Courtesy of Pinterest.
Both courtesy of Susan Miller.
Both photos above courtesy of Fellowship Denver Church. The rink floor still there! Beautiful Maple floor refinished.
Google Maps. First was taken in 2011, then the bottom in 2018.
New Skateland 1990 South Broadway Street, Denver, CO
Skateland Roller Rink 1990 South Broadway Street, Denver, CO
Skateland Roller Rink 1990 South Broadway Street, Denver, CO
I believe New Skateland and Skateland Roller Rink is one the same. People may have called it New Skateland and others just Skateland. Kind of like I call a shopping mall a different and original name and not the new name. Most people do that anyway.
Like I call Sports-O-Rama, Sports-O-Rama instead of Dance and Skate or Action Sports and Skate.
Well, the New Skateland first opened in Likely 1930s or 1940s. I have no dates to show. Nothing. Unfortunately, I could not say. But the building still standing today. After the rink was closed sometimes long before Performance Cycle motorcycle shop owned the building and had motorcycles there. But the motorcycle shop grew bigger and needed more room so they sold the building and property to a church in 2016 or 2017 and they renovated to make it a beautiful Art Deco building close to its former glory.
It had Hammond Organ music.
The Interior.
The interior had Steel Free-Span structure supporting Gable roof building and has still the original Maple wood floor that was recently refinished. Originally according to the postcard, it was painted WHITE! That was very rare to have a colored paint floor back the day when rinks had beautiful clear coated floors instead of the modern day painting of floors like some of modern rinks.
The interior was simple back the day. The walls were the same as exterior: Sand Yellow Bricks. Those bricks were more common back the day in Art Deco era than the Red Bricks.
Snack bar, lockers, seating were at one end. Also seating were along the walls for skaters to sit down to rest while skaters skate. The facility had 20,000 SF of skating floor. The building itself was 24,804 Square Feet. 4,803 of off rink part (About 1/5th was non-rink or 20 percent). Since the rink was 20,000 Square Feet, the size has to be like around 100' wide by 200' long or 85' wide by 235' long. Around there. Or even 95' wide by 211' long. Anyone know? If so, this was one of largest or longest rink. Apparently the original owners had in mind to compete against Mammoth Skating Rink to impress its roomy size but lacked what the Mammoth Rink had: the stands.
The church renovated heavily with new rooms for their offices and classes but also restored the floor.
The Exterior.
Like the interior walls, the exterior was in Art-Deco style and it had Sand Yellow Bricks and rounded corner where the main doors were. The look is unknown because I do not have picture and the sign perhaps was around that spot where the motorcycle shop and church has been or now displaying, respectively. It was long and narrow building.
The motorcycle shop closed up most windows and renovated the ugly Hip roof canopy by the doors but the church renovated and restored to get the rink building as landmark. However, they added the big smoked windows and also a new front door in middle of roadside wall. It does look beautiful and looks well balanced to the color of bricks and the building. I consider that is a good restoration.
The Stats:
Rink Size: 20,000 SF (one of largest) Floor: Originally White Paint Maple, later, clear Maple.
Floor Layout: Log (Current, cannot see in video).
Building Size: 24,804 SF Built: N/A Demolished: N/A
Type of Building: Free Span Steel Art-Deco style Building.
Roof: Gable
Acres: 37,500 SF
Operated: N/A
Reason for Closure: N/A
Wanted: Information regarding photos of exterior, if any interior as well. Dates of open and closed and why closed? Any sources? Only I could find are a photograph and a postcard stating size of rink.
Sources: Susan Miller - postcards. Fellowship Denver Church, Google Maps. Loop Net,
© 2019-2020 Copyrighted by Dead-Rinks. All Rights Reserved.
Like I call Sports-O-Rama, Sports-O-Rama instead of Dance and Skate or Action Sports and Skate.
Well, the New Skateland first opened in Likely 1930s or 1940s. I have no dates to show. Nothing. Unfortunately, I could not say. But the building still standing today. After the rink was closed sometimes long before Performance Cycle motorcycle shop owned the building and had motorcycles there. But the motorcycle shop grew bigger and needed more room so they sold the building and property to a church in 2016 or 2017 and they renovated to make it a beautiful Art Deco building close to its former glory.
It had Hammond Organ music.
The Interior.
The interior had Steel Free-Span structure supporting Gable roof building and has still the original Maple wood floor that was recently refinished. Originally according to the postcard, it was painted WHITE! That was very rare to have a colored paint floor back the day when rinks had beautiful clear coated floors instead of the modern day painting of floors like some of modern rinks.
The interior was simple back the day. The walls were the same as exterior: Sand Yellow Bricks. Those bricks were more common back the day in Art Deco era than the Red Bricks.
Snack bar, lockers, seating were at one end. Also seating were along the walls for skaters to sit down to rest while skaters skate. The facility had 20,000 SF of skating floor. The building itself was 24,804 Square Feet. 4,803 of off rink part (About 1/5th was non-rink or 20 percent). Since the rink was 20,000 Square Feet, the size has to be like around 100' wide by 200' long or 85' wide by 235' long. Around there. Or even 95' wide by 211' long. Anyone know? If so, this was one of largest or longest rink. Apparently the original owners had in mind to compete against Mammoth Skating Rink to impress its roomy size but lacked what the Mammoth Rink had: the stands.
The church renovated heavily with new rooms for their offices and classes but also restored the floor.
The Exterior.
Like the interior walls, the exterior was in Art-Deco style and it had Sand Yellow Bricks and rounded corner where the main doors were. The look is unknown because I do not have picture and the sign perhaps was around that spot where the motorcycle shop and church has been or now displaying, respectively. It was long and narrow building.
The motorcycle shop closed up most windows and renovated the ugly Hip roof canopy by the doors but the church renovated and restored to get the rink building as landmark. However, they added the big smoked windows and also a new front door in middle of roadside wall. It does look beautiful and looks well balanced to the color of bricks and the building. I consider that is a good restoration.
The Stats:
Rink Size: 20,000 SF (one of largest) Floor: Originally White Paint Maple, later, clear Maple.
Floor Layout: Log (Current, cannot see in video).
Building Size: 24,804 SF Built: N/A Demolished: N/A
Type of Building: Free Span Steel Art-Deco style Building.
Roof: Gable
Acres: 37,500 SF
Operated: N/A
Reason for Closure: N/A
Wanted: Information regarding photos of exterior, if any interior as well. Dates of open and closed and why closed? Any sources? Only I could find are a photograph and a postcard stating size of rink.
Sources: Susan Miller - postcards. Fellowship Denver Church, Google Maps. Loop Net,
© 2019-2020 Copyrighted by Dead-Rinks. All Rights Reserved.