Saturday, September 26, 2015

Meet the kids of The Sweetheart Rink: Photographer unearths incredible album of portraits taken inside a rural Florida roller rink in 1972

  • Photographer Bill Yates started taking photos at the Sweetheart Rink in Tampa, Florida, in 1972
  • He used the images to get into a graduate program for photography - then put them away in a box
  • The incredible images show young kids swigging Pepsi and even smoking cigarettes at the rink
  • One boy even holds a gun to his head as a joke as he fools around with his shirtless friends  
  • The pictures will soon form part of an exhibition at New Orleans’ Ogden Museum of Southern Art
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