Toughest Class I Took

I grew up in Greeley and we lived on 4th street when I discovered Warnoco. I collected pop bottles to finance my roller skating adventures. Loved the organ music, the buzzer, the lighting, and the happy smell of the place. My 11th birthday party was at Warnoco and kids from Cameron Elementary came. I continued to skate without any instruction up through high school just for fun with friends. In 64, I bought set of wheels from Mr. Norcross to put on my new idea of building a skate board in GHS's woodshop class. Back then you built your board as they were not yet at Seargent's sporting goods on 8th Ave. In 1966, I enlisted during the Vietnam war era. When I returned to Greeley three years later I enrolled at CSC (now UNC). They listed the PE choices and there was "rollerskating". I thought it was going to be a breeze. Warnoco was the site and the challenge was improve on basic skills, to learn tricks and jumps, we rarely skated forward and this was the toughest class that semester. I am very glad that the building is still used for kids.