Park Circle Roller Skating 11 Ocean Parkway, Kensington, Brooklyn, NY. Source: Pinterest.
Park Circle Roller Skating 11 Ocean Parkway, Kensington, Brooklyn, NY. Source: Pinterest.
Park Circle Roller Skating 57 Canton Place, Kensington, Brooklyn, NY. Source: Google 2011.
Park Circle Roller Skating 57 Canton Place, Kensington, Brooklyn, NY. Source: Google 2012.
Park Circle Roller Skating 57 Canton Place, Kensington, Brooklyn, NY. Source: Google 2012
Park Circle Roller Skating 57 Canton Place, Kensington, Brooklyn, NY. Source: Google 2011.
Park Circle Roller Skating 57 Canton Place, Kensington, Brooklyn, NY. Source: Private individual wish to be private.
Park Circle Roller Skating 11 Ocean Parkway, Kensington, Brooklyn, NY. Source: The Brooklyn Daily Eagle - Saturday 19 October 1940. Copyrighted Digitally Remastered by Dead-Rinks (New borders, cleaned up).
Park Circle Roller Skating 11 Ocean Parkway, Kensington, Brooklyn, NY. Source: The Brooklyn Daily Eagle - Friday 6 September 1940. Copyrighted Digitally Remastered by Dead-Rinks (New border, cleaned up).
Park Circle Roller Skating 11 Ocean Parkway, Kensington, Brooklyn, NY. Source: The Brooklyn Daily Eagle - Wednesday 28 September 1949. Copyrighted Digitally Remastered by Dead-Rinks (New borders, cleaned up).
Park Circle Roller Skating 57 Canton Place, Kensington, Brooklyn, NY. This Dissolution showed the name as Park Circle Roller Rink, Inc. closing on 03 November 1978 but there is a conflict. There was a rink business name as Park Circle Roller Rink of Kings 11 Ocean Parkway, Brooklyn, New York. Hmm. That one was established a YEAR before Park Circle Roller Rink, Inc. dissolved. Hmm. Source: NYS Department of State.
Park Circle Roller Rink of Kings, Inc. 11 Ocean Parkway, Kensington, Brooklyn, NY. This is registration I speak of above this photo. Mysteriously! it ran from filing date of 19 December 1977 until it was dissolved on 25 January 2012. Was this the actual next rink after the previous owner closed? Sometimes paperwork gets to be overlapped. My opinion. Could be that rink in question was actually still running until 2012? It is possible because my proof is that they demolished in 2019. It was perhaps sat empty for a while till new developer bought it and got the permit to built his 9 story building to be completed in 2022. It does make sense. Source: NYS Department of State.
Park Circle Roller Skating 11 Ocean Parkway, Kensington, Brooklyn, NY
Park Circle Roller Skating 57 Canton Place, Brooklyn, NY
Park Circle Roller Skating 57 Canton Place, Brooklyn, NY
Park Circle Roller Skating was the official name, not adding "rink" to its name. The photograph actually showed it's real name. Park Circle had a very unique floor plan for this rink. It ran from 1940 to perhaps 1970s or 1980s. What was unusual was that the skate rental was on the second floor while the rink is on the first floor! Skating rinks typically have everything on the same floor. By judging the photo, you can see it has three stories or storys. And you can see even they had steps to go up a few short step to reach the first floor. Apparently the rink was popular as shown in this colored photograph that was originally in black and white. Perhaps third floor was offices, storage, and supply rooms.
Skaters had no problems walking up the stairs with shoes but put skates on upstairs where you had to surrender your shoes there, they would put skates on and walked down the stairs WITH skates on! Same with going up stairs to return the skates and get your shoes so you can leave to go home. Talk about hardship and laborious for skaters. This might be only rink that ever done this.
It had a real nice canopy over the main door. Rental on second, rink on first. Someone said in a forum that it had a piano (other said organ) upstairs for music on first floor. Must be they had a microphone or it was an open space to view the rink and the piano/organ music was playing from up there. They played that right up to the 1970s and removed it to have a DJ booth to play Disco music.
They had counter-rotation on the rink to skate during a music and the problem was that male skaters end up going to the bathroom door and slipped at the door because of wet floor and many other men followed suit and all slipped and fell on top one of the other! Good thing they had another door for the bathroom, the exit door and they were able to get out.
They had strict rules of its day that they had a man at the door checking the girls with their skirts with his ruler and if you do not meet requirement, you were send home. While that was happening, there was a floor guard who would whistle so loud that you can hear with music and the skates on the floor making noises. Floor guards would make sure you do skate right. You would be whistled to tell you to slow down if you go too fast. Or if you were going slow on the rail learning to skate and they would tell you to skate faster. This was the days before they now have dollys to give new skaters chance to learn how to skate.
They would even warn you if you bumped into someone. Things like that.
The staff were quite honest at the time. Good customer service that even a skater found a purse with money in it and she gave it to the skate rental staff so that if anyone is missing her purse, they would give it to the right person but no one claimed it so the girl who founded it received it instead. Nice of the staff. I take there were no ID in it.
The rink closed in 1970s. Was it the Disco music that pushed away older generations away?
They had 7 to 7 sessions, dancing, skating, and more.
Throughout the years, there were different operators.
Vincent Padula operated from 1939-1957 then added business partners, Morris Traub and George G. Cassy in 1950.Then total new ownership was Stephen Padula in 1958 followed by Joey Gaudy in 1970 then final operator was Steve Arena from 1972 until 1978.
What is more interseting and mysterious is that the original rink closed in 1978.
Interior:
11 Ocean Parkway:
Hardwood Maple floor.
57 Canton Place:
Exterior:
11 Ocean Parkway:
Old Red Masonry Brick multi-story building with Flat roof. Skaters had to climb stair to 2nd floor.
57 Canton Place:
They had Segmental Arched Yellow Masonry wall. Very arena like for this place. Free Span Steel Trusses Brick Arena-like building.
11 Ocean Parkway:
Rink Size: N/A Floor: Non-pained, coated, Maple. Floor Layout: N/A
Building Size: N/A Built: N/A Demolished: N/A.
Type of Building: Free Span Steel Brick multi-story Building.
Roof: Flat
Acres: N/A
57 Canton Place:
Rink Size: N/A Floor: Hardwood Maple, Polyurethane coated, Non-Painted. Floor Layout: N/A
Building Size: N/A Built: N/A Demolished: 2019 demolish to make way for multi story building.
Type of Building: Free Span Steel Brick multi-story Building.
Roof: Segmental Arch.
Acres: N/A
Operated: 19 October 1939 to 03 November 1978.
11 Ocean Parkway: 19 October 1939 to N/A.
57 Canton Place: N/A to 03 November 1978.
Reason for Closure: N/A.
Wanted: Information regarding exact dates of open/closed, why closed, size of rink, rink materials. Also photos/articles. Anyone knows or have photos, please let me know by emailing at [email protected]. Thank you. You can also use this form.
Sources:
Bizpedia - Circle Roller Rink of Kings.
http://kensingtonstories.blogspot.com/2010/01/park-circle-roller-rink.html.
Photo credits are shown above.
Note: They do have a Facebook page, however, they are private group and you could not view it. You have to join as member.
Date of Issue: February 2019.
Updated: 09 February 2022.
FOR OFFICE ONLY: 2.
© Dead Rinks. All Rights Reserved. Jn 3:3 to 17.
Skaters had no problems walking up the stairs with shoes but put skates on upstairs where you had to surrender your shoes there, they would put skates on and walked down the stairs WITH skates on! Same with going up stairs to return the skates and get your shoes so you can leave to go home. Talk about hardship and laborious for skaters. This might be only rink that ever done this.
It had a real nice canopy over the main door. Rental on second, rink on first. Someone said in a forum that it had a piano (other said organ) upstairs for music on first floor. Must be they had a microphone or it was an open space to view the rink and the piano/organ music was playing from up there. They played that right up to the 1970s and removed it to have a DJ booth to play Disco music.
They had counter-rotation on the rink to skate during a music and the problem was that male skaters end up going to the bathroom door and slipped at the door because of wet floor and many other men followed suit and all slipped and fell on top one of the other! Good thing they had another door for the bathroom, the exit door and they were able to get out.
They had strict rules of its day that they had a man at the door checking the girls with their skirts with his ruler and if you do not meet requirement, you were send home. While that was happening, there was a floor guard who would whistle so loud that you can hear with music and the skates on the floor making noises. Floor guards would make sure you do skate right. You would be whistled to tell you to slow down if you go too fast. Or if you were going slow on the rail learning to skate and they would tell you to skate faster. This was the days before they now have dollys to give new skaters chance to learn how to skate.
They would even warn you if you bumped into someone. Things like that.
The staff were quite honest at the time. Good customer service that even a skater found a purse with money in it and she gave it to the skate rental staff so that if anyone is missing her purse, they would give it to the right person but no one claimed it so the girl who founded it received it instead. Nice of the staff. I take there were no ID in it.
The rink closed in 1970s. Was it the Disco music that pushed away older generations away?
They had 7 to 7 sessions, dancing, skating, and more.
Throughout the years, there were different operators.
Vincent Padula operated from 1939-1957 then added business partners, Morris Traub and George G. Cassy in 1950.Then total new ownership was Stephen Padula in 1958 followed by Joey Gaudy in 1970 then final operator was Steve Arena from 1972 until 1978.
What is more interseting and mysterious is that the original rink closed in 1978.
Interior:
11 Ocean Parkway:
Hardwood Maple floor.
57 Canton Place:
Exterior:
11 Ocean Parkway:
Old Red Masonry Brick multi-story building with Flat roof. Skaters had to climb stair to 2nd floor.
57 Canton Place:
They had Segmental Arched Yellow Masonry wall. Very arena like for this place. Free Span Steel Trusses Brick Arena-like building.
11 Ocean Parkway:
Rink Size: N/A Floor: Non-pained, coated, Maple. Floor Layout: N/A
Building Size: N/A Built: N/A Demolished: N/A.
Type of Building: Free Span Steel Brick multi-story Building.
Roof: Flat
Acres: N/A
57 Canton Place:
Rink Size: N/A Floor: Hardwood Maple, Polyurethane coated, Non-Painted. Floor Layout: N/A
Building Size: N/A Built: N/A Demolished: 2019 demolish to make way for multi story building.
Type of Building: Free Span Steel Brick multi-story Building.
Roof: Segmental Arch.
Acres: N/A
Operated: 19 October 1939 to 03 November 1978.
11 Ocean Parkway: 19 October 1939 to N/A.
57 Canton Place: N/A to 03 November 1978.
Reason for Closure: N/A.
Wanted: Information regarding exact dates of open/closed, why closed, size of rink, rink materials. Also photos/articles. Anyone knows or have photos, please let me know by emailing at [email protected]. Thank you. You can also use this form.
Sources:
Bizpedia - Circle Roller Rink of Kings.
http://kensingtonstories.blogspot.com/2010/01/park-circle-roller-rink.html.
Photo credits are shown above.
Note: They do have a Facebook page, however, they are private group and you could not view it. You have to join as member.
Date of Issue: February 2019.
Updated: 09 February 2022.
FOR OFFICE ONLY: 2.
© Dead Rinks. All Rights Reserved. Jn 3:3 to 17.