All courtesy of Google Map. Top photo showed beautiful theater! I love the style! Why tear it down for?! The museum could have bought that building as expansion and has more headspace or add second floor for museum use. Oh well! Their loss. But do please visit the museum. You are here on Dead-Rinks because you love history, right? Then go visit the 100th Meridian Museum.
Hayloft Skate Center 206 8th E., Cozad, NE
This rink used to be on 206 8th Street which sits next to the old torn down theater in the corner. It was a beautiful building but why tear this corner building down for? Terrible! You will see the photo above to compare with the new photo. I included the old theater because it is a dead theater as well so that was part of entertainment and qualifies to be here with Dead-Rinks.
It pale the size compared to the beautiful old theater that was torn down. It is in a one-story building where the museum now sits.
Although the museum still stands today, Hayloft Skate Center ran before the museum. They renovated the building in 1994 when the rink closed. The museum is called 100th Meridian and that is supposedly be in the center of the entire country. But roughly as the article says. So, that was pretty neat a roller rink was pretty much in center of the United States at one time! Skating was the center of our activities and life during 20th Century. The museum today is pretty much the center of our lives now because ever since 1990s, the Retro era has brought the history as a popular trend throughout 1990s and 2000s and maybe early 2010s.
The Interior.
N/A. Likely was a very small and narrow rink. Had a drop ceiling and snack bar area.
The Exterior.
It was a Brick building which was smaller than the old beautiful Brick Art Deco movie theater that was closed for a while and torn down. (Me think they could have taken the theater and expand the museum!) The bricks were Dark Red. Currently showing large windows and double door-like but it is large compared to the actual door you can see on the left side of the front of the museum. It does appear as a storefront type of museum.
The Stats:
Rink Size: N/A Floor: Likely Maple wood. Floor Layout: N/A
Building Size: N/A Built: N/A Demolished: N/A
Type of Building: Free Span Dark Red Brick Building.
Roof: Flat
Acres: N/A
Operated: N/A
Reason for Closure: N/A
Wanted: Information regarding which building was it? Why tear it down? Why rink closed? Dates of open and closed? Photos of the rink both inside and outside!
Sources: Lexington Clipper-Herald on museum, 100th Meridian Museum.
© 2019-2020 Copyrighted by Dead-Rinks. All Rights Reserved.
This rink used to be on 206 8th Street which sits next to the old torn down theater in the corner. It was a beautiful building but why tear this corner building down for? Terrible! You will see the photo above to compare with the new photo. I included the old theater because it is a dead theater as well so that was part of entertainment and qualifies to be here with Dead-Rinks.
It pale the size compared to the beautiful old theater that was torn down. It is in a one-story building where the museum now sits.
Although the museum still stands today, Hayloft Skate Center ran before the museum. They renovated the building in 1994 when the rink closed. The museum is called 100th Meridian and that is supposedly be in the center of the entire country. But roughly as the article says. So, that was pretty neat a roller rink was pretty much in center of the United States at one time! Skating was the center of our activities and life during 20th Century. The museum today is pretty much the center of our lives now because ever since 1990s, the Retro era has brought the history as a popular trend throughout 1990s and 2000s and maybe early 2010s.
The Interior.
N/A. Likely was a very small and narrow rink. Had a drop ceiling and snack bar area.
The Exterior.
It was a Brick building which was smaller than the old beautiful Brick Art Deco movie theater that was closed for a while and torn down. (Me think they could have taken the theater and expand the museum!) The bricks were Dark Red. Currently showing large windows and double door-like but it is large compared to the actual door you can see on the left side of the front of the museum. It does appear as a storefront type of museum.
The Stats:
Rink Size: N/A Floor: Likely Maple wood. Floor Layout: N/A
Building Size: N/A Built: N/A Demolished: N/A
Type of Building: Free Span Dark Red Brick Building.
Roof: Flat
Acres: N/A
Operated: N/A
Reason for Closure: N/A
Wanted: Information regarding which building was it? Why tear it down? Why rink closed? Dates of open and closed? Photos of the rink both inside and outside!
Sources: Lexington Clipper-Herald on museum, 100th Meridian Museum.
© 2019-2020 Copyrighted by Dead-Rinks. All Rights Reserved.