Carousel Skate Center 4745 Apollo Road, Titusville, FL. This building paints are fading. That is because the rinks closed back in 2006! That long ago! Source: Facebook - Carousel Roller Rink Alumni.
Carousel Skate Center 4745 Apollo Road, Titusville, FL. I love drawings, renderings, and blueprints. I am a Freelance Designer and Drafter since I was 10 years old (yes, first client at age 10 just for a 3 side view drawing for a retiree to built a new table). This is awesome drawing! Whoever did this, you are good! Source: Facebook - Carousel Roller Rink Alumni.
Carousel Skate Center 4745 Apollo Road, Titusville, FL. I love drawings, renderings, and blueprints. I am a Freelance Designer and Drafter since I was 10 years old (yes, first client at age 10 just for a 3 side view drawing for a retiree to built a new table). This is awesome drawing! Whoever did this, you are good! This is second drawing shown here to show the Trusses. I see it was stamped and dated 21 January 2003. That was a long time ago. Was it supposed to be for a new rink opening? Who knows. Gotta ask this other Mark. Source: Facebook - Carousel Roller Rink Alumni.
Carousel Skate Center 4745 Apollo Road, Titusville, FL. I love drawings, renderings, and blueprints. I am a Freelance Designer and Drafter since I was 10 years old (yes, first client at age 10 just for a 3 side view drawing for a retiree to built a new table). This blue print showed the date of made-- 19 August 1971. That was to built a new rink at the time. There were no full page view blueprints. Sorry. I have always wanted to see blueprint of a rink but there is not one from anybody in more than 3 years now. Hmm. Source: Facebook - Carousel Roller Rink Alumni.
Carousel Skate Center 4745 Apollo Road, Titusville, FL. This is the only interior I can see pretty much shown background instead of focusing on skaters type of photo. The colors there were popular at the time. Sky Blue with White. Common in 1950s though but those colors were likely in 1970s. But this photo appeared to be taken in 1980s because of the children's hair. Source: Facebook - Carousel Roller Rink Alumni.
Carousel Skate Center 4745 Apollo Road, Titusville, FL. That was the original logo and mascot. Yes, it was Snoopy but... anyway. Nice logo! Source: Facebook - Carousel Roller Rink Alumni.
Carousel Skate Center 4745 Apollo Road, Titusville, FL. Floor Guard shirt. Ha, funny, I was thinking of this color for Rinkwatch, if it was made into a movie starring David Hasselhoff of Baywatch fame as Los Angeles rink operator owning a few rinks and the floor guards dress like the Baywatch counterparts. His floor guards have red shirts with white crosses on both front and back. A fake movie poster I made. Haha. Source: Facebook - Carousel Roller Rink Alumni.
Carousel Skate Center 4745 Apollo Road, Titusville, FL. A T-shirt of 1980s. Source: Facebook - Carousel Roller Rink Alumni.
Carousel Skate Center 4745 Apollo Road, Titusville, FL. Wow, what an abandoned rink! C.W. gave me about 50 to 60 photographs of this dead rink in Titusville, Florida. Looked like someone was living in there because of the 5-er as we RVers call it (5th Wheel or Fifth Wheel) with the door open. Since this is on Atlantic Ocean side and the hurricane... that shell can be blown off in an instant. Great job C.W.! The opened side was likely the back and the front wall with the blue doors are still up. Did the Hulk break that door down? And is that one of the empty barrel dumped over to the sea with Jimmy Hoffa from this place? Haha. No, I doubt both occurred here. Source: Photo provided by C.W.
Cartwheels Roller Skate Rink 4745 Apollo Rd Titusville, FL
Carousel Skate Center 4745 Apollo Road, Titusville, FL
Carousel Skate Center 4745 Apollo Road, Titusville, FL
This rink was located at a very end of a street called Apollo Road. Good thing Google Map pointed to the former rink location. It was closed back in 2006 according to Loopnet and sold. It was built in 1968 with a warehouse style building with gable roof. It was right on the end of residential area and beautiful forestation right by the rink. The Top view with the pin was pinned in middle of the forest but I was able to point out to the building. It apparently was part of a huge property.
It had two lives-as Cartwheels and as Carousel Skate Center. Carousel was opened in 1971 or 1972 thanks to the blueprints (10 February 2022). but later became Cartwheels which closed in 2006. So, no other information can be known about those two and when they closed and reopened.
Thanks to the person who took those pictures, C.W. which really helpful to see how this rink looked long after the rink closed.
UPDATE! -- 10 February 2022.
I received an email from someone who is a member of a group on Facebook regarding Carousel Rink and here is what he has to say --
On the page for this you mention "not even a [F]acebook page"....actually, there is! "Carousel Roller Rink Alumni". My mom taught there in the late 60s/early 70s. All kinds of photos on FB.
Oops! I apologize to Stuart on FB page and to everyone who skated there and other skate rink fans on Dead-Rinks. Correction is made and link is provided in Search. You can do it here too-- Facebook - Carousel Roller Rink Alumni.
I think what happened was that when I do research, I put the name of the rink and city, and sometimes with street name on it and I do research. I get results on search engines and I apparently did not see Facebook. That must be changed now. I did experiment recently on another rink that it was changed each time you use search so gotta search bit more. Yes sir! Haha.
Rink Size: N/A Floor: N/A Floor Layout: N/A
Building Size: 18,789 SF Built: 1971 (proof with blueprints shown on Facebook)
Demolished: Abandoned since 2006. See photos!
Type of Building: Free Span Steel Warehouse Building.
Roof: Gable
Acres: 1.7 Acres
Operated: Built in 1971
Cartwheels: 1971 or 1972 to ?
Carousel: ? to 2006
Reason for Closure:
Cartwheels: N/A
Carousel: N/A Was up for sale in 2006 according to Loopnet. Purchased by Mark Howell in December 2019. His intentions are unknown.
Wanted: Information regarding photos, both interior and exterior, what material was on the rink floor. etc.
Sources:
Loopnet
Corporate Wiki
City-Search
Email - C.W. (2 February 2021).
Email - S. N. (10 February 2022).
Facebook - Carousel Roller Rink Alumni.
Worth to visit:
Yes, you can, google the map but FIRST, be sure to ask the owner, Mark Howell (find him in Facebook) and ask for permission because he has "No Trespassing." Dead-Rinks and Mark Falso are not responsible for your legal and physical injury. All are your responsibility. Always obey laws, regulations, and signs. (If you see purple paint on fence, STAY AWAY because it means owner has right to shoot you if you are on HIS/HER property). Thank you for understanding.
Date of Issue: 2020.
Updated: 2 February 2021.
Updated: 10 February 2022. (Exactly a year plus days!)
For Office Only: 19.
© Dead Rinks. All Rights Reserved.
It had two lives-as Cartwheels and as Carousel Skate Center. Carousel was opened in 1971 or 1972 thanks to the blueprints (10 February 2022). but later became Cartwheels which closed in 2006. So, no other information can be known about those two and when they closed and reopened.
Thanks to the person who took those pictures, C.W. which really helpful to see how this rink looked long after the rink closed.
UPDATE! -- 10 February 2022.
I received an email from someone who is a member of a group on Facebook regarding Carousel Rink and here is what he has to say --
On the page for this you mention "not even a [F]acebook page"....actually, there is! "Carousel Roller Rink Alumni". My mom taught there in the late 60s/early 70s. All kinds of photos on FB.
Oops! I apologize to Stuart on FB page and to everyone who skated there and other skate rink fans on Dead-Rinks. Correction is made and link is provided in Search. You can do it here too-- Facebook - Carousel Roller Rink Alumni.
I think what happened was that when I do research, I put the name of the rink and city, and sometimes with street name on it and I do research. I get results on search engines and I apparently did not see Facebook. That must be changed now. I did experiment recently on another rink that it was changed each time you use search so gotta search bit more. Yes sir! Haha.
Rink Size: N/A Floor: N/A Floor Layout: N/A
Building Size: 18,789 SF Built: 1971 (proof with blueprints shown on Facebook)
Demolished: Abandoned since 2006. See photos!
Type of Building: Free Span Steel Warehouse Building.
Roof: Gable
Acres: 1.7 Acres
Operated: Built in 1971
Cartwheels: 1971 or 1972 to ?
Carousel: ? to 2006
Reason for Closure:
Cartwheels: N/A
Carousel: N/A Was up for sale in 2006 according to Loopnet. Purchased by Mark Howell in December 2019. His intentions are unknown.
Wanted: Information regarding photos, both interior and exterior, what material was on the rink floor. etc.
Sources:
Loopnet
Corporate Wiki
City-Search
Email - C.W. (2 February 2021).
Email - S. N. (10 February 2022).
Facebook - Carousel Roller Rink Alumni.
Worth to visit:
Yes, you can, google the map but FIRST, be sure to ask the owner, Mark Howell (find him in Facebook) and ask for permission because he has "No Trespassing." Dead-Rinks and Mark Falso are not responsible for your legal and physical injury. All are your responsibility. Always obey laws, regulations, and signs. (If you see purple paint on fence, STAY AWAY because it means owner has right to shoot you if you are on HIS/HER property). Thank you for understanding.
Date of Issue: 2020.
Updated: 2 February 2021.
Updated: 10 February 2022. (Exactly a year plus days!)
For Office Only: 19.
© Dead Rinks. All Rights Reserved.