B&B Roller Rink 1469 State Route 7, Richmondville, New York. Logo. Source: B&B Rink Fan page on Facebook.
B&B Roller Rink 1469 State Route 7, Richmondville, New York. The main entrance was in the rear, NOT front. It was a reversal. Source: B&B Rink Fan page on Facebook.
B&B Roller Rink 1469 State Route 7, Richmondville, New York. You are seeing the front in the rear. The main entrance was in the rear, NOT front. It was a reversal. Source: B&B Rink Fan page on Facebook.
B&B Roller Rink 1469 State Route 7, Richmondville, New York. You are seeing the front in the rear. The main entrance was in the rear, NOT front. It was a reversal. Source: B&B Rink Fan page on Facebook.
B&B Roller Rink 1469 State Route 7, Richmondville, New York. Floor was being redone. Source: B&B Rink Fan page on Facebook.
B&B Roller Rink 1469 State Route 7, Richmondville, New York During a session at the time. Source: B&B Rink Fan page on Facebook.
B&B Roller Rink 1469 State Route 7, Richmondville, New York Noticed playful skates mural on the wall. Parents watching children skate are seen here. Source: B&B Rink Fan page on Facebook.
B&B Roller Rink 1469 State Route 7, Richmondville, New York. Beautiful floor seen shining. Source: B&B Rink Fan page on Facebook.
B&B Roller Rink 1469 State Route 7, Richmondville, New York. One of the best photos to see clearly of the wood grain and layout of the wood. Source: B&B Rink Fan page on Facebook.
B&B Roller Rink 1469 State Route 7, Richmondville, New York
This rink was rather small and cute in the countryside, Richmondville, NY which is west of Albany, NY that Interstate 88 runs through that town. East of Cooperstown, NY, the founding home of baseball. Shorty and Sue Merwyn reopened the rink in 2014 and only ran for four years and wanted to retire. The rink was housed in a simple house-like building but a warehouse size with siding and aluminum gable roof paneling. The exterior had quite nice soothing colors of royal blue trims and light cool gray colors for siding. They had a ramp for ADA accessibility.
The rink was rather small and simple. The main front with the door was in the REAR of the building. It was quite opposite of what it would have been designed. Likely because of the house in front of the rink that is facing the street. They did remodel the rink in more recent times with Maple wood with clear coat. The remodel really did look great especially the floor. The walls are rather narrow for this narrow rink. The evidence was shown clearly with the standard Speed Skating red outline paint around the rink. That really narrowed the outlying of the rink. It appeared to be 45 feet wide instead of standard ice hockey rink size of 85 feet wide. Maybe less when compared to a person in the photos. I measured in one of the photo. It is roughly 47 feet wide (counted 140 studs in a row in bottom photo). The circle.. I measured at 120 inches, Three circles but I added more. 6 more. that cames to 1440 inches, meaning 120 feet.
The railing was wood. and part of the gabled roof was shown on each side above the rink and snack bar area. The paints on the walls and ceiling are gloss paint to reflex lights on the walls.
This rink was third name (and ownership/management) for this facility. It was the last of the series of rinks. See New Palace skating rink / Warnerville skating rink page.
The rink was recently remodeled only to be sold on June 22, 2018 to a fitness club, Power Up Health & Fitness Center on for $150,000 which was pretty cheap deal. (drats, I wish I could have bought it!)
The owners skated for many years and they retained the same manager, Lou Pitcher who was managing the previous rink for the previous owner who passed away in 1999, the year the previous rink closed. That was then called, Warnerville and New Palace rinks. See that page (both were operating without closing till 1999).
The rinks first opened in around 1960s and closed in 1999 when the newest owner, Edward Parker who owned the rink from mid-1990s to 1999. Previous owners, Clint Rockstroh (60's?), Francis and Marion Lussier (late 60's?) had the rink. The change of name was done by one of the owners. Unknown.
The manager though, Lou Pitcher who ran the revived rink in 2014 to 2018 also was the manger of those rinks. She was hired to work at unknown date till the death of the owner in 1999.
The Rink interior was different than the updated one that opened in 2014.
The very last event was special, they had BBQ and Skate day. They cooked BBQ chicken! This is quite unusual. Excellent concept to attract skaters. If rinks do this, this is a good marketing idea but may have to charge like 10 dollars more for a ticket per person.
Closed due to retirement for the couple.
Rink Size: Roughly 47' x 120'. Floor: Mable Wood with Clear Coat Polyurethane.. Floor Layout: Straight
Building Size: N/A Built: N/A
Type of Building: Free Span Steel Cinderblocks- walled with Wood/alumimum Siding Warehouse like Building.
Roof: Gabled.
Acres: N/A
Operated:
New Palace Skating Rink: 1960s to 1999.
Warnerville Skating Rink: 1960s to 1999.
B&B Roller Rink: July 2014 to June 23, 2018.
Reason for Closure:
New Palace Skating Rink:
Warnerville Skating Rink: N/A.
B&B Roller Rink: Retirement and sold to a fitness club.
Sources:
Skate Time! Newsletter of Rollerama of Schenectady, NY.
B&B Fan page on Facebook.
Date of issue: January 2019.
Updated:
For office use only: 9.
Worth to visit:
You can if you want to work out in the gym there. it is a fitness club.
DISCLAIMER:
Dead-Rinks and Mark Falso are not responsible for your physical and legal injuries you may have caused. Please always obey laws and regulations and property owner's signs. Some states allow purple paint on fence which means they even have guns on their property and have rights to shoot you. Please DO NOT attempt to enter property without permission!
For abandoned rinks, after you receive permission, do WEAR safety OSHA equipment including a safety glasses, pair of safety gloves, an orange vest or a jacket, and a construction helmet.
Thank you for understanding.
Second of all: The contents including words and photos above on this page and/or on any pages are purely educational entertainment purposes only. I provide what information from other websites, skaters, and operators and it may end up with different results between two (or more) sources. It is not our responsible for errors we caused. All sources are shown on each page. All opinions and statements of mine are also stated and are for purely educational entertainment only.
Rinks that are closed are considered dead. Rinks that are/were sold and with new management names new name(s), the former are considered dead. Previous operating rink that closed but came back years later, are considered dead because the reopening is considered rebooted, nothing to do with the former.
As for “For Office Only” is for my reasoning and private legal reason for that.
All photos you submitted or we retrieved becomes property of Dead-Rinks and are watermarked but they are credited to you (or where the source is from). Thank you for understanding. To understand more about this, please go to this page: Dead-Rinks List.
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This rink was rather small and cute in the countryside, Richmondville, NY which is west of Albany, NY that Interstate 88 runs through that town. East of Cooperstown, NY, the founding home of baseball. Shorty and Sue Merwyn reopened the rink in 2014 and only ran for four years and wanted to retire. The rink was housed in a simple house-like building but a warehouse size with siding and aluminum gable roof paneling. The exterior had quite nice soothing colors of royal blue trims and light cool gray colors for siding. They had a ramp for ADA accessibility.
The rink was rather small and simple. The main front with the door was in the REAR of the building. It was quite opposite of what it would have been designed. Likely because of the house in front of the rink that is facing the street. They did remodel the rink in more recent times with Maple wood with clear coat. The remodel really did look great especially the floor. The walls are rather narrow for this narrow rink. The evidence was shown clearly with the standard Speed Skating red outline paint around the rink. That really narrowed the outlying of the rink. It appeared to be 45 feet wide instead of standard ice hockey rink size of 85 feet wide. Maybe less when compared to a person in the photos. I measured in one of the photo. It is roughly 47 feet wide (counted 140 studs in a row in bottom photo). The circle.. I measured at 120 inches, Three circles but I added more. 6 more. that cames to 1440 inches, meaning 120 feet.
The railing was wood. and part of the gabled roof was shown on each side above the rink and snack bar area. The paints on the walls and ceiling are gloss paint to reflex lights on the walls.
This rink was third name (and ownership/management) for this facility. It was the last of the series of rinks. See New Palace skating rink / Warnerville skating rink page.
The rink was recently remodeled only to be sold on June 22, 2018 to a fitness club, Power Up Health & Fitness Center on for $150,000 which was pretty cheap deal. (drats, I wish I could have bought it!)
The owners skated for many years and they retained the same manager, Lou Pitcher who was managing the previous rink for the previous owner who passed away in 1999, the year the previous rink closed. That was then called, Warnerville and New Palace rinks. See that page (both were operating without closing till 1999).
The rinks first opened in around 1960s and closed in 1999 when the newest owner, Edward Parker who owned the rink from mid-1990s to 1999. Previous owners, Clint Rockstroh (60's?), Francis and Marion Lussier (late 60's?) had the rink. The change of name was done by one of the owners. Unknown.
The manager though, Lou Pitcher who ran the revived rink in 2014 to 2018 also was the manger of those rinks. She was hired to work at unknown date till the death of the owner in 1999.
The Rink interior was different than the updated one that opened in 2014.
The very last event was special, they had BBQ and Skate day. They cooked BBQ chicken! This is quite unusual. Excellent concept to attract skaters. If rinks do this, this is a good marketing idea but may have to charge like 10 dollars more for a ticket per person.
Closed due to retirement for the couple.
Rink Size: Roughly 47' x 120'. Floor: Mable Wood with Clear Coat Polyurethane.. Floor Layout: Straight
Building Size: N/A Built: N/A
Type of Building: Free Span Steel Cinderblocks- walled with Wood/alumimum Siding Warehouse like Building.
Roof: Gabled.
Acres: N/A
Operated:
New Palace Skating Rink: 1960s to 1999.
Warnerville Skating Rink: 1960s to 1999.
B&B Roller Rink: July 2014 to June 23, 2018.
Reason for Closure:
New Palace Skating Rink:
Warnerville Skating Rink: N/A.
B&B Roller Rink: Retirement and sold to a fitness club.
Sources:
Skate Time! Newsletter of Rollerama of Schenectady, NY.
B&B Fan page on Facebook.
Date of issue: January 2019.
Updated:
For office use only: 9.
Worth to visit:
You can if you want to work out in the gym there. it is a fitness club.
DISCLAIMER:
Dead-Rinks and Mark Falso are not responsible for your physical and legal injuries you may have caused. Please always obey laws and regulations and property owner's signs. Some states allow purple paint on fence which means they even have guns on their property and have rights to shoot you. Please DO NOT attempt to enter property without permission!
For abandoned rinks, after you receive permission, do WEAR safety OSHA equipment including a safety glasses, pair of safety gloves, an orange vest or a jacket, and a construction helmet.
Thank you for understanding.
Second of all: The contents including words and photos above on this page and/or on any pages are purely educational entertainment purposes only. I provide what information from other websites, skaters, and operators and it may end up with different results between two (or more) sources. It is not our responsible for errors we caused. All sources are shown on each page. All opinions and statements of mine are also stated and are for purely educational entertainment only.
Rinks that are closed are considered dead. Rinks that are/were sold and with new management names new name(s), the former are considered dead. Previous operating rink that closed but came back years later, are considered dead because the reopening is considered rebooted, nothing to do with the former.
As for “For Office Only” is for my reasoning and private legal reason for that.
All photos you submitted or we retrieved becomes property of Dead-Rinks and are watermarked but they are credited to you (or where the source is from). Thank you for understanding. To understand more about this, please go to this page: Dead-Rinks List.
© Copyrighted by Dead-Rinks. All Rights Reserved. Jn 3:3 to 16. Deut. 32:7