Here's Your Chance to Run Southern Skates, the Roller Rink Dallas Never Wanted

If operating a skating rink sounds like your cup of roller boogie, the city of Dallas is looking to hand over the keys to a slightly used, in-the-process-of-being-updated joint on East Ledbetter Drive — Southern Skates, which the city tried to offload a decade ago till the feds and then once-and-current council member Dwaine Caraway raised a stink over a proposed sale. This go-round the city's not looking for a buyer, just an operator — someone to flip on the lights, rent out the roller skates and keep the place open on the days and nights when it's currently closed.Cue the Vaughan Mason & Crew 1980 hit "Bounce, Rock, Skate, Roll.""And I am in total support," Caraway said a few days before his fifth swearing-in as southern Oak Cliff's rep at the horseshoe. "As long as the kids have somewhere to go and have fun and stay off the streets, as long as the city is not strapped with having to foot the bill, and as long as the right deal is put together, we win."  Continue reading...