May name is Edna Davoll; I live in Bronx, New York and I’m 81 years old. One of my favorite things to do is roller skating. I started as a young girl in Columbus, South Carolina. At the time, the rinks were segregated so we had a particular road in Columbus, South Carolina
That we would skate during the Christmas holidays. During that time they were the metal skates with the key and you could adjust it and adjust the skates to your shoe; and it was rough, but we didn’t realize it ’cause we never skated on anything else.
Back in 1980, the rinks were filled to capacity, music was good and everybody had good attitudes and was there to enjoy. We would go four and five times a week because they had so many skating rinks at that time. Currently, I try to go at least twice a week.
When I’m skating it’s such a joy. It’s like your heart rate goes up and you feel like you had a good workout afterwards. Unfortunately, so many rinks have closed down within the last ten/fifteen years. I just hope somewhere along the way that some organization will come and re-open
Some of the rinks for the younger kids, so that they can have the pleasure that I had. I’m gonna go until I can’t go anymore. Please welcome the Queen of the Rink, Edna. You look good. Hey baby. Oh You’re adorable. Now what do you get our of skating that keeps your groove? It keeps me groovy; it keeps me moving; it gets my heart rate going; when you leave the skating rink you feel like you have no worries in the world.
Right, ’cause you’re on a natural high. Natural high. Natural high. Natural high. I adore you Love you. We have little surprise for you. We want to keep you rolling so, Impala Roller Skates is hooking her up with the most tricked out, look at these, the most tricked out skates like ever. They have light-up wheels, they got leopard print, they got any color you can think of. Oh, you’re kidding. The whole rainbow. You’re gonna look like hotty! Hotty!
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