The nostalgia for me is that I've skated since about the mid-1950's, and recall that back before video games, computers, and 80 channels of cable TV, kids in northern climes used to spend a lot of time outdoors in the winter with stuff like that, (among other winter toys). We had an outdoor rink put up every winter by the town and we spent a lot of winter evenings on skates. Also skated a lot of ponds and bays on the south side of Lake Ontario. Wasn't much else to do as an energetic kid in the dead of winter with only 2 or 3 stations on the B&W TV and hardly any other entertainment options. Back in those antiquated days kids like me even shoveled driveways for $$ after a big snowstorm. Nowadays that is absolutely UNHEARD OF.
