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1. katry Says:

   
   July 10, 2016 at 12:56 pm

   Marty Rubin quote
2. flyboybob Says:

   
   July 10, 2016 at 3:20 pm

   Every kid had roller skates. The ones that attached to the soles of your shoes. They had grippers that adjusted with a skate key. One of my day camp projects was to weave plastic ribbons into a lanyard that had a clip on the end to keep up with your skate key.
   • katry Says:

     
     July 10, 2016 at 4:07 pm

     Bob,
     Those are the skates I described today. I wove gimp into a lanyard with a hook at the end, and that’s where I put my skate key.
3. GnuFOOL Says:

   
   July 10, 2016 at 4:56 pm
   • katry Says:

     
     July 10, 2016 at 5:11 pm

     Gnu,
     I love the clothes and the bands in the girls’ hair. I wore the same thing in mine. Jan and Dean are wearing great shirts.

     A sidewalk surf board, love the name.
4. GnuFOOL Says:

   
   July 10, 2016 at 4:58 pm
   • katry Says:

     
     July 10, 2016 at 5:16 pm

     Gnu,
     I watched Bandstand in the afternoons. It always had great guests. They all really knew how to lip sync, but I figure seeing them was all that mattered.

     I, of course, remember this song well.
5. GnuFOOL Says:

   
   July 10, 2016 at 5:01 pm
   • katry Says:

     
     July 10, 2016 at 5:23 pm

     Gnu,
     I so loved Steve Allen’s program.

     They are really dressed up for this gig. This is neat that they are actually singing live.
6. GnuFOOL Says:

   
   July 10, 2016 at 5:13 pm
   • katry Says:

     
     July 10, 2016 at 5:25 pm

     Gnu,
     It catches air and it catches fire.

     The hover boards of today don’t have as much air underneath, but then that was the future!
7. GnuFOOL Says:

   
   July 10, 2016 at 5:16 pm
   • katry Says:

     
     July 10, 2016 at 6:09 pm

     Gnu,
     Amazing that Lexus built the park just for the hoverboard. What they had to go through just to get it above the track is a bit much.

     Riding it was difficult even for professional skate boarders.
8. minicapt Says:

   
   July 10, 2016 at 5:19 pm

   Well …
   http://www.northjersey.com/story-archives/when-fun-lived-outdoors-skates-were-a-key-ingredient-were-key-to-fun-indoors-and-out-1.549732?page=all

   Cheers
   • katry Says:

     
     July 10, 2016 at 5:36 pm

     minicapt,
     I used to go to a skating rink in Medford, Mass-the Bal-a-roo. By then I was a teenager, and my friends and I made a night of it. We wore skating skirts which were wide so they could swirl. Sadly, though, mine never swirled. I fell so many times my skirt was dirty from the floor.

     Up the street from my house was s mall parking lot no-one ever used. We used to \roller skate there. I remember we’d hold hands and form a snake. Never be at the end! You ended up on the ground from the wide circle.

     Great story!
9. GnuFOOL Says:

   
   July 10, 2016 at 5:21 pm
   • katry Says:

     
     July 10, 2016 at 5:37 pm

     Gnu,
     I remember the skate board from that first film, but I didn’t remember the hover board.
10. GnuFOOL Says:

    
    July 10, 2016 at 5:52 pm
    • katry Says:

      
      July 10, 2016 at 6:03 pm

      Gnu,
      My father loved watching the roller derby. I think it was on Saturday afternoons. I used to watch every now and then. I always thought the derby had a bit of the theater about it.

      I didn’t realize the men and women, er girls and boys, had the same rules.

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