I believe that is main entrance to the rink at one time with this look. The tape is noiable on the floor at the bottom of the walls. Were they renovating during COVID? Could be because of the blue painters' tapes on the floor. I love it. Looked very much like a movie theater entrance. Why? The way the hall is, the marquees on the wall, and the ticket booth is almost un seen in the picture, its in far right next to the doors in background.
This is the new version clearly was during COVID era because of the tapes on the floor with arrows and dividing, and the X marked spots there. Haha. Is this a chess? Haha. JK.
You can see the logo I was referring to if you read the profile first. The Lazer Zone is a laser tag game area. I love that logo. Very creative and different. I love the colors for it. Very colorful. Sort of matching to the carpet. The movie screen is to the right (see next photo). The word, ARCADE, is in SHAZAM! / Comic Book Fonts. Hey where is the jolly guy in red cap and suit? Oh wait, he is in North Pole.
This one is good to show you why the first one on the left is shown on top and the right on the bottom of this picture. Interesting wall they have there.. movie screen like. Nothing shown on right now.. shucks! No Star Wars! No TV's Batman! No Ultimate Playlist of Noise on right now. Aww, Shucks! Hahhaa. No, that is for the announcements. Such as Happy Birthday, or schedules. Or reminders. They could have added real light blubs on there. But this is great too. This rink was one of the most awesome in design. Really. Watch out Skate Daze, maybe this one could steal your title!
All three photos are actually taken from left to right. Look carefully and you will see what I mean. Very spacious! I love it. And the fonts on those walls.. Comic book fonts! Or known as SHAZAM! font for the ARCADE. The ones on the wall will remind you of the TV version Adam West as Batman. Nanananaa... BATMAN! Nanananana... I love the blots on the wall too. This is far cleaner and better than graffiti style which I do not like. Make note, rink operators! Nanananana.. BATMAN... (I do not own the lyric to Batman theme song).
Skate rental area. Poor kid. He just started to work there just few weeks before today (April 1, 2020) and he would be lay off among others comes April 5th. He is 14 but prayerfully he can find something to earn money for his first car or for college.
Noticed the difference between polyurethane coated and non coat?
Ah.. I love the "wet" polished Polyurethane coat better than dull floor. Why is that area in the back on right side dark? And the one on the left too.
All of Roll on America. Finally, this is the laser tag room called Laser Zone.
Courtesy of Tammy Morrison.
21st Century Skateland 90 Duval Rd. Lancaster, MA
Roll On America 90 Duval Rd. Lancaster, MA
Fun America at Roll On America 90 Duval Rd. Lancaster, MA
Roll On America 90 Duval Rd. Lancaster, MA
Fun America at Roll On America 90 Duval Rd. Lancaster, MA
This location on 90 Duval Road in Lancaster, Massachusetts was a rink for 21st Century Skateland then Roll On America. It ended in April 2021 due to COVID Global Lockdown and COVID Global Financial Depression. Yes, it is global depression. Hundreds if not, thousands of businesses closed ever since lockdowns began in early as December 2019 (in China, they began lockdown where it came from). This is one of dozens of dozens of rinks closing due to this factor.
But Don and Susan Perkins, the owner of the business wanted to sell the rink to keep the rink on so they can have retirement with enough they get from the sale. Unfortunately, they will fold because no one bought it. They decided to close on April 5, 2021.
Jamie Cortes, the General Manager for Roll On America rink who worked there since 2013 wanted to buy but because of the situation with COVID, the rules, limits, saw there would be no profits. And they worked hard to keep the place clean. (it is already April and they could have waited at least one or two more months before it is fine with full capacity to skate there).
It is true sad. A manager/operator I talked to other day said as I quote him, "Real sad. SAD." He said this as referring to many rinks closing every day. Sounds as if he wanted all still operational.
Before Roll On America, it was 21st Century Skateland and that was likely the ICE rink. It was converted to roller rink for Roll On America. Roll On America also had a laser tag game.
The Roll On America rink was owned and operated by Don and Susan Perkins.
Roll on America was one of the sponsor for the Ben Hollingsworth Memorial Ride since 2017 that raises money for The Learning Center for the Deaf. Wow, that is awesome because I am Deaf. I had no idea. Thank you Roll On America! Now without the rink, what will the Memorial Ride going to do with out the rink? What will the LCD do? If you want to donate, please contact the LCD directly. Click on the name above. Please do mention that Dead-Rinks recommended you to donate directly to them.
The property was sold (19 March 2021) at the tune of 2.5 Million USD (Xome and Boston Pads). Listed by Robin Scott of Tammy Morrison Real Estate. This sale was for the building and land only. Business is a separate purchase. Unfortunately no one wanted to buy the business so it was a loss for the Perkins to have as retirement money. And the community. Sometimes a new prospect rink operator would prefer wait till after they say they are going out of business, and talk with the property owner to lease and start up a new rink again. Just get tons of skates from another closing rink. Simple. And cheaper for the operators to do that rather than buy already established name, business, assets (skates, snack bar equipment, proshop inventory, things like that). I know of a major company did that. Arctic Cat Enterprises, a snowmobile company bankrupted and clearly no brands bought it (for Bombardier, the court said no because it is a foreign company), then the original staff and original owner bought all the necessary equipment, and started up again as Arctco because it was cheaper that way than buying as whole. I know this because I took some business courses and understood business practices. Arctco then became Arctic Cat, Inc. Now it is a Textron company.
The last time it was sold was in June 1997 (Xome). Apparently that is when Roll On America was first opened. Perhaps. Just hang on! Haha.
The Interior.
The interior was quite attractive with Sand Yellowish color roller rink with Blue center. It is painted. Likely it is concrete floor. I am not sure but appeared to be. The facility has 33,030 Square Feet of fun with roller rink, arcade, and laser tag in the rather large facility. I know how the building size is like when I was at a couple of rinks this size or larger.
There are a lot of tones of Red and Purple. Plus some Yellow and other colors. Very spacious interior I tell you. It is not the same as Sports-O-Rama which there were 2 walls dividing from the rink with other sections. This one truly opens to the eating area, snack bar, pro-shop, etc. Guptil's Arena, the World's Largest is pretty much in between those two rinks. More leaning toward openness. Only division is that wall between the rink and the laser tag section behind the rink. It is quite spacious for entrance, eating area, benches, arcade, and more. It is well executed architectural and interior design.
I love that logo for laser tag. It truly has that colorful spin and the 3 straight lines. Those lines represents lasers. But the spinning circle would represents coming from laser tag gun or the target itself. But very colorful. One photograph without people did not show up too well but another photo with too many people, I can see the logo very clear and sharp but with people in the way.. not good one to upload on here. Sorry.
The size of the rink floor must be very similar to Sports' rink floor from what I can see in the photos. I love the very spacious space surrounding the rink. And excellent black light carpet that really balance well. Each rink has their own customized carpet.
They have 2 Starburst lights but also columns of lights horizontally on the ceiling. With only one Mirror Ball.
The Exterior.
The design look very similar to another rink or two. Must be this was at one time owned by the same owners of this Rhodes Island rink.. I cant place the name at the moment. Very very similar zig-zag roof awing, the height, and size. This has to be their rink at one time. OR it was a copy. Often prospective rink operators will visit other rinks in area and love the idea of this or that and then secretly tell their architects to visit those rinks and get ideas and built those.. or being frank with the other owners who designed this and what company that makes this building.. Often rink operators will be nice to give them a copy of a card and go from there. Often rink owners do copy each other.
The Stats:
Rink Size: N/A. Floor: Blue center with Sand color paint on Concrete (or Maple?). Floor Layout: Standard.
Building Size: 33,030 SF. Built: 1971. Demolished: Still standing.
Type of Building: Free-Span Steel Truss Steel-Walled Warehouse - like Building.
Roof: Gable.
Acres: 9.6900 Acres.
Operated: (Overall)-- 1979 to April 5, 2021.
21st Century Skateland: 1971 to 1979 (Ice).
Roll On America: 1979 to April 5, 2021.
Reason for Closure:
21st Century Skateland: N/A.
Roll On America: Unable to maintain during COVID, closing and limit capacity hurts revenue. Owners wanted retirement and the managers wanted to buy but due to COVID rules, limits, etc forced the couple to change mind. New owner will change to something else. The rink owners tried to sell to a rink owner but no avail.
Wanted: Information regarding exact dates of open/closed, why closed, size of rink, rink materials. Also photos. Anyone knows or have photos, please let me know by emailing at [email protected]. Thank you.
Sources: Telegram - Announcing of closing; Facebook, Real Living (RE); Foster - Healey (RE); Xome; Roll on America PDF; Sentinel & Enterprise - Bittersweet ending; Leominister Champ - Skaters comments- PDF version;
Date of issue: 19 March 2021. Updated: 06 April 2021.
© Copyrighted by Dead-Rinks. All Rights Reserved. Jn 3:16.
But Don and Susan Perkins, the owner of the business wanted to sell the rink to keep the rink on so they can have retirement with enough they get from the sale. Unfortunately, they will fold because no one bought it. They decided to close on April 5, 2021.
Jamie Cortes, the General Manager for Roll On America rink who worked there since 2013 wanted to buy but because of the situation with COVID, the rules, limits, saw there would be no profits. And they worked hard to keep the place clean. (it is already April and they could have waited at least one or two more months before it is fine with full capacity to skate there).
It is true sad. A manager/operator I talked to other day said as I quote him, "Real sad. SAD." He said this as referring to many rinks closing every day. Sounds as if he wanted all still operational.
Before Roll On America, it was 21st Century Skateland and that was likely the ICE rink. It was converted to roller rink for Roll On America. Roll On America also had a laser tag game.
The Roll On America rink was owned and operated by Don and Susan Perkins.
Roll on America was one of the sponsor for the Ben Hollingsworth Memorial Ride since 2017 that raises money for The Learning Center for the Deaf. Wow, that is awesome because I am Deaf. I had no idea. Thank you Roll On America! Now without the rink, what will the Memorial Ride going to do with out the rink? What will the LCD do? If you want to donate, please contact the LCD directly. Click on the name above. Please do mention that Dead-Rinks recommended you to donate directly to them.
The property was sold (19 March 2021) at the tune of 2.5 Million USD (Xome and Boston Pads). Listed by Robin Scott of Tammy Morrison Real Estate. This sale was for the building and land only. Business is a separate purchase. Unfortunately no one wanted to buy the business so it was a loss for the Perkins to have as retirement money. And the community. Sometimes a new prospect rink operator would prefer wait till after they say they are going out of business, and talk with the property owner to lease and start up a new rink again. Just get tons of skates from another closing rink. Simple. And cheaper for the operators to do that rather than buy already established name, business, assets (skates, snack bar equipment, proshop inventory, things like that). I know of a major company did that. Arctic Cat Enterprises, a snowmobile company bankrupted and clearly no brands bought it (for Bombardier, the court said no because it is a foreign company), then the original staff and original owner bought all the necessary equipment, and started up again as Arctco because it was cheaper that way than buying as whole. I know this because I took some business courses and understood business practices. Arctco then became Arctic Cat, Inc. Now it is a Textron company.
The last time it was sold was in June 1997 (Xome). Apparently that is when Roll On America was first opened. Perhaps. Just hang on! Haha.
The Interior.
The interior was quite attractive with Sand Yellowish color roller rink with Blue center. It is painted. Likely it is concrete floor. I am not sure but appeared to be. The facility has 33,030 Square Feet of fun with roller rink, arcade, and laser tag in the rather large facility. I know how the building size is like when I was at a couple of rinks this size or larger.
There are a lot of tones of Red and Purple. Plus some Yellow and other colors. Very spacious interior I tell you. It is not the same as Sports-O-Rama which there were 2 walls dividing from the rink with other sections. This one truly opens to the eating area, snack bar, pro-shop, etc. Guptil's Arena, the World's Largest is pretty much in between those two rinks. More leaning toward openness. Only division is that wall between the rink and the laser tag section behind the rink. It is quite spacious for entrance, eating area, benches, arcade, and more. It is well executed architectural and interior design.
I love that logo for laser tag. It truly has that colorful spin and the 3 straight lines. Those lines represents lasers. But the spinning circle would represents coming from laser tag gun or the target itself. But very colorful. One photograph without people did not show up too well but another photo with too many people, I can see the logo very clear and sharp but with people in the way.. not good one to upload on here. Sorry.
The size of the rink floor must be very similar to Sports' rink floor from what I can see in the photos. I love the very spacious space surrounding the rink. And excellent black light carpet that really balance well. Each rink has their own customized carpet.
They have 2 Starburst lights but also columns of lights horizontally on the ceiling. With only one Mirror Ball.
The Exterior.
The design look very similar to another rink or two. Must be this was at one time owned by the same owners of this Rhodes Island rink.. I cant place the name at the moment. Very very similar zig-zag roof awing, the height, and size. This has to be their rink at one time. OR it was a copy. Often prospective rink operators will visit other rinks in area and love the idea of this or that and then secretly tell their architects to visit those rinks and get ideas and built those.. or being frank with the other owners who designed this and what company that makes this building.. Often rink operators will be nice to give them a copy of a card and go from there. Often rink owners do copy each other.
The Stats:
Rink Size: N/A. Floor: Blue center with Sand color paint on Concrete (or Maple?). Floor Layout: Standard.
Building Size: 33,030 SF. Built: 1971. Demolished: Still standing.
Type of Building: Free-Span Steel Truss Steel-Walled Warehouse - like Building.
Roof: Gable.
Acres: 9.6900 Acres.
Operated: (Overall)-- 1979 to April 5, 2021.
21st Century Skateland: 1971 to 1979 (Ice).
Roll On America: 1979 to April 5, 2021.
Reason for Closure:
21st Century Skateland: N/A.
Roll On America: Unable to maintain during COVID, closing and limit capacity hurts revenue. Owners wanted retirement and the managers wanted to buy but due to COVID rules, limits, etc forced the couple to change mind. New owner will change to something else. The rink owners tried to sell to a rink owner but no avail.
Wanted: Information regarding exact dates of open/closed, why closed, size of rink, rink materials. Also photos. Anyone knows or have photos, please let me know by emailing at [email protected]. Thank you.
Sources: Telegram - Announcing of closing; Facebook, Real Living (RE); Foster - Healey (RE); Xome; Roll on America PDF; Sentinel & Enterprise - Bittersweet ending; Leominister Champ - Skaters comments- PDF version;
Date of issue: 19 March 2021. Updated: 06 April 2021.
© Copyrighted by Dead-Rinks. All Rights Reserved. Jn 3:16.