kopetsa
87 posts
Jan 12, 2008
10:45 AM
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How did you discover rollers and get into them?
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3757
476 posts
Jan 12, 2008
10:54 AM
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My father started me off as he raised rollers so I grew up with them. He is almost eighty now but looks great!
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smoke747
504 posts
Jan 12, 2008
10:58 AM
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My uncle raised rollers,tumblers and other stuff when I was a kid. The rollers hooked me.
smoke747
Last Edited by on Jan 12, 2008 11:15 AM
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elopez
335 posts
Jan 12, 2008
11:08 AM
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My father got us hooked. He took us to a pet store on Florence and Alameda and we saw some rollers and he explained how they rolled in the air and would come back. We couldn't beleive it, so we got them and have been hooked since then.
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Efren Lopez
SGVS
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W@yne
929 posts
Jan 12, 2008
11:16 AM
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My neighbour and friend.
His father used to keep rollers.
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Regards
W@yne UK
Patience Perseverance Perfection
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RXR Loft
164 posts
Jan 12, 2008
12:59 PM
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It all started back in 1973 I was in the 3rd grade, living in south central Los Angeles a place called Watts.
Keeping pigeons kept me off the bad streets of L.A.
My uncle Frank built the cage and my brother and I stocked it.. When mom went to the market, it was pigeon catching us and caught our first birds.. Yes... I had Commies...and loved them..
We up-graded to rollers and had very good success.
we also shopped @ Boon's and Red Wing (Alameda / Florance)
just before christmas I stoped in with my kids.. thay still have all the differnt kinds of birds and stuff.
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Rudy
RxR Loft
Roll'em if you got'em...
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Donny James
254 posts
Jan 12, 2008
2:50 PM
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like i said before my brother inlaw steve turner and my friend bill berry got hooked up with rollers...............donny james
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sundance
376 posts
Jan 12, 2008
2:55 PM
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Every kid in our neighborhood had pigeons of some kind or anouther back in the 60s and 70s. A few had rollers that were kept and flown in the same loft as any other pigeon we could find.
Gosh I wonder now how good some of those birds really were or could of been, had any of us really known what to do with them.
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Butch @
Sundance Roller Lofts
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Windjammer Loft
144 posts
Jan 12, 2008
3:20 PM
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After being out of the racing hobby for many years I got the calling AGAIN. But,I didn't want the same race birds. I wanted something different. I started surfen the net. Got hooked up with J_Star back in 2004. He invited me to a fly here in Ohio. That summer I got HOOKED. A few months later I built my first kitbox and was fortunate to get a kit of Hardesty/Roe birds from Rick Szempias and the rest is history.
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Fly High and Roll On
Paul
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spanky
253 posts
Jan 12, 2008
4:43 PM
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WELL IT WAS IN 1981 I WAS 5 YRS YOUNG. MY NEIGHBOR HAD ROLLERZ AND ONE OF THEM ROLL DOWN ON MY YARD SO HE GAVE IT ME. THATS THE DAY I GOT HOOK.
SPANKY
SGVS
Last Edited by on Jan 12, 2008 4:44 PM
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