Anyone like Roller Skating out there...?

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Anyone like Roller Skating out there...?

Postby Dog_ger » Sun Oct 14, 2012 5:39 pm

Just had delivered a great pair of Quad Roller Skates and am itch'n to go.

Haven't done it for 35 years but used to enjoy St Clair roller skating back in the 70's.

Will probably break my neck.

But looking for similar interested persons to quad skate along Sema4 to outa harbour...?

For fitness & fun. :D

Let's start sunday mornings... :D

Show your interest. :D

Maybe starting some sort of club?
Smile :)

It's only Money $$$ :)

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Re: Anyone like Roller Skating out there...?

Postby Strawb » Sun Oct 14, 2012 6:06 pm

Since I brought the kids Roller blades I been itching to get back on a pair. I recently brought myself a pair and am starting to skate.
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Re: Anyone like Roller Skating out there...?

Postby Dogwatcher » Sun Oct 14, 2012 7:16 pm

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Re: Anyone like Roller Skating out there...?

Postby Pseudo » Sun Oct 14, 2012 7:57 pm

Don't forget the Sony Walkman clipped to the belt :lol:



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Re: Anyone like Roller Skating out there...?

Postby Footy Chick » Sun Oct 14, 2012 8:13 pm

I was a Downtown girl myself - Saturday morning sessions from 9am-12pm and then my figure skating lesson afterwards.

DOn't have my skates anymore though :(

I've still got it though, there used to be a place called Skate FX in Pooraka and they had a skating rink - we used to go down there and have a skate while her kids played on the skateboard track :lol:
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Re: Anyone like Roller Skating out there...?

Postby GWW » Sun Oct 14, 2012 8:33 pm

What year did "Downtown" shut down? I assume "Tilt" was closed at the same time.
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Re: Anyone like Roller Skating out there...?

Postby Footy Chick » Sun Oct 14, 2012 8:44 pm

Good question, either 87 or 88 I reckon..

Actually, maybe it was a bit later - I know it was still operating when the myer centre opened because you could use Dazzle Land tokens at Downtown I think.

Useless information of the day: The very first Dazzle Land tokens are collectors items - mainly for the reason that ""Myer" was spelt "MYRE" on the back of the tokens. True story.
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Re: Anyone like Roller Skating out there...?

Postby GWW » Sun Oct 14, 2012 8:53 pm

As a kid, I used to think that "Downtown" song was dedicated to Downtown in Hindley Street :oops:
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Re: Anyone like Roller Skating out there...?

Postby Pseudo » Sun Oct 14, 2012 10:24 pm

GWW wrote:As a kid, I used to think that "Downtown" song was dedicated to Downtown in Hindley Street :oops:


You too huh? I remember it was used on a TV ad for a duty-free shop of the same name. Wasn't that also in Hindley St?

What year did "Downtown" shut down? I assume "Tilt" was closed at the same time.


In 1988 it moved (minus the roller skating rink) closer to King William street, in the same building as the HJs. I worked in that HJs from the day it opened early in '88. I don't remember how long Downtown lasted in that location but it wasn't for long. The HJs outlasted it.

I think Tilt was still operating at the time. Can't be sure. I remember when they had $1 for 1 hour all-you-can-play sessions on the upper deck. 8)
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Re: Anyone like Roller Skating out there...?

Postby smac » Sun Oct 14, 2012 10:30 pm

Tilt was open in 2003, closed either that year or the year after. Spent some lunches playing big buck hunter!
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Re: Anyone like Roller Skating out there...?

Postby smac » Sun Oct 14, 2012 10:30 pm

Edit... May not have been the original tilt, but was definitely tilt.
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Re: Anyone like Roller Skating out there...?

Postby Rik E Boy » Sun Oct 14, 2012 11:35 pm

Footy Chick wrote:I was a Downtown girl myself - Saturday morning sessions from 9am-12pm and then my figure skating lesson afterwards.

DOn't have my skates anymore though :(

I've still got it though, there used to be a place called Skate FX in Pooraka and they had a skating rink - we used to go down there and have a skate while her kids played on the skateboard track :lol:


Hated Downtown. Eastwood was the place to skate. Didn't mind Hindmarsh either.

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Re: Anyone like Roller Skating out there...?

Postby GWW » Sun Oct 14, 2012 11:53 pm

Whilst living in Port Lincoln as a kid in the 1970's, I remember during school holidays, walking with my brother and a few other kids, out to the roller skate centre, which was a few km's out of town. It may have been where the marina is now.
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Re: Anyone like Roller Skating out there...?

Postby Psyber » Mon Oct 15, 2012 11:12 am

I used to roller skate a lot as a kid, and moved on to ice skating in my teens and 20s when there was a rink in the city.
Ice skating wasn't bad for picking up girls then either - you could start out helping them stay upright initially. ;)

I have an impulse now, even at my age, to try roller blades, but I figure I'd better get my weight down a bit more before I try it.
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Re: Anyone like Roller Skating out there...?

Postby HH3 » Mon Oct 15, 2012 11:27 am

I grew up in Darwin and we went to the skate rink there until 1998. In one corner there was a lip thing where you could skate up the wall. Used to play red rover and have backwards skating races and win prizes.

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Re: Anyone like Roller Skating out there...?

Postby Lightning McQueen » Mon Oct 15, 2012 2:24 pm

So no one's going skating with Dog_ger?
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Re: Anyone like Roller Skating out there...?

Postby Dogwatcher » Mon Oct 15, 2012 2:25 pm

I think Strawb was keen ;)
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Re: Anyone like Roller Skating out there...?

Postby Lightning McQueen » Mon Oct 15, 2012 2:31 pm

Dogwatcher wrote:I think Strawb was keen ;)


Of course he would be, he's interstate.
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Re: Anyone like Roller Skating out there...?

Postby Strawb » Mon Oct 15, 2012 2:48 pm

Lightning McQueen wrote:
Dogwatcher wrote:I think Strawb was keen ;)


Of course he would be, he's interstate.

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Postby Dogwatcher » Mon Oct 15, 2012 2:50 pm

:lol:
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