A Postcard (credit unknown). Notice the auditorium is in background behind the big white building. You can notice the brown roof. The colors helped. Must be the artist of the time knew what color it was. This is a huge help.
Credit: Jamestown Trolley website. This was first opened in 1895. Likely it was taken that year. Notice how basic it appeared compared to next photo that was taken in around 1913. It was painted white walls which made a big difference. Also look at the stripes by the pillars. They are located different than the first photo. (see below, same credit).
Above and bottom two photos: Jamestown Trolley website. Above photo shows front. Must be around the Fourth of July because of the flags and banners. Very patriotic! They have a sign saying, not clearly but a dance event. Bottom two shows the aftermath of the fire. Bottom picture showed two which appeared to be women inspecting the grounds. Onlookers or were they inspectors?
Photo courtesy of Google Map. Notice the grounds the amusement park is gone. Today there is Lucille Ball Memorial Park on the right. You can see the statue there. The map is old because now there is the Chautauqua Harbor Hotel is on the grounds where the amusement park used to be. Noticed the tiny hexagon shaped island right by that semi-sphere dock was? That was right by where the water slide used to be. In a photo that was not clear but found the Auditorium in a photograph on the left of the slides and the corner of the shore is the same corner you see above on the left. The auditorium was where Dunham Avenue is located. Maybe where the Moose Lodge is located on the map. See photo below for antique view of the amusement park. Find auditorium on left. Bottom photo courtesy of Jamestown Trolley website. Many of the buildings at the park were spooky because they were burned down.
Celoron Auditorium, Celoron Park, Jamestown, NY
This was part of a Coney Island-styled amusement park and resorts at Celoron Park next to Jamestown, NY, the home of Lucy Ball, the First Lady of Comedian.
They built a Turkish-style Moor style auditorium made for several purposes. They had a convention center, an ice rink, and a roller skating rink at the facility. The management who began Celoron Amusement Park. Official name was The Peoples' Park at Celoron. The Park was one of earliest amusement park along with the Coney Island amusement parks as well. In fact, the park nicknamed as Coney Island of the West because of the amusement park and resort was sitting by the water. Many towns and cities had Coney Island-isque parks and resorts. One example was clearly in mind was on Onondaga Lake Park where they had amusement park rides and several resorts. All were demolished and half of that became a park where you can walk, mediate, have picnics, etc.
Well, the developers purchased the land in 1891 and they opened the amusement park and resort in 1893 and like many hotels today have convention center, they had their own convention center and that was the auditorium that was built.
The multi-purpose facility had two spired structure with moor themed top. The rest of the facility had two storys customized gable roof structure that housed rinks/convention center floor. Likely that was wood because the entire structure was made of wood thanks to understanding about the fire they had in 1920s that was burned down completely.
In the winter, they pour water in for pure water ice rink to allow skaters to ice skate in wintertimes. But in hot summers, they had a roller rink. They drained water due to warming and replace with wood floor for roller skating and trade shows.
The fire was intense and completely burned down as you can see in the photos. This was the first rink to burn down in that town. The replacement rink was the Celoron Skateland which also burned down and more recent rink, Evan's Skateland in Jamestown which was not in Celoron, NY (a suburb of Jamestown), also burned down and the people called it the Evan's Curse. All three rinks in that area burned down. There is no photos of interior but fantastic exterior of the rink.
The amusement park closed in 1962 and razed. The Skateland (see here) fell as well by fire and closed for good in late 1960s. Last remaining connection was by name, "Skateland" was in 2010s which also was burned down as I said above and see here.
The style of the auditorium was unique and was common at the time because having seen photos of women of 1890s and 1900s performed music dressed like the Moors and Gypsies. It made sense. Poorly constructed because they used wood in its entirely. Today convention centers are concrete or concrete blocks along with steel beams.
This was one of the first multi-purposes rink that in winters, its ice rink and as in summer, roller rink.
Exact location is unavailable.
Rink Size: N/A Floor: (winter) poured water into ice and (summer) wood floor lay-downs each spring. Floor Layout: N/A
Building Size: N/A Built: 1893
Type of Building: Unique Building. Wood structure. Destroyed: Fire in 1020.
Roof: Unique
Acres: N/A (Part of trolley park)
Operated: 1895 to 1920 (closed due to destroyed by fire).
Wanted: Any interior photos would be nice.
Awesome link to see more about Celoron Amusement Park and Resort, click here. Also here.
Sources: Jamestown Trolley website.
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This was part of a Coney Island-styled amusement park and resorts at Celoron Park next to Jamestown, NY, the home of Lucy Ball, the First Lady of Comedian.
They built a Turkish-style Moor style auditorium made for several purposes. They had a convention center, an ice rink, and a roller skating rink at the facility. The management who began Celoron Amusement Park. Official name was The Peoples' Park at Celoron. The Park was one of earliest amusement park along with the Coney Island amusement parks as well. In fact, the park nicknamed as Coney Island of the West because of the amusement park and resort was sitting by the water. Many towns and cities had Coney Island-isque parks and resorts. One example was clearly in mind was on Onondaga Lake Park where they had amusement park rides and several resorts. All were demolished and half of that became a park where you can walk, mediate, have picnics, etc.
Well, the developers purchased the land in 1891 and they opened the amusement park and resort in 1893 and like many hotels today have convention center, they had their own convention center and that was the auditorium that was built.
The multi-purpose facility had two spired structure with moor themed top. The rest of the facility had two storys customized gable roof structure that housed rinks/convention center floor. Likely that was wood because the entire structure was made of wood thanks to understanding about the fire they had in 1920s that was burned down completely.
In the winter, they pour water in for pure water ice rink to allow skaters to ice skate in wintertimes. But in hot summers, they had a roller rink. They drained water due to warming and replace with wood floor for roller skating and trade shows.
The fire was intense and completely burned down as you can see in the photos. This was the first rink to burn down in that town. The replacement rink was the Celoron Skateland which also burned down and more recent rink, Evan's Skateland in Jamestown which was not in Celoron, NY (a suburb of Jamestown), also burned down and the people called it the Evan's Curse. All three rinks in that area burned down. There is no photos of interior but fantastic exterior of the rink.
The amusement park closed in 1962 and razed. The Skateland (see here) fell as well by fire and closed for good in late 1960s. Last remaining connection was by name, "Skateland" was in 2010s which also was burned down as I said above and see here.
The style of the auditorium was unique and was common at the time because having seen photos of women of 1890s and 1900s performed music dressed like the Moors and Gypsies. It made sense. Poorly constructed because they used wood in its entirely. Today convention centers are concrete or concrete blocks along with steel beams.
This was one of the first multi-purposes rink that in winters, its ice rink and as in summer, roller rink.
Exact location is unavailable.
Rink Size: N/A Floor: (winter) poured water into ice and (summer) wood floor lay-downs each spring. Floor Layout: N/A
Building Size: N/A Built: 1893
Type of Building: Unique Building. Wood structure. Destroyed: Fire in 1020.
Roof: Unique
Acres: N/A (Part of trolley park)
Operated: 1895 to 1920 (closed due to destroyed by fire).
Wanted: Any interior photos would be nice.
Awesome link to see more about Celoron Amusement Park and Resort, click here. Also here.
Sources: Jamestown Trolley website.
© 2019 - 2020 Dead Rinks. All Rights Reserved.