Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to the Stupid Instrum Minute. I'm your host,
Speaker 1: Kept Pound. Today we're talking about roller rinks. Roller Skating
Speaker 1: became popular in America long before disco ever existed. The
Speaker 1: first patented roller skate was invented in eighteen sixty three
Speaker 1: by James Plimpton of New York. His four wheel design
Speaker 1: made skating easier to control and helped launch the first
Speaker 1: roller rinks across the country. By the early nineteen hundreds,
Speaker 1: roller rinks were popular gathering places, and in the nineteen seventies,
Speaker 1: disco music, flashing lights, and mirrored balls turned them into
Speaker 1: the place to be on a Friday night. Whether you
Speaker 1: left with a new friend or a bruised tailbone, roller
Speaker 1: rinks created memories that still roll on today. This has
Speaker 1: been the Stupid History min it and I'm Kept Pound.
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