Wheel-A- While 6805 E. Clinton St., Clinton, MD. Pretty gloomy photo of the building. It was already set up as church there when they took photo. Prior to the church were Clinton Skating Center and Wheels-A-While rink. Need photos of those former rinks. Source: LoopNet.
Wheel-A- While 6805 E. Clinton St., Clinton, MD. Prior to the church were Clinton Skating Center and Wheels-A-While rink. Need photos of those former rinks. Source: LoopNet.
True Light Ministries 6805 E. Clinton St., Clinton, MD. This is the church in present day prior to the church were Clinton Skating Center and Wheels-A-While rink. Need photos of those former rinks. Source: LoopNet.
Clinton Skating Center 6805 E. Clinton St., Clinton, MD
Wheel-A- While 6805 E. Clinton St., Clinton, MD (Wheel-Awhile, Inc)
Wheel-A- While 6805 E. Clinton St., Clinton, MD (Wheel-Awhile, Inc)
Clinton Skating Center was on East Clinton Street in Clinton, Maryland! Whew, Many Clintons! The name of the rink, street, and town. Clinton this or that.. Anyway, It could have been named after a different Clinton than you think he is. Maybe DeWitt Clinton? I will find out eventually. Anyway!
Also at one time, it was Wheel-A-While Skating Rink. Both are defunct and now a church. Before it was for the physical need, now spiritual need. Praise the LORD but wish they kept as the rink at other times than having on Sunday morning for church. Simple. Maybe it is private for church only. Who knows.
The rink building is quite similar to at least two other rinks. One I just completed- Calvert Roller Skating Center. Clearly it was operated by same owner who built and opened both rinks. Likely the names were quite different for each rink. Usually the same name. Like you have all the fast food restaurants every other block near you. Same as this. With only exception it was building.
The building was of course, in Steel walled building with Steel truss built. It had that uprising reverse hip canopy. I call that the Falso Industries canopy. It is similar to Salt-Box design that the old fast food restaurants of 1950s had (McDonalds, Burger King, Bob Barkers, etc). Well, the Falso Industries canopy is slant upward out. It is a Googie design that my father designed for the Falso Industries in 1950s. In fact, it is still in that design.
The way it was designed to welcome in skaters at those rinks. I have no photos of interior and exterior when it was a rink. Now I see are photos of this church is set up. See photo.
UPDATE! -- 01 July 2022.
1. Wheel-A-While (WAW), (legal entity was actually Wheel Awhile, Inc, but all flyers and etc. had two hyphens, Hence: Wheel-A-While..with an acronym of WAW, notice the similarity to America On Wheels known as AOW, That is due to the fact Jack and Nancy Beckers were top rate professionals for Pat Aluise at AOW, Bladensburg, two towns removed from Seabrook,
2. Seabrook was almost simultaneously opening when Bladensburg went to the grave in a humongous fire on Feb 16,1971. Construction started, by court records I researched on Seabrook in June 1969, with some delay by litigation and I only assumed it opened about a year later +- in mid-late 1970, or early 197171 as WAW first rink. I worked personally as [Floor Guard] and [Assistant Manager] and hired by Jack himself while stationed at Ft. Meade, MD. (played Army weekdays, and roller rink guy weekends and all my time off.) My understanding was Jack Becker put everything he had into the build out, Blood, Sweat, and for sure Tears, but it got built.
3. So understand this Wheel-A-While (WAW) and Seabrook roller rink was one and the same, 100% for sure, one and the same, thru the turn of the century or thereabouts. The corporation Jack and Nancy Becker developed was WAW, and each rink would be the name of the town followed by the word's "roller rink". Now you see the similarity between the names as they appear for AOW and WAW. Jack was smart, and Nancy smarter, and learned from the very best in the industry, AOW.
4. Now the error: The building you elude to in you para starting: One problem, was this: When I started working for WAW in 1973, (for sure because I was in Vietnam all of 72, and went to [Maryland] upon my return and to work for WAW, and play Army) a Italian sausage maker and wholesaler. I think at some point in the mid 1970's the man who did the sausage and owned the building and property next to the then new roller rink Jack built, retired or passed, and WAW, as it was then growing to its 7+ rinks needed an office and print shop (Jack originally worked as a pressman for [National] Geographic in DC.) I got transferred from Ft. Meade to Louisiana around late 1974 and came back to the area several times as my then wife was from Bladensburg, and visited the then [manager] (Dave Brown, not to be confused w/ the other Brown's father and son team of Alexandria and Rockville) at the rink, and then to see Jack and Nancy at the office, and normally off to lunch as we picked each others brains. The Becker's always gracious and bought, TY, May Jack R.I.P. I can always remember both jack and Nancy both saying to me: "What do you think" Smart, free advice is what it is, FREE, always listen and then decide to use it or not later
5. Jack designed his rinks w/o office space as his thoughts were, and he told me this once, Gimbals' does what Macy's does, and Wheel-A-While does what America on Wheels does. See the parallel. Even the pay scales were similar between the two. Two very, very smart men on the same road of live: Marvin Facher and Jack Becker Jack had a TWO very smart other design concepts I will tell you about in my next writing, but one flaw in another design concept. (Are there any renderings you have?)
I hope this clarifies the location issue relative to Seabrook, and more info to follow in my next writing. BUT please remove that entire paragraph, anyone in the "know" will say: I don't want to say it but it would not be flattering when erroneous info is listed, lol
The Interior.
The Exterior.
Free-Span Steel Trusses Steel - Walled Warehouse - like Building with Gabled with Falso Industries Hip Canopy. I named that because of the canopy slant upright.. Kind of like the 1950s fast food Salt-Box look that were on McDonalds, Burger Kings, Carrols, and many others.
Exposed Steel trusses on the wall exterior side. Many rinks had similar architecture design as this one.
The Stats:
Rink Size: N/A. Floor: N/A. Floor Layout: N/A.
Building Size: 20,000. Built: N/A. Renovations: N/A. Demolished: N/A.
Type of Building: Free-Span Steel Trusses Steel - Walled Warehouse - like Building.
Roof: Gabled with Falso Industries Hip Canopy.
Acres: 2.3761 AC.
Organ: N/A.
Operated: (Overall)-- N/A.
Reason for Closure: N/A.
Wanted: Information regarding exact dates of open/closed, why closed, size of rink, rink materials. Also photos/articles. Anyone knows or have photos, please let me know by emailing at [email protected]. Thank you. You can also use this form.
Sources:
Loopnet
Yelp
Email - Richard J. (01 July 2022).
True Light Ministries.
LoopNet 2 (more information)
Date of issue: 2019.
Updated: 01 July 2022.
For office use only: 2.
Worth to visit:
None unless you want to go worship there.
DISCLAIMER:
Dead-Rinks and Mark Falso are not responsible for your physical and legal injuries you may have caused. We do not endorse such illegal activities including breaking and entry of former rinks, malls, abandoned buildings, etc. 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, an International Commercial Archeology Preservation© Group. All Rights Reserved. Jn 3:3 to 16. Deut. 32:7.
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Sources: Loopnet, Yelp,
© 2019 - 2020 Dead Rinks. All Rights Reserved.
Also at one time, it was Wheel-A-While Skating Rink. Both are defunct and now a church. Before it was for the physical need, now spiritual need. Praise the LORD but wish they kept as the rink at other times than having on Sunday morning for church. Simple. Maybe it is private for church only. Who knows.
The rink building is quite similar to at least two other rinks. One I just completed- Calvert Roller Skating Center. Clearly it was operated by same owner who built and opened both rinks. Likely the names were quite different for each rink. Usually the same name. Like you have all the fast food restaurants every other block near you. Same as this. With only exception it was building.
The building was of course, in Steel walled building with Steel truss built. It had that uprising reverse hip canopy. I call that the Falso Industries canopy. It is similar to Salt-Box design that the old fast food restaurants of 1950s had (McDonalds, Burger King, Bob Barkers, etc). Well, the Falso Industries canopy is slant upward out. It is a Googie design that my father designed for the Falso Industries in 1950s. In fact, it is still in that design.
The way it was designed to welcome in skaters at those rinks. I have no photos of interior and exterior when it was a rink. Now I see are photos of this church is set up. See photo.
UPDATE! -- 01 July 2022.
1. Wheel-A-While (WAW), (legal entity was actually Wheel Awhile, Inc, but all flyers and etc. had two hyphens, Hence: Wheel-A-While..with an acronym of WAW, notice the similarity to America On Wheels known as AOW, That is due to the fact Jack and Nancy Beckers were top rate professionals for Pat Aluise at AOW, Bladensburg, two towns removed from Seabrook,
2. Seabrook was almost simultaneously opening when Bladensburg went to the grave in a humongous fire on Feb 16,1971. Construction started, by court records I researched on Seabrook in June 1969, with some delay by litigation and I only assumed it opened about a year later +- in mid-late 1970, or early 197171 as WAW first rink. I worked personally as [Floor Guard] and [Assistant Manager] and hired by Jack himself while stationed at Ft. Meade, MD. (played Army weekdays, and roller rink guy weekends and all my time off.) My understanding was Jack Becker put everything he had into the build out, Blood, Sweat, and for sure Tears, but it got built.
3. So understand this Wheel-A-While (WAW) and Seabrook roller rink was one and the same, 100% for sure, one and the same, thru the turn of the century or thereabouts. The corporation Jack and Nancy Becker developed was WAW, and each rink would be the name of the town followed by the word's "roller rink". Now you see the similarity between the names as they appear for AOW and WAW. Jack was smart, and Nancy smarter, and learned from the very best in the industry, AOW.
4. Now the error: The building you elude to in you para starting: One problem, was this: When I started working for WAW in 1973, (for sure because I was in Vietnam all of 72, and went to [Maryland] upon my return and to work for WAW, and play Army) a Italian sausage maker and wholesaler. I think at some point in the mid 1970's the man who did the sausage and owned the building and property next to the then new roller rink Jack built, retired or passed, and WAW, as it was then growing to its 7+ rinks needed an office and print shop (Jack originally worked as a pressman for [National] Geographic in DC.) I got transferred from Ft. Meade to Louisiana around late 1974 and came back to the area several times as my then wife was from Bladensburg, and visited the then [manager] (Dave Brown, not to be confused w/ the other Brown's father and son team of Alexandria and Rockville) at the rink, and then to see Jack and Nancy at the office, and normally off to lunch as we picked each others brains. The Becker's always gracious and bought, TY, May Jack R.I.P. I can always remember both jack and Nancy both saying to me: "What do you think" Smart, free advice is what it is, FREE, always listen and then decide to use it or not later
5. Jack designed his rinks w/o office space as his thoughts were, and he told me this once, Gimbals' does what Macy's does, and Wheel-A-While does what America on Wheels does. See the parallel. Even the pay scales were similar between the two. Two very, very smart men on the same road of live: Marvin Facher and Jack Becker Jack had a TWO very smart other design concepts I will tell you about in my next writing, but one flaw in another design concept. (Are there any renderings you have?)
I hope this clarifies the location issue relative to Seabrook, and more info to follow in my next writing. BUT please remove that entire paragraph, anyone in the "know" will say: I don't want to say it but it would not be flattering when erroneous info is listed, lol
The Interior.
The Exterior.
Free-Span Steel Trusses Steel - Walled Warehouse - like Building with Gabled with Falso Industries Hip Canopy. I named that because of the canopy slant upright.. Kind of like the 1950s fast food Salt-Box look that were on McDonalds, Burger Kings, Carrols, and many others.
Exposed Steel trusses on the wall exterior side. Many rinks had similar architecture design as this one.
The Stats:
Rink Size: N/A. Floor: N/A. Floor Layout: N/A.
Building Size: 20,000. Built: N/A. Renovations: N/A. Demolished: N/A.
Type of Building: Free-Span Steel Trusses Steel - Walled Warehouse - like Building.
Roof: Gabled with Falso Industries Hip Canopy.
Acres: 2.3761 AC.
Organ: N/A.
Operated: (Overall)-- N/A.
Reason for Closure: N/A.
Wanted: Information regarding exact dates of open/closed, why closed, size of rink, rink materials. Also photos/articles. Anyone knows or have photos, please let me know by emailing at [email protected]. Thank you. You can also use this form.
Sources:
Loopnet
Yelp
Email - Richard J. (01 July 2022).
True Light Ministries.
LoopNet 2 (more information)
Date of issue: 2019.
Updated: 01 July 2022.
For office use only: 2.
Worth to visit:
None unless you want to go worship there.
DISCLAIMER:
Dead-Rinks and Mark Falso are not responsible for your physical and legal injuries you may have caused. We do not endorse such illegal activities including breaking and entry of former rinks, malls, abandoned buildings, etc. 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, an International Commercial Archeology Preservation© Group. All Rights Reserved. Jn 3:3 to 16. Deut. 32:7.
OLD--
Sources: Loopnet, Yelp,
© 2019 - 2020 Dead Rinks. All Rights Reserved.