Top two photos courtesy of Four Square. Beautiful rink. Spacious interior. Bright. Clean. I like it!
Blue print courtesy of FRRP. What this drawing lacked was the layout of the rink itself. A goof up. But never mind. That is what the floor plan was like for the rink.
Courtesy of FRRP. Again beautiful interior.
Sat photo likely from Google. FRRP owned. you could not see in that photo, bottom of that picture is the Adventureland Amusement Park and this makes sense why the park bought the building in 2018 and I see its good business sense to have it as amusement/recreation center.. namely a skating rink again!
Narragansett Ocean Club Family Skating Center, 360 S Pier Rd, Narragansett, RI
This rink was in a Gabled roof warehouse style building with blue color on the exterior walls but also there were blue rails and walls in the same color. The trendy blue color came so early and they closed for good in 2015 before the fad of blue in. It was Royal Blue by the look of it. It is one of my favorite colors. The rink looks good at the time it closed up. I do not know why they closed for good.
It closed on April 30, 2015 for good with Oldies music playing after the rink was in operations for 33 years. Which dates back to 1982.
The floor, of course, Maple floor with fan lay outs at corners on each end. The rink appeared to be a very large one with high ceiling making this very spacious rink itself compared to the rest of the facility which just has space for games, rental, and snack bar area. The rink itself sized at 90 feet by 176 making is quite wide which showed it appeared to be large but shorter on length wise. Hockey floor is 85 by 200. It appeared to try to make up with the length by having wider. It does give plenty of room though and spacious.
It appeared to be quite comfortable for skaters according their comments and giving more room for their figure skating and skate jamming as seen in videos on Facebook.
Fans attempted to save the rink failed. It was sold to a competing grocery store that is too close to the the other grocery stores near by within a mile apart.
Fans have the rink on their Facebook fan page.
I understand among millions of skaters around the world are saddened that they could not skate at the rinks such as this one much.
The unusual appearance was the interior giving those arches in grid look (see photos) and it may not appear to go with everything else. It was a very basic rink. Not as fancy as a few certain rinks has done especially in the 1970s as see in SKATE magazine. The arches reminded me of symbolic arches common in my hometown, Syracuse, NY that buildings exterior has those looks. This rink definately I would have skated at had it was remained open this day. If it was, I would have given a good grade of two thumb ups.
MAYBE it will be back but the most updated information I got was in 2018 and I still have no information on this rink because of another family, the Kells family, who owns Adventureland, a local amusement park purchased the property for 1.3 million Dollars to save that building for a recreational use. The building sat vacant since 2015 and apparently the grocery store plans fell through. Will the Kells Family reopen? The article did not say anything. Please see link below. I sure hope so because they will need business throughout the year if their Adventureland closes in October for the winter. There you go, a good idea is to reopen the rink! Save the rink!
Rink Size: 90' X 176' (15,840 SF) Floor: Maple, clear coated polyurethane coated Floor Layout: Fan. Had figure skating outlines.
Building Size: N/A Built: 1982. Steel sheet, warehouse like. Now a grocery store.
Roof: Gable.
Operated: 1983 to April 30, 2015.
Reason for Closure: Retirement, sold to grocery store. Fell through, now owned by a family that owns the amusement park next door.
Wanted: Information regarding exactly date of opening.
Sources: FRRP, Independent RI (Ocean Club holds one final all skate, By Stephanie Turaj, May 8, 2015)
Local Gym and Fitness site, Adventureland purchases former rink (Adventureland acquires Ocean Club building, By Philip Cozzolino, The Narragansett Times, Mar 3, 2018), Four Square,
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This rink was in a Gabled roof warehouse style building with blue color on the exterior walls but also there were blue rails and walls in the same color. The trendy blue color came so early and they closed for good in 2015 before the fad of blue in. It was Royal Blue by the look of it. It is one of my favorite colors. The rink looks good at the time it closed up. I do not know why they closed for good.
It closed on April 30, 2015 for good with Oldies music playing after the rink was in operations for 33 years. Which dates back to 1982.
The floor, of course, Maple floor with fan lay outs at corners on each end. The rink appeared to be a very large one with high ceiling making this very spacious rink itself compared to the rest of the facility which just has space for games, rental, and snack bar area. The rink itself sized at 90 feet by 176 making is quite wide which showed it appeared to be large but shorter on length wise. Hockey floor is 85 by 200. It appeared to try to make up with the length by having wider. It does give plenty of room though and spacious.
It appeared to be quite comfortable for skaters according their comments and giving more room for their figure skating and skate jamming as seen in videos on Facebook.
Fans attempted to save the rink failed. It was sold to a competing grocery store that is too close to the the other grocery stores near by within a mile apart.
Fans have the rink on their Facebook fan page.
I understand among millions of skaters around the world are saddened that they could not skate at the rinks such as this one much.
The unusual appearance was the interior giving those arches in grid look (see photos) and it may not appear to go with everything else. It was a very basic rink. Not as fancy as a few certain rinks has done especially in the 1970s as see in SKATE magazine. The arches reminded me of symbolic arches common in my hometown, Syracuse, NY that buildings exterior has those looks. This rink definately I would have skated at had it was remained open this day. If it was, I would have given a good grade of two thumb ups.
MAYBE it will be back but the most updated information I got was in 2018 and I still have no information on this rink because of another family, the Kells family, who owns Adventureland, a local amusement park purchased the property for 1.3 million Dollars to save that building for a recreational use. The building sat vacant since 2015 and apparently the grocery store plans fell through. Will the Kells Family reopen? The article did not say anything. Please see link below. I sure hope so because they will need business throughout the year if their Adventureland closes in October for the winter. There you go, a good idea is to reopen the rink! Save the rink!
Rink Size: 90' X 176' (15,840 SF) Floor: Maple, clear coated polyurethane coated Floor Layout: Fan. Had figure skating outlines.
Building Size: N/A Built: 1982. Steel sheet, warehouse like. Now a grocery store.
Roof: Gable.
Operated: 1983 to April 30, 2015.
Reason for Closure: Retirement, sold to grocery store. Fell through, now owned by a family that owns the amusement park next door.
Wanted: Information regarding exactly date of opening.
Sources: FRRP, Independent RI (Ocean Club holds one final all skate, By Stephanie Turaj, May 8, 2015)
Local Gym and Fitness site, Adventureland purchases former rink (Adventureland acquires Ocean Club building, By Philip Cozzolino, The Narragansett Times, Mar 3, 2018), Four Square,
© 2019 Dead Rinks. All Rights Reserved.