When you think of roller skating you may not know about the rich history it has in the African-American community. Skating has played a significant role in the Black culture since the late 1950s ...

Highlights include the opening of a comedy in Fairfield, the establishment of Pacifica as a new city, a doll fashion show in Santa Cruz, the National Roller Skating Championships in Oakland ...

One of the favored features of the newly remodeled rink were the free skating lessons offered to children, teens and young ...

It has been the venue for countless birthday parties, unsupervised teenage meetups and weekly flexing for experienced skaters ...

Lots of lessons in skating.” I began skating in the mid-1950s. I had outdoor roller skates, but I loved going to the local roller rink just outside of Washington, D.C., with all my friends.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - Back in the 1950s, skating rinks allowed one night per week for the Black community to skate. During this time, places were still segregated, so skate night grew in popularity ...

FOND DU LAC – Roller skating was long a pastime in Fond du ... Another popular type of event at the Majestic brought the 1950s to the 1980s with a sock hop, advertising a night of doing the ...

Roller skating rinks are a distant memory for those ... Decades earlier, starting in the 1950s, Skateland operated for a spell at 1056 King St. in Charleston. The new outdoor skating rink in ...

The Schenley Park Skating Rink will offer roller skating sessions this summer for the first time since opening 50 years ago.

Las patinatas, which translates to “the skating,” dates back to the 1950s and involves people roller skating all night and then making their way to church for a 5am or 6am Mass from 16 to 24 ...