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Revisiting the Roller Disco Era in 1980s Los Angeles

A dazzling new book celebrates Flipper’s Roller Boogie Palace — best described as “Studio 54 on wheels.”

Back in the 1940s, a young boy named Bill Butler waited every week for the one night that Black folks could skate at Arcadia Roller Rink in Detroit. Mastering the classic American pastime that combined sport and dance, Butler would go on to become t...

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