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Photo shoot with Alexis (MM# 1858642). Makeup by Cindy Star (MM #2136483). Lighting was with one Alien Bee 800 with a 22" white beauty dish. Occasionally some sun for rim.
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Rosie Rebel as the Rolles Skating Waitress Trish in the Rachel Trachtenburg Morning Show @ The Green Room
Photo shoot with Alexis (MM# 1858642). Makeup by Cindy Star (MM #2136483). Lighting was with one Alien Bee 800 with a 22" white beauty dish. Occasionally some sun for rim.
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File name: 06_10_009578
Title: Hollywood Rollerbowl, World's greatest rollerskating rink
Date issued: 1930 - 1945 (approximate)
Physical description: 1 print (postcard) : linen texture, color ; 3 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.
Genre: Postcards
Subject: Commercial facilities
Notes: Title from item.
Collection: The Tichnor Brothers Collection
Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department
Rights: No known restrictions
Oliver + S pattern, Lisette fabric
blogged here: walkingwhimsy.wordpress.com/2015/10/13/rollerskate-dress/
Seen just inside the North Rim entrance of Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona. The Aspen were just stunning. I will post more photos of them.
If you don't understand the title listen to Roger Miller on YouTube at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=skFWsc_-i14
Photo shoot with Alexis (MM# 1858642). Makeup by Cindy Star (MM #2136483). Lighting was with one Alien Bee 800 with a 22" white beauty dish. Occasionally some sun for rim.
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Oliver + S Roller Skate tunic (fabric Indian Summer collection from Sarah Watson)
Shorts from a Japanese sewing book (borrowed from a friend)
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This was taken when we lived in Plano, so I think it was 1981 or 82. Me on left, Erica on right in pink!
Source unknown, but I laughed that these roller disco devils all seem to have different songs playing on their boomboxes. A cacophony of competing tunes is their real threat, in other words.
Old Roller Skates
Recently, my Dad found my old roller skates stored away in a box of old toys in his workshop attic. When he and my Mom gave them to me, I remember chuckling as I thought of myself as a roller skating "Gram" and said, "WOW! To think I USE to skate!"
I, then, stuck the vintage skates back, for some unknown reason. I hid the skates in the garage cabinet for safe-keeping with the intention, I guess, of showing them to my grand kids, SOMEDAY... I had NO plan of roller skating again.
I noted the old skate key still connected to the adjustable bolt and remember wishing that key would unlock my old joints and allow me to be limber again!
The photo challenge theme: A FAVORITE TOY caused me to remember my old skates in hiding, this past weekend... I thought, THIS is that, RAINY DAY that was meant to show off my timeless toy. Little did I know, way back then, that I'd ever be using my old skate key again and putting the chunky metal roller skates on the tiny feet of my granddaughters!
I'm pretty sure that I got the skates when I was 7 yrs old...when living in Ft. Smith, Arkansas.
I DO remember back that far and also remember our driveway, that I learned to skate in. I remember my Dad walking behind me, holding me up from behind, gripping my under-arms, steading me as I learned to balance.
As I watched my granddaughters today, I do remember that I was a quick learner and loved skating, fast! I clomped around in the grassy yard, wearing the skates at play as often as I raced up and down from carport to driveway.
It wasn't long after learning to skate, that I also learned to ride my bike without training wheels. My Dad was there for me then, too, steadying my balance, holding on to the back of my bike seat to guide me, running... right-along-side of me, as I got the feel for pedaling and balance.
Now, I understand, even if my Dad didn't back then, why he held on to this particular childhood toy.
Learning to ride a bike, as well as learning to balance on roller skates, is every kid's rite of passage.
I never had thought of it this way before...but when we learn to ride a bike, or race on skates, the wheels of these toys, allow us the freedoms to move away from our parents grasp. When a child learns to freewheel it, he enjoys the freedoms of being on one's own for the first time.
I HAVE NEVER forgotten the face of my Dad, as I looked back when realizing I was riding my bicycle on my own...I felt confusion as I saw fear in my Dad's eyes and not pride in me. Now, 50 years later, I understand; my Dad didn't want to let go of me...
That rite of passage, growing from being,"Daddy's little girl" to growing into a school-aged girl, is also a rite of passage for parents. Just as there are "boo-boos" when you learn to ride a bike...parents get bruised & scraped when learning to let GROW and let go.
My Dad's face had looked sad as he let go of my bike seat and allowed me to ride away from him. As I learned balance and freedoms for the first time, my Dad was learning to let go.
These well-worn skates that my parents gave me, 50 years after my childhood, were a reminder to them of their parenting of me as well as their memories of having to let go of my childhood hands...
Little did I know way back in the early 60's that the same skates I played in, would be pulled out of storage and worn by my 4 & 8 yr old granddaughters almost 50 yrs later...
As a grandparent, I, too, have gotten to hold little hands and to teach and help find the perfect balance... as I pray.
Praying that I find the healthy balance between protecting & hovering over my children. I pray that I be a worthy teacher of my grandchildren's little minds and help direct in the right paths all those little feet.
Deborah V.
1/22/2014