Lebanon Skate Center 1355 South Main St Lebanon, OR of Lebanon-Express. Notice how close the road is to the front door in the corner? Yes. Even on the side road it is merely 3 feet! It is bad. Source: Lebanon-Express - 05 March 2008.
Lebanon Skate Center 1355 South Main St Lebanon, OR. Taken in 2013. You can literally touch the wall as you drive by on the right side in the photo. Source: Google.
Lebanon Skate Center 1355 South Main St Lebanon, OR. Taken in 2012. Source: Google.
Lebanon Skate Center 1355 South Main St Lebanon, OR of Google. Noticed how close to the road especially the photograph I have up there real close to the mapper's vehicle? That is how close it was and the side of the building, was like 3 feet from the wall to the street marker! Taken in 2019. Source: Google.
Lebanon Skate Center 1355 South Main St Lebanon, OR
Lebanon Skate Center was located on 1355 South Main St Lebanon, OR. This rink closed on March 15, 2008 according to Lebanon-Express newspaper online.
"Pop" Holbrook built the skating rink in the 1940s and operated it till 1974 when Bill's father, Fred, bought the building from "Pop" Holbrook. In July 1979 Bill bought the rink from his father. He knew he would spend most of his life at the rink from the day he took over. While moving materials into the skating rink the wheel of the trailer he was using fell off. "We said, oh, well I guess we're stuck here!" he joked. (experts from Lebanon-Express).
Bill and Julie Flesher owned the rink for 30 years till its closure. Because of the safety of children, traffic congestion, and the age of the building were the factors that the Flesher had to sell. They wanted to list it for only six weeks. When they did that, they prayed and prayed hard and it was sold in FOUR days. This was during the Great Recession, mind you.
Innovative Investments International, based in Corvallis, purchased the property but not as a roller rink.
The danger and the safety they had concern was the building was merely 10 feet from the highway 20, a three lane highway. Their highways in Tennessee are different meaning than a typical old back road highways (like Route 20 from Boston to Portland Oregon, or Route 11 from Border of US-Canada and somewhere down southern US. Or like Route 66 Mother Road. Things like that. Not to be confused we call modern day highways such as NYS Thruway, Turnpike, Toll road, Interstate - 81, 90, 80, 95, 10, etc. They are called Superhighways.
Now you get the point about back road highways. This was a backroad route as "highways". Now having said, I understand the Fleshers' point of view. Not a good spot for a rink considering 10 feet.
Two turning lanes are for cars heading out of the plaza with one turn lane for cars coming in. Traffic is already booming in the plaza with Dutch Bros, and they expect it will get busier when the plaza opens. It was already increasing even before plaza was opened. I read years ago they say traffic increase 10 percent every ten years. That is 1 percent per year. Image a road they measured how much traffic.. say 10,000 cars a day, next year, it will be 10,100 cars a day, in 2 years, 10,200 plus, etc., etc. It would decrease when prices of fuel increases about 50 cents a gallon of gas, 10 percent of cars will not be driven. That was the old days in 20th Century I read about at the time. Now, no, Increasing traffic, prices go up.
The other thing they had to close was the age of the roof and building. Having such an arch (of any kind) are quite expensive to repair. Flat and Gable roofs are common and already expensive. Worse for arches. They had roof leaks. Also because of the age of building, consider cracks in the walls, paints pealing, broken bathrooms, etc. Those are common in old buildings. They feared of having to invest quite a bit of money to repair. The way it sounded they wanted to but not sure if anyone would come and would have money invested well as a recovered income from investment.
Also the owners became brokers for a well established real estate company and they stopped being involved with the rink 100 percent. They left all the tasks with the managers who worked there. Just the business support needed.
Citing that they used to have every single school in the county used to skate there annually. Now a limited number of schools were going to skate there.
On Google Map, it showed the building still having the name on it and for sale as of 2016 and 2019. Apparently the owner of the building did not get approval for renovations into another business or the original sale in 2008 did not finalize so it must have fell through. Its possible you can buy it now and fix it up and make it come back as a rink!
The Interior.
They had an old fashioned sign that was on the wall that display what kind of skating such as all skates, couple only, triples, etc.
The Exterior.
It had segmental Arch with Hip style on each ends. This rink was a Free-Span Steel Truss Cinderblocks-Walled Warehouse - like Building.
The Stats:
Rink Size: N/A. Floor: Maple. Floor Layout: N/A.
Building Size: N/A. Built: 1940s. Demolished: N/A.
Type of Building: Free-Span Steel Truss Cinderblocks-Walled Warehouse - like Building.
Roof: Segmental Arch Hip.
Acres: N/A.
Organ: N/A.
10 Pins Bowling Lanes: None.
Duck Pins Bowling Lanes: None.
Candlestick Bowling Lanes: None.
Pocket Billiard Tables: N/A.
Amusement Rides: None.
Driving Range Slots: None.
Miniature Golf Course: None.
Arcade: (Number unknown)
Skee-Ball: N/A.
Fascination: None.
Restaurant: None.
Cocktail lounge: None.
Laser Tag: None.
Bounce Houses: None.
Bumper Cars: None.
Go-Kart: None.
Motel: None.
Swimming Pool: None.
Jungle Gym Playground: None.
Skate Park: None.
Operated: (Overall)-- N/A to Saturday, March 15, 2008 at 10 PM.
Reason for Closure: Citing the safety of children, traffic congestion, and the age of the building,
Wanted: Information regarding exact dates of open/closed, why closed, size of rink, rink materials. Also, photos/articles. Also send me any updates such as reopening, sold, name changes, or whatsoever occurred with this rink or any rinks. Anyone knows or have photos, please let me know by emailing at Dead-Rinks. Thank you. You can also use this form.
Sources:
Lebanon-Express - 05 March 2008.
Date of issue: 03 April 2021. Replaces original post with many errors and lack of information.
Updated: 31 August 2022.
For office use only:
Worth to visit:
None.
DISCLAIMER:
Dead-Rinks 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.
Any music associated with any YouTube or any other videos provided on Dead-Rinks are not the property of Dead-Rinks therefore we do not own the rights to the music.
All photos you submitted or we retrieved become 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, an International Commercial Archeology Preservation© Group. All Rights Reserved. Jn 3:3 to 16. Deut. 32:7.
"Pop" Holbrook built the skating rink in the 1940s and operated it till 1974 when Bill's father, Fred, bought the building from "Pop" Holbrook. In July 1979 Bill bought the rink from his father. He knew he would spend most of his life at the rink from the day he took over. While moving materials into the skating rink the wheel of the trailer he was using fell off. "We said, oh, well I guess we're stuck here!" he joked. (experts from Lebanon-Express).
Bill and Julie Flesher owned the rink for 30 years till its closure. Because of the safety of children, traffic congestion, and the age of the building were the factors that the Flesher had to sell. They wanted to list it for only six weeks. When they did that, they prayed and prayed hard and it was sold in FOUR days. This was during the Great Recession, mind you.
Innovative Investments International, based in Corvallis, purchased the property but not as a roller rink.
The danger and the safety they had concern was the building was merely 10 feet from the highway 20, a three lane highway. Their highways in Tennessee are different meaning than a typical old back road highways (like Route 20 from Boston to Portland Oregon, or Route 11 from Border of US-Canada and somewhere down southern US. Or like Route 66 Mother Road. Things like that. Not to be confused we call modern day highways such as NYS Thruway, Turnpike, Toll road, Interstate - 81, 90, 80, 95, 10, etc. They are called Superhighways.
Now you get the point about back road highways. This was a backroad route as "highways". Now having said, I understand the Fleshers' point of view. Not a good spot for a rink considering 10 feet.
Two turning lanes are for cars heading out of the plaza with one turn lane for cars coming in. Traffic is already booming in the plaza with Dutch Bros, and they expect it will get busier when the plaza opens. It was already increasing even before plaza was opened. I read years ago they say traffic increase 10 percent every ten years. That is 1 percent per year. Image a road they measured how much traffic.. say 10,000 cars a day, next year, it will be 10,100 cars a day, in 2 years, 10,200 plus, etc., etc. It would decrease when prices of fuel increases about 50 cents a gallon of gas, 10 percent of cars will not be driven. That was the old days in 20th Century I read about at the time. Now, no, Increasing traffic, prices go up.
The other thing they had to close was the age of the roof and building. Having such an arch (of any kind) are quite expensive to repair. Flat and Gable roofs are common and already expensive. Worse for arches. They had roof leaks. Also because of the age of building, consider cracks in the walls, paints pealing, broken bathrooms, etc. Those are common in old buildings. They feared of having to invest quite a bit of money to repair. The way it sounded they wanted to but not sure if anyone would come and would have money invested well as a recovered income from investment.
Also the owners became brokers for a well established real estate company and they stopped being involved with the rink 100 percent. They left all the tasks with the managers who worked there. Just the business support needed.
Citing that they used to have every single school in the county used to skate there annually. Now a limited number of schools were going to skate there.
On Google Map, it showed the building still having the name on it and for sale as of 2016 and 2019. Apparently the owner of the building did not get approval for renovations into another business or the original sale in 2008 did not finalize so it must have fell through. Its possible you can buy it now and fix it up and make it come back as a rink!
The Interior.
They had an old fashioned sign that was on the wall that display what kind of skating such as all skates, couple only, triples, etc.
The Exterior.
It had segmental Arch with Hip style on each ends. This rink was a Free-Span Steel Truss Cinderblocks-Walled Warehouse - like Building.
The Stats:
Rink Size: N/A. Floor: Maple. Floor Layout: N/A.
Building Size: N/A. Built: 1940s. Demolished: N/A.
Type of Building: Free-Span Steel Truss Cinderblocks-Walled Warehouse - like Building.
Roof: Segmental Arch Hip.
Acres: N/A.
Organ: N/A.
10 Pins Bowling Lanes: None.
Duck Pins Bowling Lanes: None.
Candlestick Bowling Lanes: None.
Pocket Billiard Tables: N/A.
Amusement Rides: None.
Driving Range Slots: None.
Miniature Golf Course: None.
Arcade: (Number unknown)
Skee-Ball: N/A.
Fascination: None.
Restaurant: None.
Cocktail lounge: None.
Laser Tag: None.
Bounce Houses: None.
Bumper Cars: None.
Go-Kart: None.
Motel: None.
Swimming Pool: None.
Jungle Gym Playground: None.
Skate Park: None.
Operated: (Overall)-- N/A to Saturday, March 15, 2008 at 10 PM.
Reason for Closure: Citing the safety of children, traffic congestion, and the age of the building,
Wanted: Information regarding exact dates of open/closed, why closed, size of rink, rink materials. Also, photos/articles. Also send me any updates such as reopening, sold, name changes, or whatsoever occurred with this rink or any rinks. Anyone knows or have photos, please let me know by emailing at Dead-Rinks. Thank you. You can also use this form.
Sources:
Lebanon-Express - 05 March 2008.
Date of issue: 03 April 2021. Replaces original post with many errors and lack of information.
Updated: 31 August 2022.
For office use only:
Worth to visit:
None.
DISCLAIMER:
Dead-Rinks 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.
Any music associated with any YouTube or any other videos provided on Dead-Rinks are not the property of Dead-Rinks therefore we do not own the rights to the music.
All photos you submitted or we retrieved become 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, an International Commercial Archeology Preservation© Group. All Rights Reserved. Jn 3:3 to 16. Deut. 32:7.