Hey, Helen...I just think your revealed the "secret" to taking and passing a test!!! LOL!!!

This ice scrapping and pouring water down is blowing me away!

Figureskates,

Please introduce yourself to me at the party...I will be with the Protopopovs and my pairs partner (you can't miss us!) Let's take a stroll down memory lane right after the party and reminise. DOESN'T THAT HALLWAY IN LAKE PALCID WITH ALL OF THOSE PICTURES REMIND YOU OF THE "SHINNING" WITH JACK NICHOLSEN AND SHELLY DUVALE?!

Okay, I REMEMBER MY FIRST CAMEL SPIN! I was about 12 years old and it was that skating rink that I had mentioned above, the Fritz Dietel skating rink, and my coach's name was Mr. Kokich. He was Russian, but this was around 1969. So, my question is what was he doing here??? How did I get so lucky to have him??? He was the only coach who could teach me how to do anything! I've only been coached by Russians ever since--there was no turning back for me.

If the Zamboni breaks down for any length of time, they still have to scrape and flood the ice by hand. Our rink keeps a dedicated hose for just that purpose - there's a large notice to explain that it's not suitable for firefighting!

I remember skating at a tiny circular rink on the Champs Elysées in Paris - the first time I ever skated. Would have been in the early 1970s. The rink has long since demised, and I am not sure whether either of the other two rinks that a gang of us went (as "public skaters", of course) that year are still in existence, either.

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Ice dancers have lovely big curves!

I remember skating the Thursday afternoon public at the old Glacier Falls rink in Anaheim. It's long gone but the club still carries the name. My parents could not affort skating lessons for me so I tried to learn by eavesdropping on the private lessons that were being given. At that age (which was 8 or 9), I didn't understand why the coaches were annoyed! I managed to learn a waltz jump and a one foot spin that way.

I think I remember the music guy playing Crosby, Stills & Nash.

I remember rotary dial phones before touch tone. They were all black, no color. Remember what it felt like dialing!

I remember when you picked up the phone and the operator would ask you for the number of the party you wish to reach.

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Hey! I skated at Fritz Dietl's during the 1980's. I spoke with his wife last month; she's a lovely woman. He was quite a character, and he was always nice to me because of my coach (the famous Bibi!) and because I was a nice german girl. He actually stood up for me on an open freestyle when a snotty punk doing triples was trying to kill me. Although, I think he just didn't want to refund my admission. Just kidding!

I also skated at the original Sky Rink, when it was actually up in the sky...

I remember using lacquer to waterproof the soles of your skates. Messy and it smelled nasty. I know some people still do this, but most have switched to polyur. and sno-seal.

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Linda Fratiani Hey lovepairs, Thanks for the complement , I skated with Linda Fratiani in Disney on Ice for about a year then she married the barrel jumper in the show... I had such a crush on her..Still got a picture of us back stage. She was the Blue fairy ( " And Hot " ) . I went of to do other productions but at least i have a great picture...

Get out of here, Isk8NYC! Wow! So, do you remember the following people from Fritz Dietle's rink:

Julie Savino
Brian Savino
Stephen Savino
Arty (the Zamboni guy-Julie's Husband)
Mark Nelson

I skated at the old SKY RINK, too! I was there from about 1979-1983. Do you remeber:

Mark Hominuke
John Curry
Kathleen Henly
Joseph Scherer

WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Do we know each other???

So, why didn't you ask her out, you moron!!! Oh, brother, I can see you just pinning away for her and doing nothing about it! I remember the barrel guy, and you are a way hotter ticket then the barrel guy!!!

Year I pinned for about a year on that show but I was out classed and shy....
Thanks honey but he was a former US skier and his dad had a ski resort in Sun Vally I think. I think Linda is still teaching up there and she has a daughter i think.. don't know if she is still married but Im sure she is still hot.

His Dad had the ski resort, but you had the accent!

Thanks Lovey .. your such a star..

You might still have a chance! Linda is divorced as of August 2001 and shares custody of their daughter!

http://www.goldenskate.com/forum/showthread.php?t=112

Assuming she's still single, go get her, Tiger!!! GROWL!!! LOL!!!

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11-04-2006: Shredded "Pre-Bronze FS for Life" Club Membership card!!!
Silver Moves is the next "Mission Impossible"
(Dare I try for Championship Adult Gold someday???)

Thank you for the support, you guys!!!

okay this wasnt that long ago but i have change alot in skating since but...
i remember... the first time i tried out with my dance partner in a freestyle dress with horrible leg streches and even worse posture...needless to say we have gotten a bit better over the years i also remember our first free dance a couple of 3 turns and cross cuts...ahhh have times ever changed!

Yes! (I hated dialing zero, it took forever for the stupid thing to rotate all the way around and back) My grandma still has her rotary dial phone. It is actually light blue.

I remember....(as I was driving 3 1/2 hours north to skate pairs last weekend) when gas was $0.59/gallon at the time I learned to drive. ... but for the love of the sport, it was worth every penny!

Rotary phones? You mean these things?



This is found at the basement of my husband's parent's home! It's connected to a computer that has a VERY, VERY old Windows (95) OS too! Can't believe I can still read skatingforums.com on their computer too!

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11-04-2006: Shredded "Pre-Bronze FS for Life" Club Membership card!!!
Silver Moves is the next "Mission Impossible"
(Dare I try for Championship Adult Gold someday???)

Thank you for the support, you guys!!!

ME TO! I remember our number was 184 ! Being in a rural area, the Operator knew everybody by their voice and everybody's business

Sk8pdx: Gas was $0.25 a gallon when I started to drive and my first vehicle was a Honda 50 that got 50 MPG. I could visit my friend in the city (50 miles away) and come home again for $0.50 worth of gas. Of course I could only go 45 MPH! Now I spend $150 a week to commute to work.

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Starskate,

This might be it! Give her a call. You having nothing to loose--right? This might be the thing that turns everything around for you. Men don't know this, but woman are dying of lonliness, all of us, just waiting for our skating man to come along.

Boyfriend, if you are not afraid to do Axels, Doubles, and a Back Flip, you certainly have the guts to pick up your "rotary" phone and dial her number.

We will all be supportive of you. And if you start dating her, then we all get to meet her!!! I sware to god, she's probably just sitting around dying of lonliness.

Ours was, too - in fact, I don't even think it had any 3-turns in it, just a couple of Mohawks. All of a minute long. We had planned to test it, but somehow that never happened, and we ended up with a proper 1'30" dance that lasted us for two years and, the second year, finished with a lift! That was all of last season..... we have a new dance for this year.

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As do I! We didn't get a phone with a dial on it until the 1960s. My parents' telephone number is still based on the original 3-digit number we used then. And a 3-minute trunk call then probably cost more, in equivalent terms, than it costs to make a similar-length call on your mobile from abroad!

And it wasn't until the 1970s that all calls could be dialled - and international dialling was introduced, which (I was living in Paris at the time) transformed the situation when ringing home!

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I remember skating on a rink that had a big organ and a live organist!

I don't know which one it was. Maybe the one that used to be next to the old Madison Square Garden in Manhattan?

Although I've never skated there myself, I've heard that the rink at South Mountain Arena in New Jersey used to have an organ and a live organist as well.

That is true. I skated there when they played...it was really cool...

Nothing like playing with the "Wayback" machine to conjure up memories I hadn't thought of in decades!

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My old rink still does and the guy plays during the Tuesday night public session.

http://www.paramounticeland.com/index.htm

When I was little and skating in colorado we used cassette tapes, but my rink had Charlie Tickner during the peak his career. We just loved to watch him skate.

When I moved to Dallas our 5.30 am free skate always started off with a rousing, "Back in Black" our rink was a fomer indoor soccer arena, the ends slanted like 20 degrees so doing loops was fun especially get back up the incline.

Our ranch still has rotary phones and when I was a child, 5 or 6 you would have to climb the pole and clip the wires on to make a call. To this day, if we call 911 we have to give them directions because we are 25 miles from anywhere.

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