In your last minute holiday shopping, you may be wondering what you get the skater that has everything? It's a question that people have been struggling with for decades. Today's blog is a little nostalgic collection of advertisements of the kinds of goodies skaters would hope to find under the Christmas tree in the fifties.
Photo courtesy "Skating World" magazine
Photo courtesy "Skating World" magazine
Photo courtesy "Skating" magazine
Photo courtesy "Skating World" magazine
Photo courtesy "Skating" magazine
Photo courtesy "Skating" magazine
Photo courtesy "Skating World" magazine
Photo courtesy "Skating" magazine
What kinds of skating-themed gifts did find under the Christmas tree in your youth? Do any of these advertisements mean anything to you? If so, fire off an e-mail! I'd love to share some of your holiday skating stories in the next edition of Reader Mail.
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