Moon-Glo Roller Rink 1754 Hwy. 59, Kent, OH. Those USGS maps showed what the rink was in 1952 and 1990. It was on where the gas pumps are today. Source: USGS.
Moon-Glo Roller Rink 1754 Hwy. 59, Kent, OH. This was in year 2000. Rink gone. Source: USGS.
Moon-Glo Roller Rink 1754 Hwy. 59, Kent, OH. This was in year 2000. Rink gone. Source:
Moon-Glo Roller Rink 1754 Hwy. 59, Kent, OH. Moon-Glo RR was in the newspaper ads during 1968. Read it carefully and you will see the difference. Source: Daily Kent Stater. Friday 11 October 1968 (both ads).
Moon-Glo Roller Rink 1754 Hwy. 59, Kent, OH. Moon-Glo RR was in the newspaper. A student paper called Daily Kent Stater. This was 11 September 1991. Exactly 10 years before the horrible day happened. Source: Daily Kent Stater., 11 September 1991.
Moon-Glo Roller Rink 1754 Hwy. 59, Kent, OH. Moon-Glo RR was in the newspaper. A student paper called Daily Kent Stater. This was 11 September 1991. Exactly 10 years before the horrible day happened. Source: Daily Kent Stater., Wednesday 21 September 1994.
Moon-Glo Roller Rink 1754 East Main Street, Kent, OH. Moon-Glo RR owned this city bus! Not a school bus, CITY bus to transport children in style. Nice! This is the very bus that got Paul Karl Klatka killed when he was fixing it and it fell on him. Taken in 1970, a year after Paul's death on 06 October 1969. Source: Flickr.
Moon-Glo Roller Rink 1754 East Main Street, Kent, OH. This photo was taken in 2018. The roller rink was where the gas pumps are. Straight from the camera in this photo. The C-store on the left was where all empty grassland was. And the house behind the gas station still stands. Source: Google.
Moon-Glo Roller Rink 1754 East Main Street, Kent, OH. This photo was taken before it was demolished for the gas station. I love the colors! And graphic on the building. Blue, Sky Blue, Red, and White. This has to be taken in 1990s. What you think? Source: Remembering Ohio Roller Skating Rinks of the Past and Present.
Moon-Glo Roller Rink 1754 East Main Street, Kent, OH
Moon-Glo Roller Rink 1754 East Main Street, Kent, Ohio. It was operational while the days of the Hippies and anti-war protests happened at Kent State. Besides the saddest and shock moment of the Hippies and anti-war protest ever that occurred near this rink, this rink was operational for long time.
Wilma and Paul Klatka owned and operated this rink (Updated - 14 September 2022).
There was a controversy even right at the door of the rink. Everything is detailed in the article above written by the editor of the newspaper. A fraternity was going to host a party late at the rink but they did not arrive in time to start and left many patrons standing and waiting without music and it became uneasy.
Oh really, 5 USD according to the article Kent State University newspaper on 11 September 1991, yes, exactly 10 years before THE 9/11 horrible day in history since World War II. 5 USD was CHEAP! What was he complaining about the cost? I was making 3.85 an hour minimum wage at Sports-O-Rama in 1990, I was hired exactly a year before this newspaper article. It was already 4.15 per hour wage when I left. So, 5 Dollars is CHEAP. That is about an hour pay. You know what? The cost to skate today is around 12 to 15 US Dollars today depending on what rink but most rinks I had to add in this site went out of business in past 2 or 3 years are listed with the cost to skate from 10 to 15 Dollars per person. Today it is 12 to 15 Dollars an hour pay. It goes along the lines. So, 5 Dollars is nothing, man! I am sure you are woke now, Mr. Editor! Look, it was 10 Dollars per person at Sports, man! Since 1986! Ten Dollars! That was expensive back then! As for singles dance, finally the owner of the dance had to raise the price to 10 Dollars in year 2000 because her rent at a Knights of Columbus Hall went up. But of course, less people came because of rising cost. That is the name of game. It was hard for her with just 100 people. But she had to raise the price and it was a lost of 20 people average at the dances in early 2000s. I learned a lot from her. Could have had it at the rink but there were skating Saturday nights. So anyway...
It appeared to be built in 1955 and operated from that year till maybe mid-1990s. They sold the property most recent was in May 7, 2019 for 1,557,000 USD. That property is not what you think. It is a Sheetz car wash and gas station. According to Google Map which only can go far back as 2009 in this part. It was the gas station all that time and it was sold to a new owner for the gas station, not the rink.
But I have more proof. It was USGS showed me it was not 1955. I do not have any photographs older than 1952. It showed that the building was already built before 1955. So, the rink was around longer than that. but it was gone by the year 2000. It sat empty till around 2008 when Sheetz bought it and put the pumps and canopy over exactly where the rink was. The C-store was built along with the car wash behind the store on the empty property behind where the rink was.
So that was almost 60 years the rink was in operational. More like 55-ish.
What was interesting is that the address was the same as for the house! I see it was behind the former rink and it still sits there behind the gas station. Was that the owner of the rink at the time who owned the house? Good question. Updated- 14 September 2022: Yes, the owners lived in that house.
Unfortunately I do not have any photos of the place! Just top view! And no photos of the interior. Oh well. Anyone?
UPDATE! -- 14 September 2022.
I received an email regarding this rink. Interesting but sad story to it.
The owners did live in the house in back of the rink. The article states the owner as Wilma Klatka but both she and her husband Paul owned the rink. The bus photo shown is the one used to shuttle skaters and it is also the one that fell on Paul killing him while he was making repairs on it. I couldn't remember when he died but here is his lifeline.
When Paul Karl Klatka was born on 27 September 1923, in Columbus, Franklin, Ohio, United States, his father, Stanislaw Stanley Klatka Sr., was 32 and his mother, Sophie Tekla Jankowski, was 25. He married Wilma Francis Naftzger on 18 August 1945, in Geauga, Ohio, United States. He lived in Ohio, United States in 1935 and Fowlers Mill, Munson Township, Geauga, Ohio, United States in 1940. He died on 6 October 1969, in Kent, Portage, Ohio, United States, at the age of 46, and was buried in Washington, United States.
Thank you so much for your information and please do send pictures! Thanks again!
The Interior.
N/A.
The Exterior.
Original Building: Free-Span Steel Trusses White Bricks - Walled Industrial - like Building with Flatted Roof.
Remodeled Building: Free-Span Steel Trusses Steel - Walled Warehouse - like Building with Flatted Roof.
The Stats:
Rink Size: N/A. Floor: N/A. Floor Layout: N/A.
Building Size: N/A. Built/Renovations: 1955. Renovated: N/A. Demolished: 1999 to make way for gas station.
Original Building: Free-Span Steel Trusses White Bricks - Walled Industrial - like Building.
Remodeled Building: Free-Span Steel Trusses Steel - Walled Warehouse - like Building.
Roof: Flatted.
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)-- 1949 to 1999.
Reason for Closure: N/A.
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:
Daily Kent Stater - Editorial on the controversy involving a party at the rink. (PDF) (11 September 1991, page 2)
Daily Kent Stater - newspaper ad, Friday 11 October 1968, page 4, first column. (PDF)
Daily Kent Stater - newspaper ad, Wednesday 21 September 1994. Page 3. (PDF)
Flickr - The bus. (David Wilson)
Cluster Maps - Dates.
My Shopify - T-shirt you can buy. It did explain about the rink though.
Facebook - Remembering Ohio Roller Skating Rinks of the Past and Present.
Email - S.H. (14 September 2022).
Date of issue: 26 September 2021.
Updated: 14 September 2022
For office use only: 12.
Worth to visit:
None. It is currently a gas station.
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 are rebooted to allow 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.
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Wilma and Paul Klatka owned and operated this rink (Updated - 14 September 2022).
There was a controversy even right at the door of the rink. Everything is detailed in the article above written by the editor of the newspaper. A fraternity was going to host a party late at the rink but they did not arrive in time to start and left many patrons standing and waiting without music and it became uneasy.
Oh really, 5 USD according to the article Kent State University newspaper on 11 September 1991, yes, exactly 10 years before THE 9/11 horrible day in history since World War II. 5 USD was CHEAP! What was he complaining about the cost? I was making 3.85 an hour minimum wage at Sports-O-Rama in 1990, I was hired exactly a year before this newspaper article. It was already 4.15 per hour wage when I left. So, 5 Dollars is CHEAP. That is about an hour pay. You know what? The cost to skate today is around 12 to 15 US Dollars today depending on what rink but most rinks I had to add in this site went out of business in past 2 or 3 years are listed with the cost to skate from 10 to 15 Dollars per person. Today it is 12 to 15 Dollars an hour pay. It goes along the lines. So, 5 Dollars is nothing, man! I am sure you are woke now, Mr. Editor! Look, it was 10 Dollars per person at Sports, man! Since 1986! Ten Dollars! That was expensive back then! As for singles dance, finally the owner of the dance had to raise the price to 10 Dollars in year 2000 because her rent at a Knights of Columbus Hall went up. But of course, less people came because of rising cost. That is the name of game. It was hard for her with just 100 people. But she had to raise the price and it was a lost of 20 people average at the dances in early 2000s. I learned a lot from her. Could have had it at the rink but there were skating Saturday nights. So anyway...
It appeared to be built in 1955 and operated from that year till maybe mid-1990s. They sold the property most recent was in May 7, 2019 for 1,557,000 USD. That property is not what you think. It is a Sheetz car wash and gas station. According to Google Map which only can go far back as 2009 in this part. It was the gas station all that time and it was sold to a new owner for the gas station, not the rink.
But I have more proof. It was USGS showed me it was not 1955. I do not have any photographs older than 1952. It showed that the building was already built before 1955. So, the rink was around longer than that. but it was gone by the year 2000. It sat empty till around 2008 when Sheetz bought it and put the pumps and canopy over exactly where the rink was. The C-store was built along with the car wash behind the store on the empty property behind where the rink was.
So that was almost 60 years the rink was in operational. More like 55-ish.
What was interesting is that the address was the same as for the house! I see it was behind the former rink and it still sits there behind the gas station. Was that the owner of the rink at the time who owned the house? Good question. Updated- 14 September 2022: Yes, the owners lived in that house.
Unfortunately I do not have any photos of the place! Just top view! And no photos of the interior. Oh well. Anyone?
UPDATE! -- 14 September 2022.
I received an email regarding this rink. Interesting but sad story to it.
The owners did live in the house in back of the rink. The article states the owner as Wilma Klatka but both she and her husband Paul owned the rink. The bus photo shown is the one used to shuttle skaters and it is also the one that fell on Paul killing him while he was making repairs on it. I couldn't remember when he died but here is his lifeline.
When Paul Karl Klatka was born on 27 September 1923, in Columbus, Franklin, Ohio, United States, his father, Stanislaw Stanley Klatka Sr., was 32 and his mother, Sophie Tekla Jankowski, was 25. He married Wilma Francis Naftzger on 18 August 1945, in Geauga, Ohio, United States. He lived in Ohio, United States in 1935 and Fowlers Mill, Munson Township, Geauga, Ohio, United States in 1940. He died on 6 October 1969, in Kent, Portage, Ohio, United States, at the age of 46, and was buried in Washington, United States.
Thank you so much for your information and please do send pictures! Thanks again!
The Interior.
N/A.
The Exterior.
Original Building: Free-Span Steel Trusses White Bricks - Walled Industrial - like Building with Flatted Roof.
Remodeled Building: Free-Span Steel Trusses Steel - Walled Warehouse - like Building with Flatted Roof.
The Stats:
Rink Size: N/A. Floor: N/A. Floor Layout: N/A.
Building Size: N/A. Built/Renovations: 1955. Renovated: N/A. Demolished: 1999 to make way for gas station.
Original Building: Free-Span Steel Trusses White Bricks - Walled Industrial - like Building.
Remodeled Building: Free-Span Steel Trusses Steel - Walled Warehouse - like Building.
Roof: Flatted.
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)-- 1949 to 1999.
Reason for Closure: N/A.
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:
Daily Kent Stater - Editorial on the controversy involving a party at the rink. (PDF) (11 September 1991, page 2)
Daily Kent Stater - newspaper ad, Friday 11 October 1968, page 4, first column. (PDF)
Daily Kent Stater - newspaper ad, Wednesday 21 September 1994. Page 3. (PDF)
Flickr - The bus. (David Wilson)
Cluster Maps - Dates.
My Shopify - T-shirt you can buy. It did explain about the rink though.
Facebook - Remembering Ohio Roller Skating Rinks of the Past and Present.
Email - S.H. (14 September 2022).
Date of issue: 26 September 2021.
Updated: 14 September 2022
For office use only: 12.
Worth to visit:
None. It is currently a gas station.
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 are rebooted to allow 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.