Monroe Bowl Roller Rink 4121 Monroeville Blvd., Monroeville, PA. The original logo. Source: Monroe Bowl website.
Monroe Bowl Roller Rink 4121 Monroeville Blvd., Monroeville, PA. The updated logo. Much cleaner, less clutter, and pops well. The circle represents bowling ball like they did with the original logo! Source: Monroe Bowl website.
Monroe Bowl Roller Rink 4121 Monroeville Blvd., Monroeville, PA. Roller rink logo. Source: Monroe Bowl website.
Monroeville Roller Rink 4121 Monroeville Blvd., Monroeville, PA. 1960s photograph of the property. Hard to see the building but you can see Putt Putt® miniature golf course with a lot of lights. It was very common design at any Putt Putt® miniature golf courses. Source: Monroe Bowl website.
Monroe Bowl Roller Rink 4121 Monroeville Blvd., Monroeville, PA. This was taken after Syms store went out of business at this location in 2007 before the entire company bankrupted and out of business in 2011. That tall structure behind is an apartment complex that you seen in every pictures of the building. Source: Monroe Bowl website.
Monroe Bowl Roller Rink 4121 Monroeville Blvd., Monroeville, PA. Roughly similar location of the photographer took in 1960s. Yes, you are seeing those tall apartments on the hill. The façade was the SYMS store that went out of business. Taken in 2012. Source: Monroe Bowl website.
Monroe Bowl Roller Rink 4121 Monroeville Blvd., Monroeville, PA. 2015 now as a surgical center. Source: Google.
Monroe Bowl Roller Rink 4121 Monroeville Blvd., Monroeville, PA. Taken in 1960s as Monroe Bowl showing AMF bowling lanes. Source: Monroe Bowl website.
Monroe Bowl Roller Rink 4121 Monroeville Blvd., Monroeville, PA. Roughly similar location of the photographer took in 1960s. Yes, you are seeing those tall apartments on the hill. The façade was the SYMS store that went out of business. Taken in 2012. Source: Monroe Bowl website.
Monroe Bowl Roller Rink 4121 Monroeville Blvd., Monroeville, PA. Teens enjoying billiards in this photo taken in 1960s or 1970s. I love the décor on the wall. Nice design. The ceiling quite clearly was designed for bowling but I believe they added this room by taking some lanes out. Source: Monroe Bowl website.
Monroe Bowl Roller Rink 4121 Monroeville Blvd., Monroeville, PA. Some fine keychains you could take one home at the time. Source: Monroe Bowl website.
Monroe Bowl Roller Rink 4121 Monroeville Blvd., Monroeville, PA. Coffee anyone? Coffee mugs with the name on it. It may have been served in the bowling place. Or you can buy some. I have tons of restaurant mugs I bought (and am trying to sell!). Source: Monroe Bowl website.
Monroe Bowl Roller Rink 4121 Monroeville Blvd., Monroeville, PA. Beer mugs. Appeared small for beer. Likely they are display mugs you bought at the pro-shop or gift shop there. Source: Monroe Bowl website.
Monroe Bowl Roller Rink 4121 Monroeville Blvd., Monroeville, PA. Advertisement for entire complex. Source: Monroe Bowl website.
Monroe Bowl Roller Rink 4121 Monroeville Blvd., Monroeville, PA. Newspaper ads in early 1960s. Source: Monroe Bowl website.
Monroe Bowl Roller Rink 4121 Monroeville Blvd., Monroeville, PA. A coupon for roller skating. Likely 1970s. Source: Monroe Bowl website.
Monroe Bowl Roller Rink 4121 Monroeville Blvd., Monroeville, PA. Jukebox style ad. This ad was repaired. Source: Monroe Bowl website. © Copyrighted Digitally Remastered by International Roller Skating Rinks History Foundation©, an International Commercial Archeology Preservation© Group. All Rights Reserved. (piece of advertisement was torn off and was painstakingly restored and adjustment).
Monroe Bowl Roller Rink 4121 Monroeville Blvd., Monroeville, PA. Oops! Someone used the clipart 1970s style using the Jukebox couple from the ad above this one and made this one leaving on part of the jukebox in this ad. Could have consult me and I would have fix it! Want me to make 40 years old ad repaired without the jukebox? Please reply! Source: Monroe Bowl website.
Monroe Bowl Roller Rink 4121 Monroeville Blvd., Monroeville, PA. Early 1960s ad. Source: Monroe Bowl website.
Monroe Bowl Roller Rink 4121 Monroeville Blvd., Monroeville, PA. A simple bowling pass. Source: Monroe Bowl website.
Monroe Bowl Roller Rink 4121 Monroeville Blvd., Monroeville, PA. A fire destroyed the bowling center on Easter Sunday night 1962. Amazing the Cinderblocks walls still standing! Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Tuesday, 16 April 1963.
Monroeville Roller Rink 4121 Monroeville Blvd., Monroeville, PA. Article lookalike but it is really an advertisement! They opened on Monday, 29 January 1962. Apparently maybe no media wanted to put the press release in so they paid for the ad. Source: Post Gazette - Thursday, 11 January 1962
Monroeville Roller Rink 4121 Monroeville Blvd., Monroeville, PA. Article lookalike but it is really an advertisement! They opened on Monday, 29 January 1962. Apparently maybe no media wanted to put the press release in so they paid for the ad. Source: The Pittsburgh Press - Monday, 29 January 1962 (opening day).
Monroe Bowl Roller Rink 4121 Monroeville Blvd., Monroeville, PA. Now, this part is an advertisement. It was part of the same page in the same newspaper as the "article" advertisement shown above this ad. They opened on Monday, 29 January 1962. Apparently maybe no media wanted to put the press release in so they paid for the ad. Source: The Pittsburgh Press - Monday, 29 January 1962 (opening day).
Monroe Bowl Roller Rink 4121 Monroeville Blvd., Monroeville, PA. Headline about the fire. The police found the fire first as an officer was cruising by. There was the rest of the article however, it was badly printed and only I cleaned up the headline. The rest of the article (with errors corrected)--
The Monroe Bowling Alley, a 40 - lane establishment on Northern Pike in Monroeville was destroyed by a fire early today. Monroeville police making a routine check of the Miracle Mile Shopping Center discovered flames shooting from the rear of the building located behind the [center]. Four fire companies battled the blaze. Police said it apparently broke out in the kitchen area of the alleys, which also housed a restaurant, cocktail lounge and banquet room. The roof of the two-year old building collapsed and only four walls remained standing as firemen poured water on the smoldering rubble. A spokesman for Forbes Development Corp. of Pittsburgh, which operated the establishment, said "we will not know how much the damage [amounted] to until we have completed a check on how much of the equipment still is [usable]. The building is insured."
Source: The Pittsburgh Press - Monday, 15 April 1963.
The Monroe Bowling Alley, a 40 - lane establishment on Northern Pike in Monroeville was destroyed by a fire early today. Monroeville police making a routine check of the Miracle Mile Shopping Center discovered flames shooting from the rear of the building located behind the [center]. Four fire companies battled the blaze. Police said it apparently broke out in the kitchen area of the alleys, which also housed a restaurant, cocktail lounge and banquet room. The roof of the two-year old building collapsed and only four walls remained standing as firemen poured water on the smoldering rubble. A spokesman for Forbes Development Corp. of Pittsburgh, which operated the establishment, said "we will not know how much the damage [amounted] to until we have completed a check on how much of the equipment still is [usable]. The building is insured."
Source: The Pittsburgh Press - Monday, 15 April 1963.
Monroe Bowl Roller Rink 4121 Monroeville Blvd., Monroeville, PA. Was that price for all three or just choose one? That was a good question for people back then. Source: The Pittsburgh Press - Thursday, 25, August 1963.
Monroe Bowl Roller Rink 4121 Monroeville Blvd., Monroeville, PA. Was that price for all three or just choose one? That was a good question for people back then. Source: The Pittsburgh Press - Thursday, 28 December 1961.
Monroeville Roller Rink 4121 Monroeville Blvd., Monroeville, PA. Was that price for all three or just choose one? That was a good question for people back then. Source: The Pittsburgh Press - Thursday, 16 February 1978.
Monroe Bowl Roller Rink 4121 Monroeville Blvd., Monroeville, PA. Was that price for all three or just choose one? That was a good question for people back then. Source: The Pittsburgh Press - Thursday, 26 July 1984.
Monroe Bowl Roller Rink 4121 Monroeville Blvd., Monroeville, PA. Was that price for all three or just choose one? That was a good question for people back then. Source: The Pittsburgh Press - Thursday, 11 October 1979.
Monroe Bowl Roller Rink 4121 Monroeville Blvd., Monroeville, PA. The end thanks to insurance company! Source: Monroe Bowl website.
Pool City and Monroe Bowl
4121 Monroeville Blvd., Monroeville, PA
Monroe Bowl Roller Rink
4121 Monroeville Blvd., Monroeville, PA
Putt Putt® 4121 Monroeville Blvd., Monroeville, PA
4121 Monroeville Blvd., Monroeville, PA
Monroe Bowl Roller Rink
4121 Monroeville Blvd., Monroeville, PA
Putt Putt® 4121 Monroeville Blvd., Monroeville, PA
Pool City and Monroeville Bowl was there as well as Monroeville Bowl Roller Rink 4121 Monroeville Boulevard., Monroeville, Pennsylvania.
I found a very useful information on the bowling and in matter of fact, their set up is quite similar to the IRSRHF. Interesting right?
Monroe Bowl first opened in August 1961. However, the center had a fire so they rebuilt the entertainment center and reopened on 01 September, 1963. Easter night Sunday, 14 April 1963, a fire broke out in the kitchen causing severe damage to the bowling center. New pinsetters were just purchased. The fire severely damaged the bowling center. The walls stood up well but the roof collapse and it was severely damaged inside. The owners were visiting her parents house on Easter and they were coming home and they saw that strange orange lit sky and they knew exactly where the bowling center was and they rushed over to see if they can do anything about it.
Good thing it was fully insured and (I am sure under warranty for the equipment from AMF) so that they got replacement however, they reduced from original 40 lanes to 34 so they could add the roller rink. So, this is when the rink began in September 1963. They rebuilt quickly in 5 months. Likely the insurance signed a check quickly and they they had construction workers fixed up in that short span of time.
They reopened as 34 lanes because they added the roller rink and miniature car racing, that is, Matchbox®/Hot Wheels car racing indoors and for the outdoors recreation was Putt Putt® miniature golf course. They also had a billiard hall (18 tables).
In 1986, the entertainment center was purchased by SYMS Corp., a New Jersey-based clothier.
The entire operations was owned and operated by Lee H. Horvitz along with his brothers. The brothers owned the parent company, Forbes Development Corp. of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Lee was live long bowler and had career around it. After he sold it, he bought, through a lease arrangement, the former Great Valley Lanes in North Versailles.
The managers throughout the years at the rink were -- Dick Culliani, Carl (?), Gerry Gable and Marlynn Marusko.
The main reason the entertainment center closed was because of the Great Insurance Killer of 1980s. The insurance the center paid annually was 4,000 USD a year but in 1986, it skyrocketed to 10,000 USD! Way too sky-high. I believe it has to do with the roller rink that contributed the rising cost. Most rinks closed in 1980s were due to the Great Insurance Killer of 1980s we all faced. Now it is the Great Health Insurance Killer of 2010s-2020s thanks to you know who!
The rebooted operation lasted from Sunday, 01 September 1963 to Monday, 30 June 1986. That was the last day of the entertainment business then it became a store then they went out fo business in 2007
The Interior.
PRE-FIRE:
Pool City: I do not know what it was like.
Monroe Bowl: It had AMF equipped 40 Lanes for bowling, had a restaurant, registration and shoe rental counter. Pro shop.
POST-FIRE:
Pool City: It had quite a very 1950s theme for 1963! They retained the classic look interior with 18 billiards and likely the entrance is separated from the bowling and roller rink. Well clean design with many narrow Diamonds of different colors. Since the photo is black and white, I do not know what colors were they. And they may have had updated sometimes after.
Monroe Bowl: Due to the fire, they reduced the lanes from 40 to 32 in the rebuilt and they added the roller rink in their expansion of the facility and added the mini-cars race. This sounded like Hot Wheels/Matchbox cars race track perhaps the size of a bedroom. Plenty of room to make track longer than what you bought for home use.
There was an indoor miniature golf course, an indoor golf driving range, and slot car racing tracks.
Monroe Bowl Roller Rink: There is only a couple of photographs but mostly focused on people. One is displayed above. The photo showed evidence of the floor to be Hardwood Maple, non-painted, and it was LOG CABIN layout. They had murals on the wall.
Putt Putt®: See exterior.
The Exterior.
PRE-FIRE:
Pool City: I do not know what it was like.
Monroe Bowl: I do not know what it was like.
POST-FIRE:
Pool City: It was very much of a Warehouse look building that had 2 level Flatted Roof, Free Span Steel Trusses. The colors are unknown.
Monroe Bowl: See Pool City.
Monroe Bowl Roller Rink: See Pool City.
Putt Putt®: Putting golf course layout very common with this brand, Putt Putt® that they had a lot of tube lights for evening Mini-golf course and they had orange wood studs shaped each course with Green Astro Turf Greens. From what I seen in the photo, it may appeared to be 56 hole mini-golf courses which is a set of 3 18-hole courses. That is very common with Putt Putt® Golf courses. This was up front by the road being in-between the road and the entertainment center.
In those pictures you can see clearly it was in a valley right by this multi-plex apartment buildings on the hill. More of a kitty corner of the property behind the former entertainment center.
The Stats:
Rink Size: N/A. Floor: Hardwood Maple, Non-Painted, possible Polyurethane Coated.
Floor Layout: LOG CABIN.
Building Size: N/A. Original Built: August 1961. Rebuilt: 31 August 1963 Renovations: N/A.
Original destroyed: Easter night, 14 April 1963, a fire broke out in the kitchen causing severe damage.
Rebuilt Demolished: Still Standing
Type of Building: Free-Span Steel Trusses Steel - Walled Warehouse - like Building.
Roof: Gabled.
Acres: N/A.
Organ: They had organ in early years but they switched to Disco then by 1980, played top 40s, etc.
Original 10 Pins Bowling Lanes: 40 Lanes (Destroyed by fire in April 1963.
Rebuilt 10 Pins Bowling Lanes: 34 Lanes (Rebuilt, decided to reduce to 34 due to addting the roller rink.
Duck Pins Bowling Lanes: None.
Candlestick Bowling Lanes: None.
Pocket Billiard Tables: 18 Tables.
Amusement Rides: None.
Driving Range Slots: Number unknown.
Miniature Golf Course: Indoors and Outdoors (Putt Putt® for outdoors) 54 Holes for exterior).
Arcade: Number unknown.
Skee-Ball: N/A.
Fascination: None.
Restaurant: Itzy's Terrance Restaurant. I think its Italian restaurant.
Cocktail lounge: Bar X Bar
Laser Tag: None.
Bounce Houses: None.
Bumper Cars: None.
Go-Kart: None.
Motel: None.
Swimming Pool: None.
Jungle Gym Playground: None.
Skate Park: None.
Model Car Race Track
Operated: (Overall)-- For roller skating rink only- Sunday, 01 September 1963 to Monday, 30 June 1986.
Pool City: Sunday, 01 September 1963 to Monday, 30 June 1986.
Original Monroe Bowl: Monday, 29 January 1962 to Easter Sunday Night, 14 April 1963
Rebooted Monroe Bowl: Sunday, 01 September 1963 to Monday, 30 June 1986.
Monroe Bowl Roller Rink: Sunday, 01 September 1963 to Monday, 30 June 1986.
Putt Putt®: Sunday, 01 September 1963 to Monday, 30 June 1986.
SYMS Corp: Tuesday 01 July 1986 to 2007.
Allegheny Health Network Surgery Center: c. 2015 to Present.
Reason for Closure: See Note.
Pool City: Insurance too expensive!
Original Monroe Bowl: Due to a fire caused in kitchen on Easter Sunday Night, 14 April 1963.
Rebooted Monroe Bowl: Insurance too expensive!
Monroe Bowl Roller Rink: Insurance too expensive!
Putt Putt®: Insurance too expensive!
SYMS Corp: Great Recession likely cause for its closure. No given reason.
Allegheny Health Network Surgery Center: Still operational.
Note: Because of the roller rink was there, the insurance company increased more than two times the cost of Insurance for the entire entertainment complex.
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 International Roller Skating Rinks History Foundation©. Before you email, please state this rink name AND THE CITY AND STATE (or COUNTRY) so I can know where or what rink you are talking about. Thank you. We welcome both active and defunct rinks.
Sources:
Monroe Bowl - Excellent website focus on this awesome entertainment center. Worth to read and view more information than I am providing here. Many pages! Please do go to this link!
Date of issue: 22 September 2022.
For office use only: 33.
Worth to visit:
None. Total renovated, It is now a medical surgical center. Nothing to see now. Since it is a medical center, DO NOT ENTER. It is an outpatient surgical operating rooms.
DISCLAIMER:
International Roller Skating Rinks History Foundation© (formerly known as 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.
Dead Rinks is now International Roller Skating Rinks History Foundation© because many former names have become new names at the same rinks that are still active and due to much confusion, We have decided that International Roller Skating Rinks History Foundation© fits better for all rinks including defunct, closed, inactive, rebooted, and rinks that are still active today. For short on this site, it is International Roller Skating Rinks History© Bear with us as we change the entire site page by page each day. 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. Since we allowed rebooted alive rinks, active rinks, we welcome those active rinks as well. It will be described.
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 International Roller Skating Rinks History Foundation© are not the property of International Commercial Archeology Preservation© Group and/or International Roller Skating Rinks History Foundation© therefore we do not own the rights to the music.
All photos you submitted or we retrieved become property of International Roller Skating Rinks History Foundation© 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: Disclaimer.
© Copyrighted by International Roller Skating Rinks History Foundation©, an International Commercial Archeology Preservation© Group. All Rights Reserved. Jn 3:3 to 16. Deut. 32:7.
I found a very useful information on the bowling and in matter of fact, their set up is quite similar to the IRSRHF. Interesting right?
Monroe Bowl first opened in August 1961. However, the center had a fire so they rebuilt the entertainment center and reopened on 01 September, 1963. Easter night Sunday, 14 April 1963, a fire broke out in the kitchen causing severe damage to the bowling center. New pinsetters were just purchased. The fire severely damaged the bowling center. The walls stood up well but the roof collapse and it was severely damaged inside. The owners were visiting her parents house on Easter and they were coming home and they saw that strange orange lit sky and they knew exactly where the bowling center was and they rushed over to see if they can do anything about it.
Good thing it was fully insured and (I am sure under warranty for the equipment from AMF) so that they got replacement however, they reduced from original 40 lanes to 34 so they could add the roller rink. So, this is when the rink began in September 1963. They rebuilt quickly in 5 months. Likely the insurance signed a check quickly and they they had construction workers fixed up in that short span of time.
They reopened as 34 lanes because they added the roller rink and miniature car racing, that is, Matchbox®/Hot Wheels car racing indoors and for the outdoors recreation was Putt Putt® miniature golf course. They also had a billiard hall (18 tables).
In 1986, the entertainment center was purchased by SYMS Corp., a New Jersey-based clothier.
The entire operations was owned and operated by Lee H. Horvitz along with his brothers. The brothers owned the parent company, Forbes Development Corp. of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Lee was live long bowler and had career around it. After he sold it, he bought, through a lease arrangement, the former Great Valley Lanes in North Versailles.
The managers throughout the years at the rink were -- Dick Culliani, Carl (?), Gerry Gable and Marlynn Marusko.
The main reason the entertainment center closed was because of the Great Insurance Killer of 1980s. The insurance the center paid annually was 4,000 USD a year but in 1986, it skyrocketed to 10,000 USD! Way too sky-high. I believe it has to do with the roller rink that contributed the rising cost. Most rinks closed in 1980s were due to the Great Insurance Killer of 1980s we all faced. Now it is the Great Health Insurance Killer of 2010s-2020s thanks to you know who!
The rebooted operation lasted from Sunday, 01 September 1963 to Monday, 30 June 1986. That was the last day of the entertainment business then it became a store then they went out fo business in 2007
The Interior.
PRE-FIRE:
Pool City: I do not know what it was like.
Monroe Bowl: It had AMF equipped 40 Lanes for bowling, had a restaurant, registration and shoe rental counter. Pro shop.
POST-FIRE:
Pool City: It had quite a very 1950s theme for 1963! They retained the classic look interior with 18 billiards and likely the entrance is separated from the bowling and roller rink. Well clean design with many narrow Diamonds of different colors. Since the photo is black and white, I do not know what colors were they. And they may have had updated sometimes after.
Monroe Bowl: Due to the fire, they reduced the lanes from 40 to 32 in the rebuilt and they added the roller rink in their expansion of the facility and added the mini-cars race. This sounded like Hot Wheels/Matchbox cars race track perhaps the size of a bedroom. Plenty of room to make track longer than what you bought for home use.
There was an indoor miniature golf course, an indoor golf driving range, and slot car racing tracks.
Monroe Bowl Roller Rink: There is only a couple of photographs but mostly focused on people. One is displayed above. The photo showed evidence of the floor to be Hardwood Maple, non-painted, and it was LOG CABIN layout. They had murals on the wall.
Putt Putt®: See exterior.
The Exterior.
PRE-FIRE:
Pool City: I do not know what it was like.
Monroe Bowl: I do not know what it was like.
POST-FIRE:
Pool City: It was very much of a Warehouse look building that had 2 level Flatted Roof, Free Span Steel Trusses. The colors are unknown.
Monroe Bowl: See Pool City.
Monroe Bowl Roller Rink: See Pool City.
Putt Putt®: Putting golf course layout very common with this brand, Putt Putt® that they had a lot of tube lights for evening Mini-golf course and they had orange wood studs shaped each course with Green Astro Turf Greens. From what I seen in the photo, it may appeared to be 56 hole mini-golf courses which is a set of 3 18-hole courses. That is very common with Putt Putt® Golf courses. This was up front by the road being in-between the road and the entertainment center.
In those pictures you can see clearly it was in a valley right by this multi-plex apartment buildings on the hill. More of a kitty corner of the property behind the former entertainment center.
The Stats:
Rink Size: N/A. Floor: Hardwood Maple, Non-Painted, possible Polyurethane Coated.
Floor Layout: LOG CABIN.
Building Size: N/A. Original Built: August 1961. Rebuilt: 31 August 1963 Renovations: N/A.
Original destroyed: Easter night, 14 April 1963, a fire broke out in the kitchen causing severe damage.
Rebuilt Demolished: Still Standing
Type of Building: Free-Span Steel Trusses Steel - Walled Warehouse - like Building.
Roof: Gabled.
Acres: N/A.
Organ: They had organ in early years but they switched to Disco then by 1980, played top 40s, etc.
Original 10 Pins Bowling Lanes: 40 Lanes (Destroyed by fire in April 1963.
Rebuilt 10 Pins Bowling Lanes: 34 Lanes (Rebuilt, decided to reduce to 34 due to addting the roller rink.
Duck Pins Bowling Lanes: None.
Candlestick Bowling Lanes: None.
Pocket Billiard Tables: 18 Tables.
Amusement Rides: None.
Driving Range Slots: Number unknown.
Miniature Golf Course: Indoors and Outdoors (Putt Putt® for outdoors) 54 Holes for exterior).
Arcade: Number unknown.
Skee-Ball: N/A.
Fascination: None.
Restaurant: Itzy's Terrance Restaurant. I think its Italian restaurant.
Cocktail lounge: Bar X Bar
Laser Tag: None.
Bounce Houses: None.
Bumper Cars: None.
Go-Kart: None.
Motel: None.
Swimming Pool: None.
Jungle Gym Playground: None.
Skate Park: None.
Model Car Race Track
Operated: (Overall)-- For roller skating rink only- Sunday, 01 September 1963 to Monday, 30 June 1986.
Pool City: Sunday, 01 September 1963 to Monday, 30 June 1986.
Original Monroe Bowl: Monday, 29 January 1962 to Easter Sunday Night, 14 April 1963
Rebooted Monroe Bowl: Sunday, 01 September 1963 to Monday, 30 June 1986.
Monroe Bowl Roller Rink: Sunday, 01 September 1963 to Monday, 30 June 1986.
Putt Putt®: Sunday, 01 September 1963 to Monday, 30 June 1986.
SYMS Corp: Tuesday 01 July 1986 to 2007.
Allegheny Health Network Surgery Center: c. 2015 to Present.
Reason for Closure: See Note.
Pool City: Insurance too expensive!
Original Monroe Bowl: Due to a fire caused in kitchen on Easter Sunday Night, 14 April 1963.
Rebooted Monroe Bowl: Insurance too expensive!
Monroe Bowl Roller Rink: Insurance too expensive!
Putt Putt®: Insurance too expensive!
SYMS Corp: Great Recession likely cause for its closure. No given reason.
Allegheny Health Network Surgery Center: Still operational.
Note: Because of the roller rink was there, the insurance company increased more than two times the cost of Insurance for the entire entertainment complex.
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 International Roller Skating Rinks History Foundation©. Before you email, please state this rink name AND THE CITY AND STATE (or COUNTRY) so I can know where or what rink you are talking about. Thank you. We welcome both active and defunct rinks.
Sources:
Monroe Bowl - Excellent website focus on this awesome entertainment center. Worth to read and view more information than I am providing here. Many pages! Please do go to this link!
Date of issue: 22 September 2022.
For office use only: 33.
Worth to visit:
None. Total renovated, It is now a medical surgical center. Nothing to see now. Since it is a medical center, DO NOT ENTER. It is an outpatient surgical operating rooms.
DISCLAIMER:
International Roller Skating Rinks History Foundation© (formerly known as 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.
Dead Rinks is now International Roller Skating Rinks History Foundation© because many former names have become new names at the same rinks that are still active and due to much confusion, We have decided that International Roller Skating Rinks History Foundation© fits better for all rinks including defunct, closed, inactive, rebooted, and rinks that are still active today. For short on this site, it is International Roller Skating Rinks History© Bear with us as we change the entire site page by page each day. 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. Since we allowed rebooted alive rinks, active rinks, we welcome those active rinks as well. It will be described.
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 International Roller Skating Rinks History Foundation© are not the property of International Commercial Archeology Preservation© Group and/or International Roller Skating Rinks History Foundation© therefore we do not own the rights to the music.
All photos you submitted or we retrieved become property of International Roller Skating Rinks History Foundation© 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: Disclaimer.
© Copyrighted by International Roller Skating Rinks History Foundation©, an International Commercial Archeology Preservation© Group. All Rights Reserved. Jn 3:3 to 16. Deut. 32:7.