Bill Yates

[Don_ih]

Down at The Sweetheart Rink -- Bill Yates
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Excellent spread of images all taken over a short span of time at a rollerrink in Florida in the early 70's. The story of how the images were taken and where they've been is interesting, too. The photographer, Bill Yates, went on to a successful career, but not as a street photographer - but as an aerial photographer.

These photos hold a time and place and feeling that seems impossible, now.

 

[Mick Fagan]

Love the flared trousers, great in wet weather..... and muddy pathways.

 

[Don_ih]

Love the flared trousers, great in wet weather..... and muddy pathways.

That style wasn't complete until the bottoms of the pants were permanently a different colour from the rest due to always wicking muddy water up to the calf.

 

[guangong]

Love the flared trousers, great in wet weather..... and muddy pathways.

They are called “bell bottoms”.

 

[Mick Fagan]

They are called “bell bottoms”.

Bell bottoms had a slightly different style. The trousers were pretty normal until about halfway down the shinbone, then they abruptly flared out to cover the entire shoe. These looked a lot closer to a bell shape than flared trousers. I know this as I wore both styles.

 

[Don_ih]

They are called “bell bottoms”.

Bell bottoms are excessively flared flare pants. They're like the most ridiculous extent to which the style can be taken.

 

[Andrew O'Neill]

Kids smoking reminds me of the smoke pit at my high school. There was also a roller rink nearby. Loads of fun! I disliked flared pants and bell bottoms though, and refused to put them on New Wave came along, ushering in the straight leg, thankfully!

 

[awty]

Thems was the days.

 

[guangong]

Bell bottoms had a slightly different style. The trousers were pretty normal until about halfway down the shinbone, then they abruptly flared out to cover the entire shoe. These looked a lot closer to a bell shape than flared trousers. I know this as I wore both styles.

Term is new to me, but I was always surprised to see adults wearing teenybopper styles. To each his own.

 

[Don_ih]

I was always surprised to see adults wearing teenybopper styles

The teenybopper styles had to come from somewhere. This particular style (bellbottoms) came from the US Navy.