Brookwood Roller Rink Route 62, (1884 North Ellsworth Ave), Salem, OH. An artist rendering, artist unknown. Source: The Salem News Tuesday August 5, 1956 advertisement. Cleaned up digitally remastered by Dead-Rinks.
Brookwood Roller Rink Route 62, (1884 North Ellsworth Ave), Salem, OH. Just opened and already neighbors complaining! Source: The Salem News, Thursday, August 11, 1949. Cleaned up by Dead-Rinks.
Brookwood Roller Rink Route 62, (1884 North Ellsworth Ave), Salem, OH. Advertisement showing who plays the organ. Source: The Salem News, Thursday, March 27, 1952. Cleaned up by Dead-Rinks.
Brookwood Roller Rink Route 62, (1884 North Ellsworth Ave), Salem, OH. Advertisement showing married couples only night. Quite interesting that I never heard of this again. Source: The Salem News, Saturday, January 30, 1954 Cleaned up by Dead-Rinks.
Brookwood Roller Rink Route 62, (1884 North Ellsworth Ave), Salem, OH. Advertisement showing a dancing night with the orchestra. Very 1920s to 40s retro in 1950s! Source: The Salem News, Wednesday, February 16, 1955. Cleaned up by Dead-Rinks.
Brookwood Roller Rink Route 62, (1884 North Ellsworth Ave), Salem, OH. Advertisement in school newsletter. One of many advertisements shown in the same school newsletter monthly. This one shown from December 2, 1955. Faded Newspaper color converted to black-and-white. Source: The Salem Quaker (High school newsletter) December 2, 1955, page 3.
Brookwood Roller Rink Route 62, (1884 North Ellsworth Ave), Salem, OH. Best ad describing about the rink. Only one that has more information than any ads or even an article. Thanks to the picture, the location was found. Source: The Salem News, Tuesday, June 5, 1956. Cleaned up and remastered by Dead-Rinks replaced hard to see rendering.)
Brookwood Roller Rink Route 62, (1884 North Ellsworth Ave), Salem, OH. Advertisement found on page 125 of the 1958 Salem High School Yearbook. Source: Salem HS Yearbook.
Brookwood Roller Rink Route 62, (1884 North Ellsworth Ave), Salem, OH. Under new management and schedule. Source: The Salem News, Friday, October 31, 1958.
Brookwood Roller Rink Route 62, (1884 North Ellsworth Ave), Salem, OH. Still under new management but this was the final known advertisement unless someone can come forward with an update when they closed for good. Source: The Salem News, Friday, March 27, 1959.
Brookwood Roller Rink Route 62, (1884 North Ellsworth Ave), Salem, OH. The proof they were closed when they were selling this Hammond organ they had posted for sale. Source: The Salem News, Monday, July 27, 1959.
Brookwood Roller Rink Route 62, (1884 North Ellsworth Ave), Salem, OH. This is a comparison which I am very exciting to find. It has to be 1884 North Ellsworth Avenue, Salem, OH. Sure, the rink used the address as Route 62 but never really specify their location. Besides that I believe the Route was rerouted after the rink was built in 1962 to make way a new bypass highway and named this road as North Ellsworth Avenue. It was already done with the name. Anyway, I attempted by looking at old historic maps by USGS, no highway so I gave up on that until I used Google to look for any structure that might fit. I guessed correctly the old Route 62 which is now N. Ellsworth because it was main road through town going north. And I got what I was looking for. I found this building at 1884 which would fit quite similar to the old roller rink. If you look inside the red circles between the rendering, and the Google Map photo, I compared them but the number was off by the artist. But wait, the door is correct where it is now. But they demolished the extension with Valler Gable roof on the left side as seen in the artist rendering. You can see the plain wall there does not match to the wall on the right side of the doors in the Google photo. It clearly showed it mean the old extension was built. I believe it was built with a roof for office, concessions, and bathroom and skaters enjoy open roof rink with walls kind of like a rink in Arizona with similar design. Source: The Salem News. Tuesday, June 5, 1956 and Google Map. Photo shop by Dead-Rinks.
Brookwood Roller Rink Route 62, (1884 North Ellsworth Ave), Salem, OH. Today, it is a frat society. Source: Google Map.
Brookwood Roller Rink Route 62 (1884 North Ellsworth Ave), Salem, OH
Brookwood Roller Rink was on Route 62 at East 10th Street, in Salem, Ohio but I did my research and there is no way Route 62 crosses with East 10th Street according to Google Map. However, West 10th Street does not either. And a better picture than an artist drawing of the rink. That surprised me no photograph of the building or the rink inside. The Tuesday, June 5, 1956 article like advertisement explained it was about a mile and half from Salem if you measure from downtown, I would say it is the current building on 1879 North Ellsworth Ave located because that building looked like ti is a match to the building in the Google Map photo. I can describe the similarities between those two. Look at the front wall, you see the shapes every few feet on that front wall? It is a match to the drawing. They demolished the front extension and replaced the arch roof with standard popular Gable roof. The location is about right because it is about half mile to Highway 62! Made sense where it would be.
Three investors were operators of this rink and they were, in alphabetically order of last name: Mr. and Mrs. Everett Hall, Bill Kozicky, and James Minamyer. Bill Kozicky was also the organist for the rink.
They began as an open air roller rink. Maybe this is why the noise complains. Read on.
They had a rough start because when they first opened that June of 1949, noise from the rink were heard in the neighborhood. This is why I needed that map to see where it was. If it was East 10th Street by Youngtown Street right where the cemetery is, that is understandable because many residents there including apartments. But on 62, which is a very long road, I do not know where but it did say North side of Salem according to The Salem News Thursday August 11, 1949 so that places somewhere on 62. Hard to tell where because of no East 10th Street that runs through 62. By the way 62 really is called US Highway 62 according to Google Map. That is modern day route. Must be one of those roads was called 62 back then.
The neighbors have complained about the noise. This sounded familiar. It has happened here with a series of 3 different bars under one roof in North Syracuse in 1990s. The operator of that series of bar understood and closed like that after about a month of operations.
They opened the rink in 1949 with plastic floor but it was not until 1951 they converted to Hardwood Maple floor. I believe that was when they covered the rink with Segmental Arch Steel Trusses to buffer the music noises that neighbors complained. It took about a year and half to fix the problem. Roof does reduce noises outside.
Back to this rink. It lasted till mysteriously end in 1959. Just ten years.
The Interior.
N/A.
The Exterior.
It had Segmental Arch Free Span Steel Trusses Cinderblocks-walled Arena like with Gable roof extension of the building which making it shaped like an L.
The Stats:
Rink Size: N/A.
Floor:
June 1949: Plastic
January 1951: Non-painted urethane coated Maple.
Floor Layout: N/A. (for both)
Building Size: N/A. Built: N/A. Demolished: N/A.
Type of Building:
June 1949: Open air rink (no roof) using Plastic floor
1951: Free-Span Steel Trusses Steel-Walled Warehouse - like Building. With Maple floor.
Roof: Gable.
Acres: N/A.
Operated: (Overall)-- June 10, 1949 to last known in 1959.
Reason for Closure: N/A.
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 d[email protected]. Thank you.
Sources:
The Salem News - Thursday, August 11, 1949; Thursday, March 27, 1952; Saturday, January 30, 1954; Wednesday, February 16, 1955; Tuesday, June 5, 1956; Friday, October 31, 1958; Friday, March 27, 1959; and Friday, July 27, 1959.
Salem Quaker - Salem High School Newsletter (many issues, one sample is shown).
Salem High School Year Book - page 125.
Date of issue: 08 July 2021.
For office use only: 13 p. (1 g, 11 np ad, 1 c.)
© Copyrighted by Dead-Rinks. All Rights Reserved. Jn 3:3 and 16.
Three investors were operators of this rink and they were, in alphabetically order of last name: Mr. and Mrs. Everett Hall, Bill Kozicky, and James Minamyer. Bill Kozicky was also the organist for the rink.
They began as an open air roller rink. Maybe this is why the noise complains. Read on.
They had a rough start because when they first opened that June of 1949, noise from the rink were heard in the neighborhood. This is why I needed that map to see where it was. If it was East 10th Street by Youngtown Street right where the cemetery is, that is understandable because many residents there including apartments. But on 62, which is a very long road, I do not know where but it did say North side of Salem according to The Salem News Thursday August 11, 1949 so that places somewhere on 62. Hard to tell where because of no East 10th Street that runs through 62. By the way 62 really is called US Highway 62 according to Google Map. That is modern day route. Must be one of those roads was called 62 back then.
The neighbors have complained about the noise. This sounded familiar. It has happened here with a series of 3 different bars under one roof in North Syracuse in 1990s. The operator of that series of bar understood and closed like that after about a month of operations.
They opened the rink in 1949 with plastic floor but it was not until 1951 they converted to Hardwood Maple floor. I believe that was when they covered the rink with Segmental Arch Steel Trusses to buffer the music noises that neighbors complained. It took about a year and half to fix the problem. Roof does reduce noises outside.
Back to this rink. It lasted till mysteriously end in 1959. Just ten years.
The Interior.
N/A.
The Exterior.
It had Segmental Arch Free Span Steel Trusses Cinderblocks-walled Arena like with Gable roof extension of the building which making it shaped like an L.
The Stats:
Rink Size: N/A.
Floor:
June 1949: Plastic
January 1951: Non-painted urethane coated Maple.
Floor Layout: N/A. (for both)
Building Size: N/A. Built: N/A. Demolished: N/A.
Type of Building:
June 1949: Open air rink (no roof) using Plastic floor
1951: Free-Span Steel Trusses Steel-Walled Warehouse - like Building. With Maple floor.
Roof: Gable.
Acres: N/A.
Operated: (Overall)-- June 10, 1949 to last known in 1959.
Reason for Closure: N/A.
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 d[email protected]. Thank you.
Sources:
The Salem News - Thursday, August 11, 1949; Thursday, March 27, 1952; Saturday, January 30, 1954; Wednesday, February 16, 1955; Tuesday, June 5, 1956; Friday, October 31, 1958; Friday, March 27, 1959; and Friday, July 27, 1959.
Salem Quaker - Salem High School Newsletter (many issues, one sample is shown).
Salem High School Year Book - page 125.
Date of issue: 08 July 2021.
For office use only: 13 p. (1 g, 11 np ad, 1 c.)
© Copyrighted by Dead-Rinks. All Rights Reserved. Jn 3:3 and 16.