Wheels are in motion to expand roller skating in San Francisco the city’s Church of eight wheels is hosting an event at a second location and it hopes to make it permanent our media partner the San Francisco standard writes about the upcoming event and how it could actually help benefit the city so
Joining us now live is astred Kane a familiar face who wrote the story for the standard thank you again for being here always a pleasure how are you good your sweater looks like a skating rink almost or like a journey that you’re taking very appropriate kind of appropriate right let’s talk right away
About the Church of eight wheels and how they’re behind this effort for those who don’t know exactly what it is tell me what people can expect I mean pretty simple it’s a roller rink for kids and adults alike it’s a fun roller disco and it’s been happening for about a decade
In the uh Filmore District wow I think the church part gets people a little thrown off they think maybe there’s something religious but just religious because people enjoy roller skating so much yeah it’s not an active house of worship it’s just in a former Church on Filmore
And Fel well let’s talk about the group itself because they eyeing the second building in San Francisco what did you learn about the building itself and what the plans are yeah it’s a fantastic building just off Market Street downtown technically it’s in the tender line uh I
Think it was built just prior to the turn of the last century and it survived the 1906 earthquake and fire pretty much intact wow so you can IM imagine this is a very sturdy building so for all of people’s roller skating needs it should
Be all right um we are showing a map of it right now on the screen so everyone can take a look at exactly where it is you know mayor breed she has been a big fan of roller disco we saw her at a popup event last year at the Civic
Center talk about how roller skating could Revitalize this area and also downtown even right it has a lot of potential it’s something for everybody we know the mayor loves a good time and this is just an extension of that there’s the skateboarding at civic center and this just it’s a logical
Followup right everybody loves to strap on a pair of roller skates it’s funny there were talks of revitalizing downtown with a soccer stadium now we’ve got this roller skating opportunity who is behind this effort to bring it to that Bank building in the city yeah a
Soccer stadium might be a little bit pie in the sky right but roller skating has a decades long history in San Francisco courtesy of David Miles this is the The Godfather of skate right he’s been doing this both at the church of eight wheels and at skating place in Golden Gate Park
Right off 8th Avenue oh yes I was just there the other day and it’s still going strong lots of people still interested there and tell everyone when will the bank of eight wheels event take place yeah so right now this is a one-off it’s scheduled for next Friday December 29th
And do we know any thing about the future plans about where this may go is it expected to actually take off I think that’s the idea yeah if if it sells out if it does well if people have a good time I think David is more than open to
Having more events next year and Beyond and last question for you is for you personally what was it like covering this because you are a very fun light-hearted person so I can imagine you may have strapped on some roller skates yourself for this I wish I had
But I’m looking forward to doing it next week for sure Aha and we will get update from you I am sure about that astd Kane always a pleasure having you thank you so much really
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