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When WHAM was big and I wore pink CHOOSE LIFE tees,
and my hair was permed in my brand new orange bubblegum jeans.
I roller skated all day without a care in the world
My favourite summer style memory was the ’80s,
So carefree for a teenage girl.
– Sonia Grieve
Did you roller skate your way through the weekends of the 1980s?
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My sisters and I rollerskated our way through the entire eighties. Up and down the footpath out the front of our house. I had the white high-tops and my sis a handmedown pair of ‘sneaker’ skates that we thought were the height of dagginess. Guess which pair are by far the coolest these days!! x
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I SO wanted white high-tops!
All I ever wanted was a pair of those skates above to wear at the Windsor Skatel! Instead my mum bought me a pair of bright orange pair of those tie on ones – you know the ones that you wear your Apple Pies with? gawd……so embarrassed.
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Oh EMBARRASSMENT!! We all need group roller skating therapy … at our nearest rink!
I can SO relate to the eighties. I spent so much time on my roller skates, I kept wearing down the wheels. Those were the days…
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In my dreams I’m still back there!
DEFINITE summer memory – going skating wearing my favourite mint pedal pushers and matching pastel striped top, the year I was 14 (they didn’t fit the next year). Hey I was cool! (It was 1981 after all…)
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1981 was a very good year – and you would have been rocking that style!
Oh my goodness I LOVE roller skates, I have been tempted for years to buy a pair but I tend to have more of a fear of falling these days then I as a youngster 🙂
Hope your having a fantastic holiday!
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We certainly didn’t worry about any potential broken bones or bruised bottoms back in the day, did we?
I still have my roller skates, they are exactly like the ones in the pic above. I doubt I will ever wear them again, but I just cannot bear to part with them! Just thinking about all that 80s rollerskating makes me smile 🙂
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Wear them! You must!! One of my friends had her 40th at a skate rink (I know she’ll come commenting here today!!) – was the best fun.
Yep, here I am – a day late because I didn’t check in yesterday. Oh my god, my heart is racing just remembering those days – skating WAS the backdrop to my teenage years – first real kiss, the clothes, the fun, the music, choking on my first cigarette beside the rink before we were locked in, friends, cute boys. It was wonderful – still remember the freedom and joy of everyone having fun. And yes, it was me that had my 40th at a skate rink and it was still FUN. Of course, now I do worry about breaking something but I would love to go more often – if only people would come with me.
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Oh, YAY! You’re here. We should go skating together. Without the teenagers to laugh at us!
I still have my roller skates! white boots with hot pink wheels and detailing. I love them too much to ever get rid of them although I have not gone for a roll for a few years…. I remember dancing to Agadoo (doo doo push pinapple) at the Skateway each week and trying and failing to skate backwards… xxpt
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Oh, I’m so JEALOUS! Get them out today and go for a skate!!
The local shopping centre in our small Hunter Valley town was closed on a Sunday so the PCYC used to host “Roller Disco’s” in the underground car park. Rock and roll!!! We thought we were so very cool.
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So, so cool! At Hervey Bay it was open air on the Esplanade and we’d wear our shoes so they could get strapped to the skates with industrial-sized rubber bands. SO COOL!