2) Roller Skates

Skates once had keys that tightened them over our shoes in addition to the straps. If you lost the key you were just outta luck and there were lots of different shapes of keys, too. By the 1970s skating rinks and catalogs featured the roller skates like shoes that most of us are familiar with today.

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