Skates, Cake and a DJ Booth

A roller-skating rink divided into seven labelled rooms on two floors. Upstairs, the birthday party room has star wallpaper, balloons, a frosted cake on a blue table and a cardboard rocket while three children open presents. The disc-jockey booth holds a record shelf, two speakers and a pair of people at the turntables. In the trophy lounge a man in a western shirt shakes a boy's hand beside shelves of gold cups and framed certificates. Downstairs, an attendant hands purple skates from numbered cubbies at the rental counter, skaters glide across a rainbow floor in the main rink beneath pennants and a painted rocket, the snack bar serves from a cherry-tiled wall, and the arcade nook glows with neon and a claw machine. The rainbow floor, the cherry tiles and the neon glow make the rink's lower floor the brightest place to begin.