Who used to roller skate?

[Andrea348]

I was doing some reminiscing today....every saturday in grade school my best friend and i could be found at the local roller skating rink at our skate lessons, then the public free skate from 11-1....we'd have lunch there too...always the same thing...a slice of pizza, soda, and reeses peanut butter cups....mmm.....we both had these corny skate bags and would wear skate skirts and skate covers...lol....THOSE were the days....

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these were what my skates looked like....love the hot pink wheels

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this was my corny bag (the blue one)

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and i wore a corny skirt like this

any one else have some roller skating memories???? good times

[littleflower+JMJ]

man i LOVED skating!!! i use to do that alll the time when i was little--still do.

i will never forget when i fell flat on my behind when I crossed a four-stop intersection in front of several cars either!! hahhaa

i started out with skates........its how i get my today hot skills of blading hehehe

i still love to skate but its blading now--its fun!

[FranciscanRocker25]

we used to have those birthday parties at skating rinks. they were so much fun. we'd get a DJ and request nsync over and over again then fall and laugh at eachother.

[Ash Wednesday]

In the words of Napoleon, "Heck yes I did!"

If you were a teenager/kid in the 70s or 80s like me, then chances are, you roller skated.

My skates looked a little more like [b]Raquel's.[/b] They were the somewhat arcane kind you tied to your own shoes.

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:cheer: Let's hear it for the Roller Derby! :cheer:

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[Ash Wednesday]

We used to watch roller derby on TV.

When I was in college a fellow Gen X-er and I were working on this drawing in class. We drew a roller derby with Daisy Duke skating and the General Lee flying over the stadium. It was so corny compared to everyone else's drawings and we got in trouble for laughing so much. :rotfl:

[Isaiah41:13]

Andrea... you could be the friend that I always went skating with on Saturday mornings. Her name was Andrea as well. Strange coincidence. I had white skates with pink wheels like yours. My friends and I used to go to the Skate Connection every Saturday morning for the freeskate from 11-2. We played limbo on skates and the winner got a free ticket for pizza. Lunch consisted of pizza and pop and ice cream for desert. We did the hokeypokey on skates and so many other things. Wow. I had forgotted about all that. Memories I used to look forward to Saturdays. Skating Saturdays lasted for 2 years...until I was in 4th grade.

Now, I can't even remember the last time I laced up a pair of roller skates.

[Andrea348]

[quote name='Isaiah41:13' date='Apr 16 2005, 06:42 PM'] Andrea... you could be the friend that I always went skating with on Saturday mornings. Her name was Andrea as well. Strange coincidence. I had white skates with pink wheels like yours. My friends and I used to go to the Skate Connection every Saturday morning for the freeskate from 11-2. We played limbo on skates and the winner got a free ticket for pizza. Lunch consisted of pizza and pop and ice cream for desert. We did the hokeypokey on skates and so many other things. Wow. I had forgotted about all that. Memories I used to look forward to Saturdays. Skating Saturdays lasted for 2 years...until I was in 4th grade.

Now, I can't even remember the last time I laced up a pair of roller skates. [/quote]
wow...that is scary.... the hokey pokey and don't forget the alley cat.....my fav's were shoot the duck and backwards skate.....

[Brother Adam]

Roller Skating rocked. I used to go about once a month and try to request Newsboys "Shine" to drive my best friend crazy. I don't go much anymore because of the nasty music they play now. I mean, it was already bad when they would play nsync and backstreet boys, but today man, that horrible stuff out there.

[Tony]

I used to love Roller Derby!!!

I know there were 2 different outfits.. one with the big team being the Los Angeles Thunderbirds as its major team, the other one had the San Francisco Bay Bombers as its major team

then the early 90s came the outfit with the T-birds was rehashsed and called "Rollergames" and they had this figure 8 track with Jumps, a wall they skated up for points (which Mr Mean of the Violators "Fell" off).. and the gator pit. and dont forget the glam rock!

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[jgirl]

I [b]LOVED[/b] skating! Everybody had skating parties! I made a cd recently of all my favorite rolle skating songs, including "Ice Ice Baby" and "Pump Up the Jam"

[jingsmile]

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oh, skating...my friend and i went every saturday too, and i met one of my really good friends at a birthday party my mom had for me there. we used to do the hokey pokey too, and red light green light where the winner won a glowstick. i always wanted that glowstick...

then my friends got some roller blades, and i was awful at that. we used to play tag and i was always it and i could never catch them...good times, good times

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[sweetpea316]

Ah man....good times...
We had a roller skating place in my town called the Texas Skatium, and that was the coolest place to go in middle school. I was there once last year, and it just wasn't the same though... but man, that was fun. I was never that great of a skater though.

[Dudette]

I went roller skating for the first time in my life last year

it was awesome, and we did the hokey pokey...

[Jaime]

I've actually been to the roller derby too! Back in the 80s.

I have absolutely no idea what the rules were but it was a hoot!!!

[littleflower+JMJ]

haaha i hardly rollarskated in the rink......my house has this weird path that goes in a circle so that was my personal nascar "race track"

my family had to indure me skating through the house or outside during those younger years

[nikkan_hanil]

Did it since I was 3. Darn fun to boot.