Flamingo Roller Rink Larimer Avenue at Auburn Street, East Liberty, PA. Sorry it was grainy for a 1952 Aircraft photo sessions by the USGS. Source: USGS.
Flamingo Roller Rink Larimer Avenue at Auburn Street, East Liberty, PA. Advertisement in The Pittsburgh Catholic - Thursday 14 February 1945, Page 8, 4th Column.
Flamingo Roller Rink Larimer Avenue at Auburn Street, East Liberty, PA. A huge fire occurred in July 1954. You are seeing from the corner of Larimer Avenue at Auburn Street. You are seeing Auburn Street where cars, media, and fire ladder truck were on. It was reported that two men on the roof of Texaco Gas Station were reporters according to this site,
Flamingo Roller Rink Larimer Avenue at Auburn Street, East Liberty, PA. They had an apartment complex built on the former rink site and that was demolished as well. Now it is new modern apartment complexes. Taken in 2007. Source: Google.
Flamingo Roller Rink Larimer Avenue at Auburn Street, East Liberty, PA. This is the Auburn Street taken from Larimer Avenue. That grassy field and trees directly from the street was where the roller rink was. Texaco was on the left where that automobile was parked. Source: Google.
Flamingo Roller Rink Larimer Avenue at Auburn Street, East Liberty, PA. Before the renovations changed the landscape to make the street longer, straighter, and built houses. Taken in 2011. Source: Google.
Flamingo Roller Rink Larimer Avenue at Auburn Street, East Liberty, PA. Before the renovations changed the landscape to make the street longer, straighter, and built houses. Taken in 2021. Source: Google.
Flamingo Roller Rink
Larimer Avenue at Auburn Street, East Liberty, PA
Larimer Avenue at Auburn Street, East Liberty, PA
Flamingo Roller Rink Larimer Avenue at Auburn Street, East Liberty, Pennsylvania was a rink that first operated around 1945 according to the AP article explaining that the advertisements first appeared that year. Unfortunately, it short lived due to a massive fire that burned down the rink in July 1954.
Flamingo Roller Rink (Larimer Avenue at Auburn Street, East Liberty): Its first newspaper advertisements appear to date form 1945. It burned down in 1954.
At the time of the rink was opened, There were two rolling skating rinks, five bowling alleys, and countless movie theaters in East Liberty for entertainment and recreation for the Italians who settled in this town after legally relocated from Italy as, again, legal immigrants who came to the United States since most of them arrived in 1890s to 1910. But this was in Mid-20th Century. ( Giovanni Battista Verona PA website, about quarter way down of this very lengthy website on the history of Italians who settled in the area.) Likely Flamingo was owned and operated by Italians. The other rink was nearby, in fact on the same street! The other rink being The Lexington Roller Palace 33 Larimer Avenue which is right down the road. Flamingo would have according to the photo map from USGS and Google, the 200 block of Larimer Avenue).
The Interior.
N/A.
The Exterior.
Only photo I can find for the moment is the USGS Map showing a huge building with part Gable roof that was raised higher than the Flatted Roof and other smaller Gabled Roof. It looked like it was added on before the fire OR the appearance looked like early 20th Century design that was the norm to have several directions of the Gabled roof such as T-Gabled, Combined, or whatever Gabled it was. It was common at the time. For me, to compare, it would be like several buildings at the New York State Fair. It did look large building The fire in that photo appeared to be nearing the end of the massive fire that destroyed the rink completely to the ground. So, the material may have been pretty much wood built but not sure.
I am sure pretty much all photographs were destroyed in the fire when the operator or manager kept in the office. My advice, make duplicates. Have some at your home! And the other at the rink or donate some to Dead-Rinks or some local library or even historical societies.
The Stats:
Rink Size: N/A. Floor: Likely Maple. Floor Layout: N/A.
Building Size: N/A. Built: 1945? Renovations: N/A. Demolished: Fire in July 1954.
Type of Building: N/A.
Roof: N/A.
Acres: N/A.
Organ: N/A. (May have had an organ.
Operated: (Overall)-- 1945 to July 1954.
Reason for Closure: Massive fire in July 1954. I believe they decided not to rebuilt.
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:
Giovanni Battista Verona PA - blog. (Long article, it is around 1/4 way down from top and you will find it. They mentioned two roller rinks and both were on the same street, just 2 blocks apart!).
AP - Article about rinks in Pittsburgh, PA.
Issu - Pittsburgh City Newspaper page 4 on article about the Italian community. It mentioned 2 rinks.
Carneige Museum of Art - Photo.
The Pittsburgh Press - Sunday, 18 July 1954, Page 1
The Pittsburgh Catholic - Thursday 14 February 1945, Page 8, 4th Column.
Worth to visit:
None. Burned down in 1954.
Date of issue: 19 May 2022.
For office use only: 7.
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Flamingo Roller Rink (Larimer Avenue at Auburn Street, East Liberty): Its first newspaper advertisements appear to date form 1945. It burned down in 1954.
At the time of the rink was opened, There were two rolling skating rinks, five bowling alleys, and countless movie theaters in East Liberty for entertainment and recreation for the Italians who settled in this town after legally relocated from Italy as, again, legal immigrants who came to the United States since most of them arrived in 1890s to 1910. But this was in Mid-20th Century. ( Giovanni Battista Verona PA website, about quarter way down of this very lengthy website on the history of Italians who settled in the area.) Likely Flamingo was owned and operated by Italians. The other rink was nearby, in fact on the same street! The other rink being The Lexington Roller Palace 33 Larimer Avenue which is right down the road. Flamingo would have according to the photo map from USGS and Google, the 200 block of Larimer Avenue).
The Interior.
N/A.
The Exterior.
Only photo I can find for the moment is the USGS Map showing a huge building with part Gable roof that was raised higher than the Flatted Roof and other smaller Gabled Roof. It looked like it was added on before the fire OR the appearance looked like early 20th Century design that was the norm to have several directions of the Gabled roof such as T-Gabled, Combined, or whatever Gabled it was. It was common at the time. For me, to compare, it would be like several buildings at the New York State Fair. It did look large building The fire in that photo appeared to be nearing the end of the massive fire that destroyed the rink completely to the ground. So, the material may have been pretty much wood built but not sure.
I am sure pretty much all photographs were destroyed in the fire when the operator or manager kept in the office. My advice, make duplicates. Have some at your home! And the other at the rink or donate some to Dead-Rinks or some local library or even historical societies.
The Stats:
Rink Size: N/A. Floor: Likely Maple. Floor Layout: N/A.
Building Size: N/A. Built: 1945? Renovations: N/A. Demolished: Fire in July 1954.
Type of Building: N/A.
Roof: N/A.
Acres: N/A.
Organ: N/A. (May have had an organ.
Operated: (Overall)-- 1945 to July 1954.
Reason for Closure: Massive fire in July 1954. I believe they decided not to rebuilt.
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:
Giovanni Battista Verona PA - blog. (Long article, it is around 1/4 way down from top and you will find it. They mentioned two roller rinks and both were on the same street, just 2 blocks apart!).
AP - Article about rinks in Pittsburgh, PA.
Issu - Pittsburgh City Newspaper page 4 on article about the Italian community. It mentioned 2 rinks.
Carneige Museum of Art - Photo.
The Pittsburgh Press - Sunday, 18 July 1954, Page 1
The Pittsburgh Catholic - Thursday 14 February 1945, Page 8, 4th Column.
Worth to visit:
None. Burned down in 1954.
Date of issue: 19 May 2022.
For office use only: 7.
Disclaimer: 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 differences result between two 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.
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. All Rights Reserved. Jn 3:3 to 16. Deut. 32:7