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Toys

Roller Skate
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Roller Skates

Just as people were starting to get used to dodging Space Hoppers on the streets, roller skates arrived to put the fear of God back into pedestrians everywhere.

Forget the rollerblades of today - there was only one way to go on Seventies skates - straight and fast, and the only way to stop was to hit a lamppost.

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