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Back in the time when roller boots with a wheel at each corner were first popular there seemed to be a craze for Roller Disco's. Our local one was in the gymnasium of the local YMCA and consisted of an entry fee of about 25p, nominal hire of sweaty roller boots if you didn't own your own and a couple of hundred similar aged kids skating round in a circle for a couple of hours to a DJ playing the latests tunes in a dark corner. There was always the one or two show-offs who could skate backwards and do tricks. My "trick" was NOT getting onto the end of the traditional last tune conga and doing a Frank Spencer through the double doors.

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  • Anonymous user
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    Those were the days with the double session at the Magnet Leasure centre in Maidenhead. All the gang had their Bauers with either Veriflex wheels or if you wanted to really flash and do hockey stops you just had to have Belair Hockey's. Long live the 80's. JWP we miss you.
  • Anonymous user
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    God I remember my roller boots, black and yellow they were. I used to go to the roller disco with my mates for many years. Had a great time, I had my boots for many years after and gave them to my niece a few years ago, she loves them. Gonna get myself some more and take her skating with me, ahhh the good old days:o)
  • Anonymous user
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    i had a pair of roller boots,they were bright blue with red flames going up either side.god i miss those boots i remember racing my friends around the block back in the 80's.& a couple of years ago i came across the same pair in a charity shop for £5 that i had to have still got them somewhere am gonna have to dig them out & have a skate,the good old days.**
  • Anonymous user
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    Dudes with Jerry curls, other dudes with mullets, ghetto blasters, fat leg warmers over skates, Skating backwards down the road at high speed in time to a phat eighties track being played, Sims wheels, crop tops... aah the power of quads.
  • Anonymous user
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    I was a regular of the Nevada in Bolton too....and remember those Lime milkshakes! yuck! ha I had my first proper kiss with this 20 year old lorry driver from Bolton....aargh! and I was barely 13 at the time! He gave me a lovebite and my parents went ape! Me and my mates used to go skating there every Saturday without fail plastered in make up and wearing our ra-ra skirts/jumper dresses, gold belts and plastic earrings/bangles...and skate to the great '80's tunes on the huge video screens. I remember ABC's 'Look of Love' and Adam & The Ants' and various other TOTP videos being shown. We all used to try and sneak up to the bar for a sly Lager & Lime, but I used to chicken out and only ordered pints of Lemonade as I thought the police might raid the place and arrest me! ha How foolish I was! Great times, fantastic atmosphere, friendly staff and customers...and loads of (fairly) fit lads! What more could us girls want?! Happy days! I was sad when I heard it had burnt down :( Still I have those wonderful memories.... Dawn x
  • Anonymous user
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    can anyone remember the craze of putting football boots on your skate plates?? they use to do quick release plates with a t-bar on so you could take your wheels off really quick but a cant remeber what they are called, something like bowing or bowan, any ideas ??
  • Anonymous user
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    ok, im desperate to go back there , i now am teaching my 5 year old but need 2nd hand size 13 kids boots HELP X
  • Anonymous user
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    I remember going to the roller disco in bolton called Nevada(that one burnt down) The owner had a nervous breakdown and torched the place!!! My grandad worked on the door and my mum worked in the Milk Bar upstairs, they used to do a Lime Milkshake(sounds horrible but really delicious)
  • Anonymous user
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    Yeh roller boots! still got mine, used to go to the roller disco every weekend, oh I tried so hard to skate backwards but could never do it. Great times.
  • Anonymous user
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    we had a roller disco which i use to go to every thursday friday saturday i use to hate wearing their boots tho stinky sweaty boots, i got use to skating backwards and the place burnt down. blimey 25p to get in and 25p for the hire of the boots lol brill memories

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