Before inline skates, how did you keep your roller skates attached to your shoes?

With a key you used to tighten them.


They strapped onto your regular shoes.


Brilliant idea, really.

Before inline skates, how did you keep your roller skates attached to your shoes?
They strapped onto your shoes, usually with leather buckles, or clamps at the toes that you tightened with a skate %26#039;key%26#039;. And, believe it or not, often times the wheels were metal. Here%26#039;s a pic!





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Reply:They had clamps that you used a %26quot;key%26quot; to tighten to the shoes
Reply:CRS
Reply:They were kept on the shoes by a clamp system that had a key that you turned to tighten ot loosen. They had a buckle like a belt buckle.
Reply:Slipped my shoe into a toe part, then strapped a velcro strap at the ankle
Reply:Clamped them onto the shoes and tightened with a skate key. Wore the skate key on a string like a necklace.
Reply:The skate key..................................I wore a key on a blue ribbon around my neck.
Reply:There were clamps on the metal skates that latched onto the


soles of our shoes. These were tightened with a skate key.


We usually wore the skate key on a string around our necks


so we wouldn%26#039;t lose them.
Reply:With my skate key. They had two prongs like thingys on each skate, On the metal ones you just adjusted the prongs in or out to fit your shoe size, No problem. There was also a bolt on the bottom of the skate that you could adjust it lenth wise, if you had a longer foot. I lived on my skates, so I know!!!!!
Reply:With two sets of leather straps, one around the ankle and one over the toes.And you had four wheels instead of two.
Reply:Clamps across the ball of the foot area. Skate key was to adjust these clamps so they fit tightly. And then there was a strap and buckle up by the ankle.
Reply:you tighten it w/a skatekey
Reply:They were a platform you strapped to your shoes
Reply:There were straps from the back of each side of the heel of the skate, they went across your ankle from each side then attached to a buckle in front of your outside ankle bone and there was a clamp on each side of the front part of the skate that attached about where the joint of your little toe attaches to your foot, that was tightened with a key. You needed shoes that had a good sole or the clamps would come off.
Reply:They were tightened with the key of course. But my Foster brothers would make skate boards out of the wheels, small ones... so we didn%26#039;t have to wear hard shoes on a hot summer day! They were so cool back then, I remember one was shaped like a foot with toes and everything, they painted them to look like race cars !! I loved it!


Hugs, Scoot
Reply:A key to tighten them and a strap with a buckle
Reply:Metal plate with 4 wheels and they came with a lengthener that meant no matter what shoe size you were every one could have a go! You tied them on with leather straps....one around the toe area and one around the instep area of your foot.


Had many a skinned knee from mine lol....and generally would fall flat on my face breaking my specs in the process! x



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