With warmer weather around the corner (hopefully!), my thoughts have turned back to…
…this! Memories that make me wistful. My friends and I roller-skated all day long, back in the day! You?
With warmer weather around the corner (hopefully!), my thoughts have turned back to…
…this! Memories that make me wistful. My friends and I roller-skated all day long, back in the day! You?
alecwally23"And where did you learn the art of not lasting long?" "Here", you answered
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That was always such a happy song back then. What a fantastic job she did on the video.If I may ask, who were the cast. Girl on skates, boy, lady at the door.
I really liked that.
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Glad you liked it! I think it’s great, too! I have no info on the video creator other than the name/link etc. right under the video. Click on it; you might be able to track her down. So well done, for high school, amazing!
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Sorry Ellie. I missed it right in front of my face.
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An adorable video! I never learned to roller skate. We mermaids have enough trouble just walking on land. 🙂
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Yes, it must be hard just walking on your own two f- um… fins??
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Yes! I had those!
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Yay! 😁😁😁
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What a fun video! We had skates, but we didn’t go far. Our wheels were not solid, so you couldn’t roll over gravel. We loved to skate on the concrete porch when it was raining.
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Oh, any such rough surface was out! The smoothest was asphalt, as on the streets. But of course we weren’t allowed to skate there. Shh. 😁
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We did skate in the street! We knew better than to do it on our own, though. On a warm summer evening, our parents would stand in the street with us so that we could skate. Our street happened to be a state highway that led to town, so we wouldn’t have done it in the daytime.
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Eek! You skated on a *highway*?! I don’t feel so daring then, skating on our quiet side roads…
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Our parents were with us on the highway — ALWAYS! During the day there were 18-wheelers, cotton trailers, and mule-drawn wagons speeding or poking down the street.
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Okie-dokie then!
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BNK calling BNPORS! 😀
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Halloooo BNK! (Not so N!) 😁😜
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This was a cute video and I remember that song. I’ve never been roller skating but my mom was an avid roller skater back in the day. Then she was hit by a car at age 11 in 1937 and spent the next four years in Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children. Sadly, her roller skating days were over and every step she took the rest of her life would be painful. But Mom would tell me that the neighborhood kids would walk up the steep St. Claren’s Avenue (in Toronto) and when they got to Dundas Street, they would strap on their skates and go downhill at breakneck speed. She was fearless and I was always a chicken, too afraid for my life. 🙂 (P.S. – I wasn’t so hot on ice skates either.) At Council Point Park, there is a woman, the same age as me, who routinely roller blades. She is petite and whizzes along and sometimes she’ll slow down to roll along at my pace. I wrote about her in this post and you’ll see her photo. She is into yoga and teaches it to senior citizens as well. I may walk four or five miles a day but sometimes I feel like a sloth. https://lindaschaubblog.net/2017/07/21/merrily-we-roll-along/
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Your poor mom!!!!! Ay yi yi!! I wouldn’t have blamed her if she’d been overprotective of you, as a result… Will look at the merrily post now!
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Yes, she was very overprotective of me and one thing I’ll tell you is that she drilled into my head to “LOOK BOTH WAYS BEFORE CROSSING THE STREET!”
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Good advice!!!!
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Sure was. I abided by it too as I had a proof what could happen.
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