Courtesy of Chad Holberton. A postcard in good shape.
Courtesy of The Daily Record, Friday November 14, 1941. This showed that Eddie, the owner of the rink won his appeal that he was denied permission to built a rink there.
Eddie's Roller Palace, 155 Chestnut Street, Rochester, NY
Eddie's Roller Palace was supposedly the main rink of Rochester, NY of its day and largest in the State of New York at the time as well. It was a largest rink of its size that spans 90 feet wide X 200 feet long of its day. However, Rinks has gotten bigger as time went by. It was large for its standards at the time in first half 20th Century.
It was rather tall arched dome building which was an arena. It had large words, "Roller Skating" on the side of the building. The front had doors on one side of the front. Perhaps another set of doors on the other which may be an emergency exit doors which was almost unheard of for its time.
The exterior appears to be three stories high which was rather bit unusual for its time as skating rinks were slowly lowering its height.
The interior did show in a picture in the newspaper, Democrat and Chronicles showed exposed support truss beams and proudly displayed American colors-red, white, blue in COLOR advertisement, a rarity in 1950s for a newspaper which normally print in black and white. It shows it was very patriotic skating rink which was originally operated by a skate pro, Edward Baumeister who opened the rink in 1942 till 1953 when Dr. Harold M. Webster, President of the Rink and Thomas J. Sapere took over. But the shut down of the rink is unknown. After it was closed, the building was torn down in a very modern downtown Rochester. It now houses a SUNY campus building near skyscrapers in the city and cross the street is Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Park.
It would be very interesting if the rink was still in operation surrounding business offices, parks, and skyscrapers because of the type of business. Today for Rochester, most entertainment would be found near RIT and the New York State Thruway. Away from the city.
It has rich history of stickers and advertising for the rink.
This page will need more information and photos of interior and exterior of this quite interesting rink. Please do email!
Rink Size: 92' by 200' Floor: N/A Floor Layout: N/A
Building Size: N/A Built: Likely 1940-42 Demolished: Yes but unknown date.
Type of Building: Free Span Steel Cinderblock Building.
Roof: Segmental Arch/D- Roof
Acres: N/A
Operations: May 2, 1942 to ?
Reason for Closure: N/A
Wanted: Information regarding photos interior, exact date of closure, why closed?
Sources: FRRP, Flickr (Jordan Smith), Fulton History/The Daily Record, Friday November 14, 1941;
Photos Credits: All except for red and white sticker were from FRRP. Red and white sticker photo- Jordan Smith via Flickr. Others are credited under photos.
Date of issue: January 2019 Update: 23 April 2021.
© 2019 - 2020 Dead Rinks. All Rights Reserved.
It was rather tall arched dome building which was an arena. It had large words, "Roller Skating" on the side of the building. The front had doors on one side of the front. Perhaps another set of doors on the other which may be an emergency exit doors which was almost unheard of for its time.
The exterior appears to be three stories high which was rather bit unusual for its time as skating rinks were slowly lowering its height.
The interior did show in a picture in the newspaper, Democrat and Chronicles showed exposed support truss beams and proudly displayed American colors-red, white, blue in COLOR advertisement, a rarity in 1950s for a newspaper which normally print in black and white. It shows it was very patriotic skating rink which was originally operated by a skate pro, Edward Baumeister who opened the rink in 1942 till 1953 when Dr. Harold M. Webster, President of the Rink and Thomas J. Sapere took over. But the shut down of the rink is unknown. After it was closed, the building was torn down in a very modern downtown Rochester. It now houses a SUNY campus building near skyscrapers in the city and cross the street is Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Park.
It would be very interesting if the rink was still in operation surrounding business offices, parks, and skyscrapers because of the type of business. Today for Rochester, most entertainment would be found near RIT and the New York State Thruway. Away from the city.
It has rich history of stickers and advertising for the rink.
This page will need more information and photos of interior and exterior of this quite interesting rink. Please do email!
Rink Size: 92' by 200' Floor: N/A Floor Layout: N/A
Building Size: N/A Built: Likely 1940-42 Demolished: Yes but unknown date.
Type of Building: Free Span Steel Cinderblock Building.
Roof: Segmental Arch/D- Roof
Acres: N/A
Operations: May 2, 1942 to ?
Reason for Closure: N/A
Wanted: Information regarding photos interior, exact date of closure, why closed?
Sources: FRRP, Flickr (Jordan Smith), Fulton History/The Daily Record, Friday November 14, 1941;
Photos Credits: All except for red and white sticker were from FRRP. Red and white sticker photo- Jordan Smith via Flickr. Others are credited under photos.
Date of issue: January 2019 Update: 23 April 2021.
© 2019 - 2020 Dead Rinks. All Rights Reserved.