Bill’s Roller Rink

Anoka

Bill’s Roller Rink was somewhere in Anoka.

Photo of Bill’s courtesy Stephen Michael Swenson, Sr.

The photo below is from the annals of Facebook. How often did musicians fall off their tiny stages?

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