Empire Rollerdrome

my grandparents went roller skating here..my mother also later on...it was also a bingo place!! my mom won a ton of money one night!! scared she would be mugged, so instead she took a cab home!! we lived at 3215 clarendon road in brooklyn..still remember how she and my late aunt pearl were jumping for joy..

I am sorry that the Empire is gone, but the memories live on. I went as a kid from the 1960s thru the early 80's. Won the best dressed for Halloween 1979 as a playboy bunny :)

A crummy ghetto place in a crummy ghetto neighborhood. I understand that it has finally closed after years of violent incidents.

The Empire was and still is "the joint". Every Tuesday night the have the old school night. I remember a bunch of us from Marlboro projects used to go there to skate. We used to bring our own skates because sometimes we would get in fights with the kids from flatbush or brownsville and you might not have time to change. You had to skate all the way to the D train, hopefully with your sneakers and jacket in tow!

Wow, that takes me back. I used to go there as a kid back in the late 60's and early 70's. It was the first roller disco before "disco" even had a name.