Best Place to Skate

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Shelley Hiam

If the first thing that comes to mind when you hear the words scissoring, dipping, bouncing, toe dragging, trucking, or rexing has to do with Wiccans out in the woods, it's been way too long since you've been to Playland. Their long-running adults-only sessions still light up Tuesday nights. And while they've invested a lot to keep the old girl up to snuff, she still emits that sweet Seventies/Eighties vibe that's kept her rolling for over 40 years. Everyone knows and loves the looming glitter skate-ball centerpiece. But c'mon, can we hear it for the array of red neon thunderbolts? Or the neon clouds and stars? Nothin' beats how they glow in the fog, except, perhaps, the smooth whoosh of quads against that glorious new wood floor.