{"id":10166,"date":"2024-05-18T19:17:56","date_gmt":"2024-05-18T19:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/storypress.site\/?p=10166"},"modified":"2024-05-18T19:17:56","modified_gmt":"2024-05-18T19:17:56","slug":"are-you-old-enough-to-remember-this-object","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/storypress.site\/?p=10166","title":{"rendered":"Are You Old Enough To Remember This Object?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I see how complex and technological kids\u2019 toys are today, it\u2019s incredible to think that we were perfectly content with much simpler toys and equipment back in the day. Case in point \u2013 a good old pair of roller skates. Long before scooters and trick bikes, kids would get together and go roller skating. And if you weren\u2019t a kid between the 1950s and 1960s, your version of roller skates probably looks quite different.<\/p>\n<p>Roller skating existed as early as the mid 1700s, but it was the baby boomers that really made roller skating become popular. Emerging in the 1950s, a roller skate style consisting of a wooden or metal base with leather straps became the new hot thing.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13199\" src=\"https:\/\/usapress.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2023-01-23-at-7.50.59-PM-300x300.webp\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/usapress.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2023-01-23-at-7.50.59-PM-300x300.webp 300w, https:\/\/usapress.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2023-01-23-at-7.50.59-PM-1024x1019.webp 1024w, https:\/\/usapress.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2023-01-23-at-7.50.59-PM-150x150.webp 150w, https:\/\/usapress.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2023-01-23-at-7.50.59-PM.webp 1280w\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>source: Etsy\/AspenRidge<\/p>\n<p>With these roller skates, the skater kept on the shoes they were wearing and simply stepped onto the skate base. The strap would go around the skater\u2019s ankle, which was essentially the only thing holding the skater\u2019s foot in place other than the very small toe clamp.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13198\" src=\"https:\/\/usapress.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2023-01-23-at-7.56.09-PM-259x300.webp\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 259px) 100vw, 259px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/usapress.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2023-01-23-at-7.56.09-PM-259x300.webp 259w, https:\/\/usapress.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2023-01-23-at-7.56.09-PM-884x1024.webp 884w, https:\/\/usapress.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2023-01-23-at-7.56.09-PM-768x890.webp 768w, https:\/\/usapress.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2023-01-23-at-7.56.09-PM.webp 906w\" alt=\"\" width=\"259\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>source: Etsy<\/p>\n<p>So, what was the key for? The key was for unlocking the base so the skater could adjust the size of the base and fit their feet in accordingly. Though roller skating has never been for the faint of heart, it especially wasn\u2019t back in the 1950s and 1960s!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I see how complex and technological kids\u2019 toys are today, it\u2019s incredible to think that we were perfectly content with much simpler toys and equipment back&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-finance"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Are You Old Enough To Remember This Object? - Story<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/storypress.site\/?p=10166\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Are You Old Enough To Remember This Object? 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