Or This Music?
Uncle Al
Roller Skating
Roller Skating
Kilted Organist/Musician
Grand Musician of the Grand Lodge, I.O.O.F. of Texas 2008-2025
When asked 'Why the Kilt?'
I respond-The why is F.T.H.O.I. (For The H--- Of It)
Grand Musician of the Grand Lodge, I.O.O.F. of Texas 2008-2025
When asked 'Why the Kilt?'
I respond-The why is F.T.H.O.I. (For The H--- Of It)
Re: Roller Skating
God be with the days before personal I-players & headsets. When I was a student in Dublin the only skating available to us was at The Rink where we borrowed skates and did it first clockwise, then anti-clockwise, changing every 30 minutes to recorded music.
We didn't have the luxury of a Wurlitzer, let alone a genius to play it. There was only one public Wurlitzer in Town....at the Theatre Royal, which showed a film, a cabaret and an organ-driven, words-on-screen sing-song, continuous daily three times round.
It didn't last. The City Council in their infinite wisdom pulled the old theatre down and replaced it with THE most ugly concrete 13-storey monstrosity which fifty years on they want to pull down now!
Meanwhile the Celtic Tiger provided us with an amazing new theatre not many blocks away, designed by Liebeskind and a real jaw-dropper, at which I took my grandchildren to the show 'Snow White on Ice', which was a skated ballet on the large stage which they froze over!
In the meantime the young things do rollerblading all over the pedestrian areas & parks listening to their own outrageous noise through their headphones.......
T.
We didn't have the luxury of a Wurlitzer, let alone a genius to play it. There was only one public Wurlitzer in Town....at the Theatre Royal, which showed a film, a cabaret and an organ-driven, words-on-screen sing-song, continuous daily three times round.
It didn't last. The City Council in their infinite wisdom pulled the old theatre down and replaced it with THE most ugly concrete 13-storey monstrosity which fifty years on they want to pull down now!
Meanwhile the Celtic Tiger provided us with an amazing new theatre not many blocks away, designed by Liebeskind and a real jaw-dropper, at which I took my grandchildren to the show 'Snow White on Ice', which was a skated ballet on the large stage which they froze over!
In the meantime the young things do rollerblading all over the pedestrian areas & parks listening to their own outrageous noise through their headphones.......
T.
Carpe Diem......Seize the Day !
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Re: Roller Skating
MAYBE. I might have, but we didn't have live music in the area I grew up. Just to poor and the houses struggled to stay open. They did canned music over loud speakers, sometimes with a caller/DJ. The rink closest to me was tore down to put a freeway through town. A sorry day for us.
I did skate at a few bigger city rinks while in the Navy and some had an organ. The tune seems a little familiar, but not sure anymore. A long time ago...
One memory that changes the subject a little, was in California I skated on my first plastic floor. To slick to my liking.
Tom
I did skate at a few bigger city rinks while in the Navy and some had an organ. The tune seems a little familiar, but not sure anymore. A long time ago...
One memory that changes the subject a little, was in California I skated on my first plastic floor. To slick to my liking.
Tom