Spectator Skating

Growing up in Superior I was a clutz. Learning to ride a bicycle was an adventure with a lot of crashes! Only when Dick Wall and Tom and Jerry Cooper were enlisted by my mother to help me did I master the balance to ride without mishaps.

The recent flurry of interest in the Simic Roller Skating rink brought back memories of another disaster - roller skating. My experience was at the old skating rink south of the Burlington tracks near the Armour Creamery. I tried to learn to skate without success, but I did hang out at the skating rink where young people congregated. I met my eighth grade firs...