ROLLER DAZE
Roller skating reached major-fad status in the 70s. Celebrities from Cher to Hugh Hefner were lacing up their skates and hitting the rink moving and grooving to the tunes of the day. The music scene was being steamrolled by a new sensation called disco.
The nascent disco scene, along with iconic clubs like Studio 54, filtered down to create teenage havens for dancing on skates: the modern roller rink was born. By day, the rink was swarming with kids doing the hokey pokey and the limbo. When the sun went down, the rink was transformed into a foggy-haze of blacklights, spinning disco balls and the pulsating beat of the hits of the day.
2010 - present
2010 - present
Synopsis
Playland was one of those rinks. This mammoth facility contained two, football-sized rinks. It also became the home tof a core group of kids. These misfits, outcasts, stoners and rockers,
were searching for a place to belong. Through the bond of skating at Playland, these kids discovered first loves, heartache, and a family that would endure for the remainder of their lives.
Brought back together after 40-years, these friends have rediscovered their past and those memories that helped shape and guide them. Roller skating gave them a purpose and the ability to fit in and a sense of belonging. But it is their bond and connections formed a lifetime ago at a roller rink that defines who they are today.
Roller Daze is their story; but it the story that exists in all of us. It is a celebration of the journey we all make from adolescents to adulthood.
UNDER CONSTRUCTION - CHECK BACK END OF SUMMER 2014
ROLLER DAZE
From Bell Bottoms to Polyestor - Mostly True Stories of Surviving the Roller Rink in the 1970s.
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