my 1st love ❤️ @Skate City! @ 12... We stayed together til we were 16yr.olds!!
🩷🩷🩷 Great memories, for sure!!
Mirror ball, double Dutch bus! Fun times, friend!
Great memories!
Great video! I was a DJ in the 80’s and it was awesome! Loved skating then and now! But the 80’s the best! 👍🏻
That’s awesome! DJ’s were the kings of the rinks back then. 🤴
I was a DJ at a rink in So Cal. I worked there in high school from 78-81. It was a rock star job and working adult nite on Thursday's was the pinnacle! We had a concrete floor with the blue poly urethane coating. Red Light/Green Light, Shoot the Duck, Speed Skate to Led Zeppelin's Black Dog, All Night Skates, Parade's wearing the Roller Rabbit costume, so many people the walls would sweat, so many people you didn't have to move your feet to get around the floor. Testing the brand new rink stereo and speakers to the brand new Off the Wall album. Walking in on a Friday nite with an arm full of albums and kids acting like I was a rock star. Going to Black Angus after adult nite and rexing on the dance floor.
Skate Factory in Placentia, CA. Later it was renamed to Skateway. The owner owned 2 rinks. One, Skate Factory in Placentia and the other Skateway in Cypress. We had a softball game to determine which would be renamed... We lost... The Placentia rink is now a Chuck E Cheese/DMV.
Great video. Thank you for the walk down memory lane.
@@robertgardner1498 Thank you for sharing those awesome memories Robert. It’s so cool that you were a DJ at a rink during some of the best days for roller skating!
I started skating in 1958. I was 5 years old. Skated on a wooden rink and rented skates. I quit around the age of 10 or 11. Recently started up again 2 months ago but use rollerblades. I remember now how much fun it was and is now. I skate 3 times a week and hour at a time.
@@John-s7s8s That’s so awesome! I myself (Producer Tony) just recently went roller skating for the first time in 3 decades. While it took some time getting used to the weight of the skates, once I did, I realized I hadn’t lost a step!
I went to elementary school in the 1980s and we actually took field trips to the skating rink. Starlight Skating Rink in Florida. I remember skating to Belinda Carlisle, Culture Club, Howard Jones, etc. Good times.
I would have been so excited to get to take a field trip to the skating rink!
In my town in California, we had 2 rinks. Both were Olympic sized urethane rinks that were well maintained due to figure skating competitions and roller hockey. I moved to the deep south where rinks are smaller, not as maintained and might have wood floors or even smaller rinks that were intended for roller derby.
The larger rinks were wide enough that the slow skaters could ride the wall and fast skaters still had plenty of room to ride the middle track. So much easier to merge into skate traffic this way.
Skating styles are "very" different between east and west coast and it was a bit of a culture shock. We Rex skated, so RB, shuffle style ect. were all foreign.
So glad to be currently surrounded by roller rinks, its my favorite way to have healthy fiun.
@@lydiakossow That’s not something we often considered… the differences between the coasts with regard to skating. Thank you for the insight!
The rink at 2:35 is in Cleveland, I'm from northeast Ohio! :) Thanks for this video.
That’s awesome! I (Tony G) am from/live in southeast Ohio.
@@RetroDaze , thank you, Tony! I found this channel of yours last night. I was born in September 1973, and I love to find TH-cam channels and videos that show off and celebrate the great things we enjoyed growing up as Generation X'ers! Throughout most of the 1980's, most Friday nights I went to North Canton Skate Center and had a good time. I'd give almost anything to have the 1980's back again, it really was a special time to be alive! I'm looking forward to videos yet to come on your channel. Cheers! John from Canton.
We went to the “Congressional Roller Rink” in Rockville Maryland. It was housed in an old airplane hangar left over from the long closed airport of the same name. In a booth overlooking the rink, a woman played a Hammond organ, providing an accompaniment of skating music. Good times on a Friday night!
That sounds like a very unique skating experience! Is that still around?
Birthday parties and my dad's Monday Night Employee Skate Nights
Had a birthday party at one myself (Tony G). Have the horrible pictures to prove it. 😆
My only memory of a roller rink when I was a kid was I never knew how to skate, I did not had the skills. I would go out on the rink, hold on to the side walls for dear life. As I go around the rink, the rink side wall as I grab on merges with the wall of the establishment and I was really stuck out there in the far back and slowly made my way back across the rink while everyone around me are skating by and avoiding them while maneuvering or continue to finish the lap around back to the rink's entrance
It definitely took some practice. Once you felt comfortable with balancing, the rest came much more easily.
Here in the UK Roller Rinks weren't really a thing but we did have Ice Skating Disco's. My local Town Hall tried doing a couple of Roller Disco's that were basically a Mobile Disco set up on the stage, bring your own skates and a tuck shop. Unfortunately the local council decided that the skates were damaging the flooring and put a stop to it. Great video as always and keep up the awesome work!
Party poopers!
@@RetroDaze In a Kindergarten Cop kinda way ;-)
The skating rink... So many childhood memories!
When I was growing up, we had one called "Skate Ranch" right across from our local movie theater, so you were either at one of those two places on the weekends or the mall.
Skate Ranch did have an arcade area because I definitely remember air hockey. They even had room with a seating area and a projector screen so you could watch TV while eating your snacks. As for the snacks themselves, I only ever got French fries so I wouldn't know how the other food tasted. Also, they had like a little jukebox system where you could pick your favorite song.
But for me, it was an experience I'll always treasure. Just the chance that you might run into people you know from school made it special. It was even a girl from school who helped teach me to skate there at the rink.
Sorry the long post, I just hadn't thought about the rink in years!
@@BrandonPenson Do not apologize! We love reading other’s memories, long and short. Thank you for sharing yours Brandon!
For me (Producer Tony), this video was particularly special. My memories from our local skating rink are some of my most prized. I lived at the top of a hill in a small rural neighborhood, but at the bottom was our skating rink, and it was an important place in my childhood.
WE HAD A SKATE RANCH IN SANTA ANA, CA. THAT PLACE WAS AMAZING! They had tractor seats everywhere instead of benches! Our elementary and middle schools all had skate nites there! WOW... what a blast from the past!
Had a birthday skate party one time too with pizza, cake, and ice cream.
It was a great place for birthday parties, especially if you knew your friends were not good skaters. 😆
Shoot the duck was a lot of fun but now when our knees have gotten old and stiff with arthritis it's a lot harder to do. its sucks getting old. I remember playing these games including Red Light Green Light and Turtle Races on those little sit down things that you had to swing the handle bars side to side to get forward motion, they were also called roller Racers. The place I used to go the DJ would take requests and would announce couples only skate sometimes. I miss 70s and 80s roller rinks. now it's all Hip Hop. and gangs. not many left now either . The insurance is way too high from frivolous law suits. Thanks for taking us down memory lane. At the rink I went to they also back in 1980 did a Xanadu night in honor of the musical of the same name with Olivia Newton John and Electric Light Orchestra.
Couples Skate was a big deal to us as we wondered if we would or would not be asked to. At least that would still be something we could physically do, unlike Shooting The Duck. 😆
My roller skates and rollerblades sat in our wardrobe by the back door while I happily declared for 10 years that I would one day take them out and use them.
I think they were still there the day I turned 17 and moved out 😊
Maybe they are STILL there! 😆
Spent a lot of weekends at “Coachlight” in St. Louis. That or “Rocky Horror Picture Show” Good times! Except for one. We were only 10-15 minutes in one night, when one of our friends fell on his arm and broke it in 2 places. It was nasty. We loaded him up and we all took him to the ER.
That happened to my (Producer Tony) sister one night at our local rink! She was couple skating with a boy who was a very bad skater. He fell and brought her down too, and she snapped her forearm in two. It was nasty. The rink owner wrapped rolled up newspapers with tape to secure it until my mom arrived to take her to the hospital.
What about the separate breakdancing floor? We always had one of those in South Florida
A separate floor for breakdancing!? No way! That's awesome.
I went to a skating rink in I want to say Coral Springs or somewhere around there in the 80's and I do remember that! I am born, raised, and still in New Jersey and we did have that at our local rink.
I went to a roller rink with the rest of the kids at the end of the school year. I went to private school with my brother and my cousins. It was a Christian school. St. John's, to be exact. It was this roller rink in Lansing, and if I remember correctly, they are still open. I went on Google Maps to find out where the school used to be because it was knocked down to make room for condos. The school went through some financial problems. I had found the place, and it was easy to recognize than the place where the old school was. I went there two years? I wasn't at that school for long. They did do the Hokey Pokey which was wild. I don't know if they had a DJ. They might have. One of the years that I went to the roller rink when they did the Hokey Pokey, the song started skipping. Maybe it was a tape. The music probably came from a tape or tapes. The thing started skipping. It skipped only once or twice because I remember how it went. You do the Hokey Pokey and you do the Hokey Pokey and you..🎶 Just like that, and the kids started getting mad. I'm not sure what music they played, but it was usually the hits. The 90s hit songs. I don't know. I do remember hearing Michael Jackson's Don't Stop Till You Get Enough. By that point in time, it was an old song. And Too Leigit To Quit by MC Hammer.
roller (derby) rinks = I think of either: Disco music or "When I Hear Music" or "Lookout Weekend" - by Debbie Deb (80's (Latin) freestyle music)...
Ahh… good times and good music.
I totally remember those songs! During the all girls skate they would play Ladies night and Lookout Weekend, and during the all guys skate they would play Let’s hear it for the boy and Freak-a-Zoid. During Couple skating only it was Heaven by Bryan Adams. I miss those days!
We need third places like this back, especially for kids and teens running out of places to go have fun like this that they can afford! I didn’t get to go much as a kid because I was born into a generation where this was starting to die, my local one’s building was even demolished a few years before the pandemic after things dried up…I can only think of one accessible to me that still exists and that’s in the next state over!
Kids are getting into trouble with authorities left and right for loitering in parking lots (the sheer amount of ‘no loitering’ signs I see these days!) or goofing around in Walmarts, getting nagged about being on their phones or computers all the time…how’s about those people pitch in to get places like these revived for kids to play and have fun (moderately) safely? Unless they just like having things to complain about, and kids are the convenient target? 🤔🙄
It’s up to us to help provide these places so that kids can have a place to blow off steam and socialize with friends.
I was a 70s, skater kid and I use to love when the girls got to ask guys to skate (couples only) met a boy that became my boyfriend for the summer LOL!
@@dana44ism That’s an awesome memory! Couple skate was an interesting event at the rink. Especially if the two were not equally skilled skaters. 😆
Here's my "Yes..I am old" story...the roller rink I went to used to be an ice-skating rink (Baystate Ice Arena)..I used to take ballet lessons upstairs in the building..we used to get yelled at by our instructor when we looked out the window to watch people ice skating...then in the late 70's it closed...then in the 80's it re-opened as a roller rink (Starwheels) ...I have great memories from going there...absolutely loved it...then it eventually closed..and became a family arcade type place for those who had young children..(Fantasy Land) ..I believe that is now closed for good...
Thanks for sharing those memories! Crazy to have such a variety of things go in that building as the years passed.
You forgot Jam On It by Newcleus! We have a skating rink in my town that has been here as long as I can remember (I remember going there as early as 1979). My son, who is now 24, was the last generation of kids to go skating there every Friday night. It isn't that popular like it used to be unfortunately.
That is disappointing. Too bad younger generations just aren’t that enthused about skating.
I never could skate. Always busted my ass every time. So, I never really got to experience this sadly.
There were so many at the rink that had no skating skill, but they laced up anyway just to hang out and socialize.
The sound systems tho
@@dead_inside674 If judging by the system at our local rink, then it was pretty outdated. 😆
I remember one time a blonde kid accidentally bumped into me and I tripped. He probably felt bad and showed me how to use the grenade button on Operation Wolf.
😆 Well that’s probably a suitable restitution.
Roller land in CA …perhaps I had my first kiss or maybe I smoked pot for the first time…I can’t remember
Maybe both?
@@RetroDaze most likely lol
🤣I'm still a Rink Rat...🤷♂️✌️💜🛼
@@robbiegraham5707 It’s still a joy to roller skate if you can find a rink nearby.
that was meeee....❤❤❤🛼🛼🛼 I was lucky enough to have speed races at one of my rinks. I did compete and won a trophy..... ironically it's one of the few.... things I have saved throughout my lifetime 😁
@@mariainman3618 Aww man… that would be such a prized possession. Just awesome. 🏆