Throughout history, skating rinks became the primary site for budding artists to showcase their talent, network with other artists and test how marketable their music could be by testing it with skaters. The ties between skating and culture, specifically Black culture and hip-hop culture, are intricate and intimate. It’s a culture thing, but it helps you learn, (helps you) create friendships.” “It creates an environment for kids to go, and it’s an outlet for a lot of people. Louis that a lot of people have stories to tell (about).” “For me, hearing those kinds of stories of how people have been going to Skate City for 20 years, they came there when they were kids, some people are younger, some people are older, I think is monumental for culture because it’s a long-standing business in East St. “Since I’ve been filming, I’ve had so many people share their personal stories on how skating saved their lives, helped them lose weight and then just simply making meaningful friendships,” Searcy, 43, said. Searcy posts the videos on her social media pages. She regularly accomplishes the seemingly impossible task of recording videos of customers skating while she’s also skating. Searcy usually attends the “Old-School Night” on Mondays. Lekeisah Searcy, of O’Fallon, has gone to Skate City since she was a teen. Maintaining a familial warmth and comfort is an essential mission for Skate City. And the rink is where the older Wise and his wife met for the first time. His son, Larry Wise Jr., often DJs at the rink. He manages the skating rink while working as an officer for the East St. has run the rink with a host of cousins, his children and his wife. They will take your respect, your kindness, your decision-making and they will tell somebody else about how good it was when they were here, and it becomes a revolving door.” Impact (You) treat people with respect and they will return it. “The little one in skates is probably one, and the oldest one that was skating was 80.

said of one of the primary lessons he learned from Foggy. “You treat every customer as if they are somebody-from the little one to the oldest one in here,” Wise Sr. I’ll sell it to you.’ From that point on, it was it.” Foggy to see if we could get the rink re-opened and he said, ‘I’ll do you one better. Four years, five years after that, I was with the sheriff’s department then and every time somebody saw me, they were like, ‘Why did you close the rink?’.

“It wasn’t the place to come to, so he shut it down.

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