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<v Speaker 1>Hello, and welcome to the Stupid Instrum Minute. I'm your host,

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<v Speaker 1>Kept Pound. Today we're talking about roller rinks. Roller Skating

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<v Speaker 1>became popular in America long before disco ever existed. The

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<v Speaker 1>first patented roller skate was invented in eighteen sixty three

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<v Speaker 1>by James Plimpton of New York. His four wheel design

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<v Speaker 1>made skating easier to control and helped launch the first

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<v Speaker 1>roller rinks across the country. By the early nineteen hundreds,

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<v Speaker 1>roller rinks were popular gathering places, and in the nineteen seventies,

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<v Speaker 1>disco music, flashing lights, and mirrored balls turned them into

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<v Speaker 1>the place to be on a Friday night. Whether you

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<v Speaker 1>left with a new friend or a bruised tailbone, roller

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<v Speaker 1>rinks created memories that still roll on today. This has

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<v Speaker 1>been the Stupid History min it and I'm Kept Pound.

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