Patrick Swayze and April Allen were roller skating partners as children in Houston, Texas. When filming started, they hadn't seen each other for eleven years.
According to Maureen McCormick, cocaine use was common during filming. In her book "Here's the Story: Surviving Marcia Brady and Finding My True Voice", she writes "Like a disco, there was a lot of cocaine being done on the set. Many people were open about it."
This film was the first roller-disco movie of the late 1970s. It was released a few months before Roller Boogie (1979).
The Skatetown, U.S.A disco was based on Flipper's Roller Boogie Palace on Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood, California. It opened in 1979, and the film premiered there.
Dorothy Stratten: The blonde at the food counter ordering pizza. She was the August 1979 Playboy Playmate Of The Month and 1980 Playmate Of The Year.