Skateland Buckeye Lake Park, Buckeye Lake, OH. An aerial photo taken at the height of the park's era. It is a 12 acre park that does not look like 12 acres. Looks more like 20-25 acres. . The skating rink is on the left in that dark roof building while the Dip is next to it with parking lot next to the coaster. The Crystal Ballroom is shown above as well. The only remaining thing of the amusement park today is the park center water fountain which is clearly visible surroundings trees roughly in the middle of the photograph. Source: The Buckeye Lake website photo collection.
Skateland Buckeye Lake Park, Buckeye Lake, OH. This photo was taken at another time and in Black and White (the next photo was in COLOR!) Appears to date around 1952. The other being The Crystal Ballroom. Source: The Buckeye Lake website photo collection.
Skateland Buckeye Lake Park, Buckeye Lake, OH. This was a nice color photo of the gate booth. This was taken in between 1948 and 1954. Same with the other photograph of Skateland in background. The date of the photo shown because of the automobile. Anyone know about his model? The other being The Crystal Ballroom. Source: The Buckeye Lake website photo collection.
Palais de Danse Buckeye Lake Park, Buckeye Lake, OH. Palais de Danse is shown in original look in 1925 when this was taken. The two men on the main path are presumably workers because there are no patrons at the park at the time. This building was one of the two largest buildings at the trolley park. The other being The Crystal Ballroom. Source: The Buckeye Lake website photo collection.
Palais de Danse Buckeye Lake Park, Buckeye Lake, OH. Palais de Danse is seen in background as spectaclars watching swimmers/bathers at the beach. The Dip Roller Coaster is also seen.in background. I believe this could have been the final year for Palais de Danse which means Palace of Dance. Taken in 1931. Source: The Buckeye Lake website photo collection. Digitally remastered by Dead-Rinks (cleaned up, removed postal date stamp smears and 3 blots).
Skateland Roller Skating Rink Buckeye Lake Park, Buckeye Lake, OH. You can see Skateland in the background. It was a new sign put up where the old Palais de Danse sign used to be. Same building though. Barely seen in this photograph. Source: The Buckeye Lake website photo collection. Digitally remastered by Dead-Rinks (brighter, more colorful to attempt to make it more modern-like photograph). Original was slight darker, likely Technicolor Kodak film.
Skateland Roller Skating Rink Buckeye Lake Park, Buckeye Lake, OH. The Rockette - style show with 23 females. They are shown with their trainer and likely their director. Noticed the arena itself was oval! Round! Rarely a rink is rounded like the one currently operating in Burnham Park the Philippines. Source: Buckeye Lake History.
Skateland Roller Skating Rink Buckeye Lake Park, Buckeye Lake, OH. These were the markers. Shown is the rear section of the historic marker. Today it is a historic public park. A heritage site. Source: Remarkable Ohio.
Skateland Roller Skating Rink Buckeye Lake Park, Buckeye Lake, OH. These were the markers. Shown is the rear section of the historic marker. Today it is a historic public park. A heritage site. Source: Remarkable Ohio.
Skateland Roller Skating Rink Buckeye Lake Park, Buckeye Lake, OH. The aerial map showed the location of the old Buckeye Lake Park. It is now called North Shore State Park. While the other Buckeye Lake Park is at another location seen on the Google Map. That location elsewhere is the wrong park. This is the correct park. Please do not follow Google Map. Please follow this one. If any of you are interested in seeing where the old rink and park, this is the place to go to. Not much to see there except you can see the round thing that remans. (see in between the two major parking lot) And that is the water fountain from the old park still there. Compare to the photo way above where the old park was seen was facing south. This Google Map is facing north. Source: Google.
Palais de Danse Buckeye Lake Park, Buckeye Lake, OH
Skateland Roller Skating Rink Buckeye Lake Park, Buckeye Lake, OH
Danceland Roller Skating Rink Buckeye Lake Park, Buckeye Lake, OH
Skateland Roller Skating Rink Buckeye Lake Park, Buckeye Lake, OH
Danceland Roller Skating Rink Buckeye Lake Park, Buckeye Lake, OH
Danceland Roller Skating Rink and before that, Palais de Danse and, Skateland were part of the Buckeye Lake Park in Buckeye Lake, Ohio. In the beginning, they constructed a 4 mile long dam to funnel water for the Ohio and Erie Canal (not related to New York State's Erie Canal) in the mid-1820 out of the Licking Summit Reservoir. After that in 1894, the state renamed it as Buckeye Lake and redevelop the area into a recreational park. Originally it was for tourists. The first Hotels opened in 1902 and the Interurban Trains brought the visitors.
The Columbus, Buckeye Lake, and Newark Traction Company, a trolley company developed an electric park, a type of a trolley park (there were 3 kinds- Electric, standard amusement, and picnic/public park here, bringing in patrons on interurban cars (trolleys) between 1904 and 1929. The trolley park had the The Dips Roller Coaster built and operated in 1931. It was a popular destination at the time. Likely Palais de Dance was operational as early as 1904 until the amusement park expanded and the rink was named Danceland and after, Skateland. There are no specific dates for successions.
The nine-acres park had free admission during summers. Buckeye Lake Park included the "Dips" roller coaster, a 100-by-200-foot swimming pool, Danceland Roller Skating Rink, and many amusement rides and concessions.
During the park's heyday in the 1940s, there were many big bands and musicians including those of Louie Armstrong sang at the Palais de Danse, adn Guy Lombardo, Glenn Miller, and Tommy Dorsey with his singer Frank Sinatra played at the Crystal Ballroom and Lake Breeze Pier Ballroom.
The Dips Roller Coaster had an accident in the summer of 1958, during it's 28th year. It was never operated again. Good news that there were no fatalities from the wreck but several people were injured and were transported to the Newark, Ohio Hospital. This might have been the start of the decline of the park because usually Roller Coasters are main attractions. This affected the roller rink too. Once something goes, everything else goes.
Like many Trolley Parks, Buckeye Lake Park declined in the 1960s and was subsequently acquired by the state in the year 1970 after attempted to revive it as Country Western Theme Park. The adjacent fountain is the last remaining feature of Buckeye Lake Park.
As for the rink, Skateland in 1930s and 1940s had 2000 to 3000 skaters each week. Wow, 2 to 3 thousand skaters a week. Recall back then rinks opened every day as part of the trolley parks and amusement parks in first half century. Usually two sessions daily. Afternoons and evenings. Sometimes three sessions a day. Say 14 sessions a week, that brings to an average of 214 skaters per session. Not many. That was 214 dollars per session they made on admission based on 10 cents. 428 Dollars a day. This is not counting 10 cents per skate rental. Plus concession. This means roughly 850 Dollars just for 2 sessions a day plus skate rentals alone. Likely 1000 USD a day with concessions as gross revenue. 350K USD per year before net, taxes, and vendor lease agreement expenses with the park. Many rinks were vendors at the amusement parks. This paragraph is my humble opinion.
During Skateland history, they had a routine show featuring a Radio City Hall Rockette style group of females skating in their costumes.
To find this old park, it sounded bit complicated. Do not follow Google Map's because Google points to the wrong State Park. Right name but wrong park. It is the North Shore Park and it is photographed from Google Map where the location. You need to go to
The name for Palais de Danse is a French name for Dance Palace.
The Interior.
They had a 30,000 Square Feet Hardwood Maple floor that was round layout in Rotunda according to the website, Buckeye Lake History.
The Exterior.
It was a domed arena where the rink was. It was a very unusual design. A dome is perfectly curved to the tip but this style was more like a brimmed soup bowl upside down. It is Reverse Ogee Arch. It is like a Sigmoid Curve when dealing with Statistics, math. and even Bell-Curve.
This makes one of rarest roller rink with this architectural design. Some rinks in Ohio at the time were also almost extact the same roof design but a little different curve and arches. Slightly different. Clearly Reverse Ogee Arch was the popular architecture feature in first half 20th Century Ohio. To each its own. Like Googie is common to Southern California as Art Deco was to Miami Beach and South Beach as Cape Cod and Colonialism is to North East US, and Georgian is to Georgia, you get the idea.
The Stats:
Rink Size: 30,000 SF. Floor: Maple. Floor Layout: Round, Rotunda.
Building Size: N/A. Built/Renovations: c. 1904 / NA.. Demolished: 1970 for returning to public park.
Type of Building: Free-Span Steel Trusses Blocks - Walled Dome arena - like Building.
Roof: Reverse Ogee Arch Dome with Bonnet Sigmoid Curve Roof.
Acres: ~12.0000 AC.
Operated: (Overall)-- c. 1904 to 1970. (66 years!)
Palais de Danse: c. 1904 to 1932.
Skateland Roller Skating Rink: 1932 to end of 1940s
Danceland Roller Skating Rink: End of 1940s to 1970.
Reason for Closure: N/A.
Palais de Danse: Likely reorganized park in 1929 to become full fledged amusement park.
Skateland Roller Skating Rink: N/A.
Danceland Roller Skating Rink: Likely as part of the park all declined, state bought it and shut it down, demolished it.
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.
Sources:
Remarkable Ohio - Buckeye Lake Park.
Buckeye Lake History
The Buckeye Lake - Official website on the trolley park.
Date of issue: 24 August 2021.
For office use only: 10
© Copyrighted by Dead-Rinks. All Rights Reserved. Jn 3:3 and 16.
The Columbus, Buckeye Lake, and Newark Traction Company, a trolley company developed an electric park, a type of a trolley park (there were 3 kinds- Electric, standard amusement, and picnic/public park here, bringing in patrons on interurban cars (trolleys) between 1904 and 1929. The trolley park had the The Dips Roller Coaster built and operated in 1931. It was a popular destination at the time. Likely Palais de Dance was operational as early as 1904 until the amusement park expanded and the rink was named Danceland and after, Skateland. There are no specific dates for successions.
The nine-acres park had free admission during summers. Buckeye Lake Park included the "Dips" roller coaster, a 100-by-200-foot swimming pool, Danceland Roller Skating Rink, and many amusement rides and concessions.
During the park's heyday in the 1940s, there were many big bands and musicians including those of Louie Armstrong sang at the Palais de Danse, adn Guy Lombardo, Glenn Miller, and Tommy Dorsey with his singer Frank Sinatra played at the Crystal Ballroom and Lake Breeze Pier Ballroom.
The Dips Roller Coaster had an accident in the summer of 1958, during it's 28th year. It was never operated again. Good news that there were no fatalities from the wreck but several people were injured and were transported to the Newark, Ohio Hospital. This might have been the start of the decline of the park because usually Roller Coasters are main attractions. This affected the roller rink too. Once something goes, everything else goes.
Like many Trolley Parks, Buckeye Lake Park declined in the 1960s and was subsequently acquired by the state in the year 1970 after attempted to revive it as Country Western Theme Park. The adjacent fountain is the last remaining feature of Buckeye Lake Park.
As for the rink, Skateland in 1930s and 1940s had 2000 to 3000 skaters each week. Wow, 2 to 3 thousand skaters a week. Recall back then rinks opened every day as part of the trolley parks and amusement parks in first half century. Usually two sessions daily. Afternoons and evenings. Sometimes three sessions a day. Say 14 sessions a week, that brings to an average of 214 skaters per session. Not many. That was 214 dollars per session they made on admission based on 10 cents. 428 Dollars a day. This is not counting 10 cents per skate rental. Plus concession. This means roughly 850 Dollars just for 2 sessions a day plus skate rentals alone. Likely 1000 USD a day with concessions as gross revenue. 350K USD per year before net, taxes, and vendor lease agreement expenses with the park. Many rinks were vendors at the amusement parks. This paragraph is my humble opinion.
During Skateland history, they had a routine show featuring a Radio City Hall Rockette style group of females skating in their costumes.
To find this old park, it sounded bit complicated. Do not follow Google Map's because Google points to the wrong State Park. Right name but wrong park. It is the North Shore Park and it is photographed from Google Map where the location. You need to go to
The name for Palais de Danse is a French name for Dance Palace.
The Interior.
They had a 30,000 Square Feet Hardwood Maple floor that was round layout in Rotunda according to the website, Buckeye Lake History.
The Exterior.
It was a domed arena where the rink was. It was a very unusual design. A dome is perfectly curved to the tip but this style was more like a brimmed soup bowl upside down. It is Reverse Ogee Arch. It is like a Sigmoid Curve when dealing with Statistics, math. and even Bell-Curve.
This makes one of rarest roller rink with this architectural design. Some rinks in Ohio at the time were also almost extact the same roof design but a little different curve and arches. Slightly different. Clearly Reverse Ogee Arch was the popular architecture feature in first half 20th Century Ohio. To each its own. Like Googie is common to Southern California as Art Deco was to Miami Beach and South Beach as Cape Cod and Colonialism is to North East US, and Georgian is to Georgia, you get the idea.
The Stats:
Rink Size: 30,000 SF. Floor: Maple. Floor Layout: Round, Rotunda.
Building Size: N/A. Built/Renovations: c. 1904 / NA.. Demolished: 1970 for returning to public park.
Type of Building: Free-Span Steel Trusses Blocks - Walled Dome arena - like Building.
Roof: Reverse Ogee Arch Dome with Bonnet Sigmoid Curve Roof.
Acres: ~12.0000 AC.
Operated: (Overall)-- c. 1904 to 1970. (66 years!)
Palais de Danse: c. 1904 to 1932.
Skateland Roller Skating Rink: 1932 to end of 1940s
Danceland Roller Skating Rink: End of 1940s to 1970.
Reason for Closure: N/A.
Palais de Danse: Likely reorganized park in 1929 to become full fledged amusement park.
Skateland Roller Skating Rink: N/A.
Danceland Roller Skating Rink: Likely as part of the park all declined, state bought it and shut it down, demolished it.
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.
Sources:
Remarkable Ohio - Buckeye Lake Park.
Buckeye Lake History
The Buckeye Lake - Official website on the trolley park.
Date of issue: 24 August 2021.
For office use only: 10
© Copyrighted by Dead-Rinks. All Rights Reserved. Jn 3:3 and 16.