Roller Skating Style Through the Years
“Shall We Dance,” 1937 with Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire.
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Roller Skating Style Through the Years
Image Credit: Everett Collection “Shall We Dance,” 1937 with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.
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Roller Skating Style Through the Years
Image Credit: Everett Collection “Idol of the Crowds,” 1937. From left, John Wayne, Russell Hopton.
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Roller Skating Style Through the Years
Image Credit: Everett Collection Roller skating in real life, date unknown.
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Roller Skating Style Through the Years
Image Credit: Everett Collection Joan Crawford at a roller skating party thrown by Ginger Rogers and Alfred Vanderbilt.
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Roller Skating Style Through the Years
Image Credit: Everett Collection “The Skating Vanities,” 1944.
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Roller Skating Style Through the Years
Image Credit: Everett Collection “Monkey Business,” 1952 with Cary Grant and Marilyn Monroe.
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Roller Skating Style Through the Years
Image Credit: Everett Collection “The Lucy Show” with Lucille Ball. ‘Lucy and the Good Skate,’ aired September 21, 1964.
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Roller Skating Style Through the Years
Image Credit: WWD People rollerskating at the Empire Rollerdrome in Brooklyn, New York, 1973.
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Roller Skating Style Through the Years
Image Credit: Everett Collection “Laverne & Shirley,” 1979. From left: Tommy Madden, Jimmy Briscoe, Cindy Williams, Penny Marshall, ‘Take Two, They’re Small’, (Season 5, aired Nov. 22, 1979), 1976-83.
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Roller Skating Style Through the Years
Image Credit: WWD Rollerena, the rollerskating drag queen, at the Studio 54 ‘I Love New York’ Valentine ball, 1979.
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Roller Skating Style Through the Years
Image Credit: WWD Brooke Shields, getting ready to go roller skating, 1979.
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Roller Skating Style Through the Years
Image Credit: Everett Collection “Skatetown USA,” 1979, with April Allen and Patrick Swayze.
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Roller Skating Style Through the Years
Image Credit: Everett Collection “Skatetown USA,” 1979 with Katherine Kelly Lang and Greg Bradford.
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Roller Skating Style Through the Years
Image Credit: Everett Collection “Roller Boogie,” 1979.
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Roller Skating Style Through the Years
Image Credit: Everett Collection “Heaven’s Gate,” 1980. From second left: Jeff Bridges, Isabelle Huppert, Kris Kristofferson/
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Roller Skating Style Through the Years
Image Credit: WWD Guests skate during an event at the Roxy, a roller-skating rink in New York City, on March 14, 1980.
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Roller Skating Style Through the Years
Image Credit: WWD Guests skate during an event at the Roxy, a roller-skating rink in New York City, on March 14, 1980.
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Roller Skating Style Through the Years
Image Credit: WWD Guests skate during an event at the Roxy, a roller-skating rink in New York City, on March 14, 1980.
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Roller Skating Style Through the Years
Image Credit: WWD Brooke Shields (second from left) skates during an event at the Roxy, a roller-skating rink in New York City, on March 14, 1980.
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Roller Skating Style Through the Years
Image Credit: WWD Guests skate during an event at the Roxy, a roller-skating rink in New York City, on March 14, 1980.
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Roller Skating Style Through the Years
Image Credit: WWD Brooke Shields (back right) skates during an event at the Roxy, a roller-skating rink in New York City, on March 14, 1980.
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Roller Skating Style Through the Years
Image Credit: WWD Brooke Shields (right) skates during an event at the Roxy, a roller-skating rink in New York City, on March 14, 1980.
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Roller Skating Style Through the Years
Image Credit: WWD Guests skate during an event at the Roxy, a roller-skating rink in New York City, on March 14, 1980.
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Roller Skating Style Through the Years
Image Credit: WWD Guests skate during an event at the Roxy, a roller-skating rink in New York City, on March 14, 1980.
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Roller Skating Style Through the Years
Image Credit: WWD Guests skate during an event at the Roxy, a roller-skating rink in New York City, on March 14, 1980.
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Roller Skating Style Through the Years
Image Credit: WWD Brooke Shields (center) attends an event at the Roxy, a roller-skating rink in New York City, on March 14, 1980.
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Roller Skating Style Through the Years
Image Credit: WWD Suzy Chaffee skates during an event at the Roxy, a roller-skating rink in New York City, on March 14, 1980.
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Roller Skating Style Through the Years
Image Credit: Everett Collection “Racing With The Moon,” 1984, with Sean Penn.
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Roller Skating Style Through the Years
Image Credit: Everett Collection “Xanadu,” 1980 with Olivia Newton-John and Michael Beck.
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Roller Skating Style Through the Years
Image Credit: Everett Collection “Xanadu,” 1980 with Gene Kelly.
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Roller Skating Style Through the Years
Image Credit: Everett Collection “They All Laughed,” 1981 with Dorothy Stratten.
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Roller Skating Style Through the Years
Image Credit: Everett Collection “Sunday Lovers,” 1980, with Gene Wilder and Kathleen Quinlan.
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Roller Skating Style Through the Years
Image Credit: AP Images Jessica Simpson roller skates at The Roxy in New York, Tuesday, August 29, 2006. Simpson hosted a party at the renown night spot to celebrate the release of her new album, ‘A Public Affair.’
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Roller Skating Style Through the Years
Image Credit: Everett Collection MAD MEN, (from left): John Slattery, Elisabeth Moss, ‘Lost Horizon’, (Season 7, ep. 712, aired May 3, 2015).
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Roller Skating Style Through the Years
Image Credit: AP Images People roller skate on opening day at Flippers Roller Boogie Palace NYC at Rockefeller Center in New York, NY, April 15, 2022. Roller-skating has returned for the first time since the 1940’s at Rockefeller Center.
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Roller Skating Style Through the Years
Image Credit: AP Images People roller skate on opening day at Flippers Roller Boogie Palace NYC at Rockefeller Center in New York, NY, April 15, 2022. Roller-skating has returned for the first time since the 1940’s at Rockefeller Center.
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Roller Skating Style Through the Years
Image Credit: AP Images A young girl does a roller skating trick on opening day at Flippers Roller Boogie Palace NYC at Rockefeller Center in New York, NY, April 15, 2022. Roller-skating has returned for the first time since the 1940’s at Rockefeller Center.
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Roller Skating Style Through the Years
Image Credit: Courtesy of DiscOasis Musician Nile Rodgers opening the DiscOasis in Los Angeles, 2021.
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Roller Skating Style Through the Years
Image Credit: Everett Collection “Stranger Things,” 2022. From left: Finn Wolfhard, Noah Schnapp, Millie Bobby Brown, ‘Vecna’s Curse’, (Season 4, ep. 402, aired May 27, 2022).