Roller Skating in the ‘80s – The 1880s
Apparently, roller skating was a big thing in the metropolous of Leadville, Colorado in the 1880s. Who knew? With all of the historical novels I read, I should have run across this before. But, there it is, in black and white. After a little research, I learned that roller skating was a big thing in all major U.S. cities in the 1880’s. Roller skates had been invented about twenty years before and the technology had improved enough for mass adaptation. Roller skating provided