Chicago Rink Rats: The Roller Capital in Its Heyday

Released on by Tom Russo
preview-18

  • Chicago Rink Rats: The Roller Capital in Its Heyday Book Detail

  • Author : Tom Russo
  • Release Date : 2017
  • Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
  • Genre : Architecture
  • Pages : 240
  • ISBN 13 : 1625859686
  • File Size : 14,14 MB
DOWNLOAD BOOK

Chicago Rink Rats: The Roller Capital in Its Heyday by Tom Russo PDF Summary

Book Description: By 1950, roller skating had emerged as the number-one participatory sport in America. Ironically, the war years launched the Golden Age of Roller Skating. Soldiers serving overseas pleaded for skates along with their usual requests for cigarettes and letters from home. Stateside, skating uplifted morale and kept war factory workers exercising. By the end of the decade, five thousand rinks operated across the country. Its epicenter: Chicago! And no one was left behind! The Blink Bats, a group of Braille Center skaters, held their own at the huge Broadway Armory rink. Meanwhile, the Swank drew South Side crowds to its knee-action floor and stocked jukebox. Eighteen celebrated rinks are now gone, but rinks that remain honor the traditions of the sport's glory years. Author Tom Russo scoured newspaper archives and interviewed skaters of the roller capital's heyday to reveal the enduring legacy of Chicago's rink rats.

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own Chicago Rink Rats: The Roller Capital in Its Heyday books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.

Chicago Rink Rats

Chicago Rink Rats

File Size : 89,89 MB
Total View : 607 Views
DOWNLOAD

By 1950, roller skating had emerged as the number-one participatory sport in America. Ironically, the war years launched the Golden Age of Roller Skating. Soldi

Open Ice

Open Ice

File Size : 51,51 MB
Total View : 1403 Views
DOWNLOAD

Second only to family, the game of hockey is the tribe to which sports writer Jack Falla passionately belongs. If Home Ice let readers in on the role hockey pla

Detroit's Olympia Stadium

Detroit's Olympia Stadium

File Size : 68,68 MB
Total View : 1029 Views
DOWNLOAD

Also known as the Old Red Barn, Olympia Stadium was the largest rink in the United States when it opened in Detroit on October 22,1927. Robert Wimmer has compil