Template:Did you know nominations/Roll-A-Palace

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The result was: promoted by SL93 talk 14:43, 26 January 2025 (UTC)

Roll-A-Palace

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Disco skaters at the Roll-A-Palace, 1979

... that Brooklyn's Roll-A-Palace was "the front-runner of the roller-disco craze"?

Source: "What's Hot? What's Not?". Cue: The Weekly Magazine of New York Life. Cue Publishing Company. 1979. " ... the front - runner of the roller - disco craze , a fabulous $ 2 million roller disco in a former movie theater that has been earning its $ 4 ( including skates ) admission price for the past two years . "

https://www.google.com/books/edition/Cue/ogkwAQAAIAAJ?hl=en

- ALT1: ... that Brooklyn's Sheepshead Bay Roll-A-Palace hosted weekly "Disco Dips" nights, celebrating "the first roller disco record played in a skating rink"? Source: "Faster Than Sound". Kalamazoo News. 15 November 1979. p. 16. Retrieved 2025-01-02. https://digmichnews.cmich.edu/?a=d&d=KalamazooKN19791115-01.1.15&e=-------en-10--1--txt-txIN----------

And,

Riedinger, Bob Jr. (1979-03-03). "Going Back to the 1870s: Skating To Music". Billboard. pp. 48, 57. https://books.google.com/books?id=KyUEAAAAMBAJ&dq=%22roll-a-palace%22&pg=PT56#v=onepage&q=%22roll-a-palace%22&f=false

- ALT2: ... that in 1979, Brooklyn's Sheepshead Bay Roll-A-Palace hosted over 5,000 patrons per weekend, featuring a snack bar that seated 400? Source: Riedinger, Bob Jr. (1979-03-03). "Going Back to the 1870s: Skating To Music". Billboard. pp. 48, 57. https://books.google.com/books?id=KyUEAAAAMBAJ&dq=%22roll-a-palace%22&pg=PT56#v=onepage&q=%22roll-a-palace%22&f=false
- ALT3: ... that Brooklyn's Sheepshead Bay Roll-A-Palace premiered the "Disco Dip" in 1979, widely considered the first roller disco song? Source: "Faster Than Sound". Kalamazoo News. 15 November 1979. p. 16. Retrieved 2025-01-02. https://digmichnews.cmich.edu/?a=d&d=KalamazooKN19791115-01.1.15&e=-------en-10--1--txt-txIN----------

And,

Riedinger, Bob Jr. (1979-03-03). "Going Back to the 1870s: Skating To Music". Billboard. pp. 48, 57. https://books.google.com/books?id=KyUEAAAAMBAJ&dq=%22roll-a-palace%22&pg=PT56#v=onepage&q=%22roll-a-palace%22&f=false

- Reviewed:

Created by Evedawn99 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Evedawn99 (talk) 14:41, 8 January 2025 (UTC).

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
Freely licensed: Used in article: Clear at 100px:

QPQ: None required.

Overall: Article was 6 days old at the time of nomination, which makes it new enough. Article is long enough (4281 characters). Article does not have copyright problems (Earwig's Copyvio Detector scored 31.5%, violation unlikely). Hook is interesting, is cited and appears in the article. Picture appears in the article and is clear at 100 pixels. QPQ is not needed. JIP | Talk 16:30, 20 January 2025 (UTC)

- Thank you so much for the review! What "dy-no-mite" news that this may be a future DYK. I'm very excited for more people to learn about this historically significant rink. To quote a disco-era meme (1973's Superfly Meets Shaft): "Aooow, Good God!" All the best and thanks again, Evedawn99 (talk) 14:33, 21 January 2025 (UTC)