Remembering Nights At The Skating Rink In The '70s, '80s, & '90s

That feeling when you take off your skates and put on your sneakers and take a couple steps, like a new born deer.😂

This has become one of my favorite channels on YouTube. Thanks for always providing me with a brief escape from reality.

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!

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!!

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!👍🏻🇺🇲

80’s kid here! Loved when our school would have skate nights! I would always do the speed skates competition! So fun! Loved skating

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.

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.

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! 👍🏻

Mirror ball, double Dutch bus! Fun times, friend!

USA skate in Columbus, Ohio!! We had everything in this video!!

Birthday parties and my dad's Monday Night Employee Skate Nights

The only thing I got from the roller rink was a sore butt. I eventually just hung out at the video games and pinball 🤣

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.

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...

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 😊

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!

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? 🤔🙄

The rink at 2:35 is in Cleveland, I'm from northeast Ohio! :) Thanks for this video.

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...