just as i was riding off into the sunset last sunday after patchwork long beach, i took a quick detour down to 4th street to check out moxi. owned by michelle “estro jen” steilen, co-founder of the long beach roller derby- the tiny shop is jam-packed with kickass retro skates for rental/purchase and steilen’s own line of american-made “revitalized classic” quad skates (including the adorable “ivy” with black & white zebra stripe and translucent ruby red wheels). and, although roller skating fits into a dim regrettable part of my adolescent memory involving color-coordinated scrunchies, socks and white denim- as i shopped under the beneficent sparkle of moxi’s roller-skate shaped disco ball… i could almost imagine myself as a new kind of suburban skating warrior… -varci vartanian (staff writer)
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