Kimberton Rollerama 751 Pike Springs Road, Phoenixville, Pennsylvania. This photo was taken from a postcard that was set with 2 other photos. 3 photo collage. This was what the rink was like in 1970s. Rarely postcards in the 70s for commercial such as a rink that postcards were declining. Was popular in 1930s to 1960s. The location is actually cross the street from Kimberton Fairgrounds. Courtesy Kimberton Rollerama Facebook group.
Kimberton Rollerama 751 Pike Springs Road, Phoenixville, Pennsylvania. Those two photos above were part of that postcard. Left was the sign and right was where the eating area. I believe those seats turns for skaters to sit in or get up. I like that. Sporting popular color of its day- Orange with Yellow. Photographs were taken back then and the hue is bit off though. Courtesy Kimberton Rollerama Facebook group.
Kimberton Rollerama 751 Pike Springs Road, Phoenixville, Pennsylvania. My what a crowd in late 70s or early 1980s. Thanks to the fashion statements teenagers wore and the fad of its time. I apologize I had to blur out this skater real close to the photographer. Blurred out for his safety. Courtesy Kimberton Rollerama Facebook group.
Kimberton Rollerama 751 Pike Springs Road, Phoenixville, Pennsylvania. Taken on a day when there was no session. Hard to see but it is Hardwood Maple floor. I believe that little dark area has to be where the organ/DJ was. Courtesy Kimberton Rollerama Facebook group.
Kimberton Rollerama 751 Pike Springs Road, Phoenixville, Pennsylvania. This appears to be a business card. A lot of information on this. Might be a business card for Marty Dumic. Courtesy Kimberton Rollerama Facebook group.
Kimberton Rollerama 751 Pike Springs Road, Phoenixville, Pennsylvania. A couple of cool buttons. Did you get your buttons skaters? Courtesy Kimberton Rollerama Facebook group.
Kimberton Rollerama 751 Pike Springs Road, Phoenixville, Pennsylvania. Of course, the jacket. Maybe skate team wore this. Nice jacket! Courtesy Kimberton Rollerama Facebook group.
Kimberton Rollerama 751 Pike Springs Road, Phoenixville, Pennsylvania A couple of patches. The worn out patch had seen its better days. It could have been stitched on and was removed and sold in a thrift store in Texas, hundreds of miles away. Must be a skater moved to Texas. Courtesy Kimberton Rollerama Facebook group.
Kimberton Rollerama 751 Pike Springs Road, Phoenixville, Pennsylvania Another thrift store find. A lot of articles shown here were thrift store finds for this rink more than I saw in rinks merchandise ended up on in thrift stores. Skaters, please check thrift stores! You never know! If you find anything, please let me know so I can collect them or for research information. Courtesy Kimberton Rollerama Facebook group.
Kimberton Rollerama 751 Pike Springs Road, Phoenixville, Pennsylvania Another thrift store find! Wow, I wish I found them. Someone is blessed to have that. I believe a skater made this in memory of the rink but somehow it ended up given to the thrift store and sold to a skater who went the very same rink. Interesting! Courtesy Kimberton Rollerama Facebook group.
Kimberton Rollerama 751 Pike Springs Road, Phoenixville, Pennsylvania. It is about the same spot where the postcard picture of the rink at the time. Now all trees are grown big! Those are 50 years old trees now! Fast! Ha. Courtesy of Google Maps.
Kimberton Rollerama 751 Pike Springs Road, Phoenixville, Pennsylvania. A better view now that the trees have grown. But this is the very same rink used to be there. Taken in 2021. Courtesy of Google Maps.
Kimberton Rollerama 751 Pike Springs Road, Phoenixville, PA
Kimberton Rollerama 751 Pike Springs Road, Phoenixville, Pennsylvania was once a beloved rink where they had organ music playing right up to closure in recent times. The owners were Gene and Marie Mitchell who opened the rink on 1 December 1972 during the 1970s craze of roller skating and roller disco as well. However, this rink stayed with the classic. Organ and DJ music.
This rink had a lot of good memories according to skaters who skated at this rink as seen on their Facebook group.
The Google Map was a bit hard to find but I found it. I had to study the landscape and the building in the postcard photograph. Back then people hardly used building or house number. They go by miles. Today we say minutes. The building and the way the parking lot and the landscape on the left lower side of the postcard picture of the building I matched to 741 PA-113, Phoneixville, PA. You can see it is all grown with trees and scrubs and all. Really difficult to see.
If you move up, you will see it more clearly at 751 Pike Springs Road, PA-113, Phoenixville, PA 19460 This is Home Furnishing Market at that present address. It was total renovated to show very early 2000s look. Truly hide the former rink building and a faux roof. It is still Gabled roof. The furniture store website said they were at that location for 15 years. So, it would mean the rink closed roughly in 2008 or before that.
The Interior.
The rink floor was clearly Hardwood Maple in Log Cabin format layout. What was interesting for this 1970s rink that was opened featured rails that were common in pre-1970s. More like pre 1960. Steel pipe rails. Safety for that was not the same.
Anyway, the colors common in that rink were 1970s Sunburst Yellow and Orange, not quite Harvest Orange though. Ha. No Avocado Green too. Those three colors were popular in 1960s and early 1970s for kitchen and bath design with those colors. Even other rooms. Makes sense.
They had eating area behind the plexiglass as I can see in one of the photo. That is interesting to have it walled and the rink did not have a half walled concrete blocks. Go figure.
The Exterior.
The building itself was standard Gabled Warehouse-like with Steel walls around. Very modern for its time. It had maybe Tan or Sand color Cinderblocks for half wall around exterior with exposed Steel posts with Trusses that were exposed interior. The design on outside was very clean look.
The Stats:
Rink Size: N/A. Floor: Hardwood Polyurethane Coated Maple Floor Layout: Straight Log Cabin.
Building Size: N/A. Built: 1972. Renovations: N/A. Demolished: Still standing.
Type of Building: Free-Span Steel Trusses Steel - Walled Warehouse - like Building.
Roof: Gabled.
Acres: N/A.
Organ: They had an organ but type is unknown.
10 Pins Bowling Lanes: N/A.
Duck Pins Bowling Lanes: N/A.
Candlestick Bowling Lanes: N/A.
Pocket Billiard Tables: N/A.
Amusement Rides: N/A.
Driving Range Slots: N/A.
Miniature Golf Course: N/A.
Arcade: (Number unknown)
Skee-Ball: N/A.
Fascination: N/A.
Restaurant: N/A.
Cocktail lounge: N/A.
Laser Tag: N/A.
Bounce Houses: N/A.
Bumper Cars: N/A.
Go-Kart: N/A.
Operated: (Overall)-- 1 December 1972 to c. 2008.
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 Rink-History. Thank you. You can also use this form.
Sources:
Google Map
Kimberton Rollerama Facebook group
Date of issue:
27 May 2023.
For office use only: 12
Worth to visit:
None. Only exterior. Maybe the wooden floor is still there according to the photo from that furniture store that is housed at the former rink.
DISCLAIMER:
Rink-History 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 Rink-History 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: Rink-History List.
© Copyrighted by Rink-History, an International Commercial Archeology Preservation© Group. All Rights Reserved. Jn 3:3 to 16. Deut. 32:7.
This rink had a lot of good memories according to skaters who skated at this rink as seen on their Facebook group.
The Google Map was a bit hard to find but I found it. I had to study the landscape and the building in the postcard photograph. Back then people hardly used building or house number. They go by miles. Today we say minutes. The building and the way the parking lot and the landscape on the left lower side of the postcard picture of the building I matched to 741 PA-113, Phoneixville, PA. You can see it is all grown with trees and scrubs and all. Really difficult to see.
If you move up, you will see it more clearly at 751 Pike Springs Road, PA-113, Phoenixville, PA 19460 This is Home Furnishing Market at that present address. It was total renovated to show very early 2000s look. Truly hide the former rink building and a faux roof. It is still Gabled roof. The furniture store website said they were at that location for 15 years. So, it would mean the rink closed roughly in 2008 or before that.
The Interior.
The rink floor was clearly Hardwood Maple in Log Cabin format layout. What was interesting for this 1970s rink that was opened featured rails that were common in pre-1970s. More like pre 1960. Steel pipe rails. Safety for that was not the same.
Anyway, the colors common in that rink were 1970s Sunburst Yellow and Orange, not quite Harvest Orange though. Ha. No Avocado Green too. Those three colors were popular in 1960s and early 1970s for kitchen and bath design with those colors. Even other rooms. Makes sense.
They had eating area behind the plexiglass as I can see in one of the photo. That is interesting to have it walled and the rink did not have a half walled concrete blocks. Go figure.
The Exterior.
The building itself was standard Gabled Warehouse-like with Steel walls around. Very modern for its time. It had maybe Tan or Sand color Cinderblocks for half wall around exterior with exposed Steel posts with Trusses that were exposed interior. The design on outside was very clean look.
The Stats:
Rink Size: N/A. Floor: Hardwood Polyurethane Coated Maple Floor Layout: Straight Log Cabin.
Building Size: N/A. Built: 1972. Renovations: N/A. Demolished: Still standing.
Type of Building: Free-Span Steel Trusses Steel - Walled Warehouse - like Building.
Roof: Gabled.
Acres: N/A.
Organ: They had an organ but type is unknown.
10 Pins Bowling Lanes: N/A.
Duck Pins Bowling Lanes: N/A.
Candlestick Bowling Lanes: N/A.
Pocket Billiard Tables: N/A.
Amusement Rides: N/A.
Driving Range Slots: N/A.
Miniature Golf Course: N/A.
Arcade: (Number unknown)
Skee-Ball: N/A.
Fascination: N/A.
Restaurant: N/A.
Cocktail lounge: N/A.
Laser Tag: N/A.
Bounce Houses: N/A.
Bumper Cars: N/A.
Go-Kart: N/A.
Operated: (Overall)-- 1 December 1972 to c. 2008.
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 Rink-History. Thank you. You can also use this form.
Sources:
Google Map
Kimberton Rollerama Facebook group
Date of issue:
27 May 2023.
For office use only: 12
Worth to visit:
None. Only exterior. Maybe the wooden floor is still there according to the photo from that furniture store that is housed at the former rink.
DISCLAIMER:
Rink-History 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 Rink-History 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: Rink-History List.
© Copyrighted by Rink-History, an International Commercial Archeology Preservation© Group. All Rights Reserved. Jn 3:3 to 16. Deut. 32:7.