Playland Roller Rink 2810 East Market Street, York, PA. The logo. Source:
Playland Roller Rink 2810 East Market Street, York, PA. The whole ground including swimming pool, motel, miniature golf course, and of course, the roller rink. Source:
Playland Roller Rink 2810 East Market Street, York, PA. A miniature golf course, 18 holes. You can tell which is the 18th hole because it appeared to be ramped into a hole. Maybe a clown or funny face that were common at miniature golf courses. One of the oldest still operational is Fairmont Glen. They do have a clown face at the 18th hole that you cannot retrieve a golf ball. Well, similar to this one. (Iknow its hard to see but it is similar layout design to Fairmont Glen. Source:
Playland Roller Rink 2810 East Market Street, York, PA. The swimming pool. It sure does look like an Olympic swimming pool stadium, does it? Very unique. Source:
Playland Roller Rink 2810 East Market Street, York, PA. Rendering from a brochure cover. Source: Playland Brochure.
Playland Roller Rink 2810 East Market Street, York, PA. The Playland Roller Rink. Source:
Playland Roller Rink 2810 East Market Street, York, PA. A postcard featuring the swimming pool and the motel, Playland Motel, a Congress Inn franchise. And yes, it was an AAA membership you could get a 10 percent discount at the time. From seeing this photo, it appeared the parking space in foreground with the sign in the photo has replaced the miniature golf course. Source:
Playland Roller Rink 2810 East Market Street, York, PA. A postcard. Untouched. Slightly damaged. Source:
Playland Roller Rink 2810 East Market Street, York, PA. A poster. Beautiful simple Minimalist style poster. Source: Google.
Playland Roller Rink 2810 East Market Street, York, PA. All big names were on this poster and advertisement scheduled to play. Back then, you even had to mail order tickets because there were no e-tickets you can order with your cell phones back then! Source:
Playland Roller Rink 2810 East Market Street, York, PA. A well kept patch for skating club years ago. Source:
Playland Roller Rink 2810 East Market Street, York, PA. Advertisement on the left, article on the right. Source: (Left): The Gazette and Daily - Saturday, 16 December 1950. (Right): The Gazette and Daily - Saturday, 27 June 1959.
Playland Roller Rink 2810 East Market Street, York, PA. Yes, of course, they had an outdoor roller rink too! Source: Skating News - December 1954 issue.
Playland Roller Rink 2810 East Market Street, York, PA. Another advertisement. Source: The Gazette and Daily - Saturday, 08 October 1960.
Playland Roller Rink 2810 East Market Street, York, PA. Two articles. On left was about the Youth Fellowship Ministry from Pleasant Grove United Methodist Church having a fellowship at the rink. The article on the right announcing the Girl Scouts Troop 36 having their own fellowship-- a skating party that maybe they would earn their merit badges. Scouting troops from both Girls and Boys had their own badges back then. Ask your Scout leaders to show you their skating badges if any. Source: The Gazette and Daily - Friday, 06 March 1970 (left). The Evening Sun - Tuesday 16 February 1971.
Playland Roller Rink 2810 East Market Street, York, PA. ...And the Brownies went skating as well. Source: York Daily Record - Thursday, 24 January 1974.
Playland Roller Rink 2810 East Market Street, York, PA. The corporation announced promotions. Sounds large enough to have owned many rinks. Source: York Daily Record - Monday 28 October 1974.
Playland Roller Rink 2810 East Market Street, York, PA. Advertisement selling admission tickets for Christmas. Noticed it said to fight against inflation. You remembered 1970s recessions were so bad. We all need that inflation fighter again in the 2020s for sure. Source: York Daily Record - Monday 02 December 1974.
Playland Roller Rink 2810 East Market Street, York, PA. Playland Brochure. Please click the link! This is the most complete information! Best one I ever seen for a rink! Confirmed for the material of rink floor, history of the storm, rebuilt, and everything else. If you want further reading, please do read 16 page brochure (scanned as 8 pages). No roller rink history website has this but we do! Source: Playland Brochure.
Playland Roller Rink 2810 East Market Street, York, PA. The massive fire destroyed the rink. Source: York Daily Record - 25 November 2009.
Playland Roller Rink 2810 East Market Street, York, PA. A massive fire destroyed the rink. All 100 skaters plus staff made it out safely. Praise God they are ok. The black smoke apparently indicate man-made materials that are burning. As a general rule, the darker the smoke, the more volatile the fire is. At the time when Asbestos were common used in construction materials. A lot of wood involved including the floor and the place is like a giant furnace thanks to its design of open space and wood. Oil or plastic are used for staining or coating respectively on the rink are also the cause. This is why it had black smoke, massive fire, and the materials that were burning. I believe they had to let it burn itself out. No fire fighting in this photo. Source: York Daily Record - Sunday 24 November 1985.
Playland Roller Rink 2810 East Market Street, York, PA
Roll "R" Way East 2810 East Market Street, York, PA
Roll "R" Way East 2810 East Market Street, York, PA
Playland Roller Rink and later Roll "R" Way East were located at 2810 East Market Street, York,
Pennsylvania. They were part of a large recreation/entertainment center. Far from an amusement park. Huge difference because they had a swimming pool, miniature golf, and a motel.
This rink first opened as Playland just before World War II which means in Sunday, 14 November 1941,
You see, Playland had a concrete floor. They started building it in (early) 1941 and by July a wind storm came through town when the rink was still under construction and the wind destroyed it all. So next day they rebuilt and it opened Sunday, 14 November 1941,. That storm was a hurricane and it injured two men severely who were construction workers. It nearly broke the owner's heart. The storm damaged at 4pm on 28th of July, 1941.
Playland was supposed to open in August but because of the damage, they rebuilt it the next day quicker and completed in November which gave them 4 months of rebuilt.
When they first opened, it was operational for years until 1985. It remained opened until the Great York Fire that occurred on Saturday, 23 November 1985 as Christmas shopping season began. The fire was so massive that the fire spits flew cross the street and could have started fire to the houses facing the burning building and even up on the hill. Residents came out to see the glow in the sky and found the rink was on fire. Homeowners for that area were concerned. The fire did much damages to immediately area. This brought to the end of the rink as Roll "R" Way East and they decided not to rebuilt. That came to end skating at that rink that the town was so familiar with. It was a popular rink.
Good news out of that fire was 100 children and teens and of course, staff escaped the fire. The children and teens lost their jackets and shoes, sneakers, and boots. I do not know the fate of skates they had on. Did they kept the skates or had to give it back to the rink management? Good question. If taken home, clearly no way to have those expensive skates to restart the rink.
Roll "R" Way is still operational today with three rinks starting in November 2022 with the newest addition buying the Donora rink formerly known as Valley Skate Center that just closed in September 2022. They have the other York location that was the West location. It is a chain of rinks. Likely back then it was just two rinks in same town but after the fire, I am sure they added some more and some closed or sold. That is to be remained to be seen.
Dave Sternbergh owned and operated Roll 'R' Way with his wife. I believe her name was Shettle.
Then the Sternberghs sold the complex to the operators of Roll 'R' Way chain and called it Roll 'R' Way East which was the other rink of the same name in same town. The owners of Roll 'R' Way were Lewis Quintin Jr.and his son, Gary Quinton.
In the website, this is interesting testimony about the day of the fire-- This was a coincidence!
Holly recalled the fire at THIS skating location! She writes, “I was at Roller Way East the day of the fire in ’85. I was there for a friend’s birthday party, and I swear to you, the song playing when the fire was discovered was Motley Crue’s ‘Smokin’ in the Boys Room!’ We were on the floor and were ushered right out into the parking lot, skates on and all! Never did get my jacket or sneakers from inside.”
-- York Blog - Joan Concilio 22 May 2013
I guess you need to be careful on playing what music, operators. Like a rock band that was killed in 1977 with a chartered plane. They had a song that might have been a curse. So.. this rink may have had an omen with that song indirectly. So, please start playing more clean music, folks!
The Interior.
Playland Roller Rink: Maple Hardwood was used for the floor as the interior was quite a scene! It was not as perfectly curved Half Barrel or even Quonset Hut style. The roofline was quite unusual Pretty much the rink was wall to wall front to back. However, the front, the Hammerhead layout as you can see in the photo were part of off the rink including admissions, office, organ, restrooms, Concession Stand, and eating area.
For the rink, the foundation was Pour Concrete followed by three layers of Tar and each layer was lay with roofing sheets then they put rough Pine boards down then finally, the Northern Michigan First Grade Special Select Maple Wood. This was confirmed by the brochure! It was already made by the rink as it was like they knew decades ahead of time before I could write this. Check this out. We got the information FIRST. See Brochure here. It was lay by a well established rink floor specialists, John T. Swanson Company of New York.
This was one of most unusual rink floor base, foundation, and topping with the Maple floor.
The rink floor was caluated by my own mind that they had 26,400 Square Feet. Here how I figured. The standard width of a sidwalk is 5 feet and the brochure said equals to 1 mile long sidewalk. That is 5280 feet.
Here is the math:
5280' x 5' = 26,400 SF. The actual width and length is unknown. NHL rink is 17,000 Square Feet because it has regulation size of 85 Feet Wide by 200 Feet long. We are talking much larger than NHL rink floor! The brochure did not clearly stated it included the off-the-rink area so its all moot. What was it?
Roll "R" Way East: Maple Hardwood continued the same. Updated the interior was most likely but I do not see them well because those postcards seen on the internet are not that great. Anyone has color postcards, please let me know! I would appreciate it.
The Exterior.
Playland Roller Rink: This building you saw in the brochure, photographs, etc. They are actually rebuilt! The building was a rebuilt because of the strong wind storm which was a remnant of a hurricane of 1941 (before they named hurricanes) and they savaged what they could and rebuilt to finish it. Kind of like what the two Bobs did to Back to the Future movie that they saw Eric Stoltz was not a good fit as Marty McFly and they had to reshoot entirely with Michal J. Fox before released the film. You get the idea.
Roll "R" Way East:
The Stats:
Indoor Rink Size: N/A. Floor: Non-Painted, Northern Michigan First Grade Special Select Maple Wood. Floor Layout: FAN.
Floor Foundation (Bottom to top): Poured Concrete, Tar, Roofing paper, Tar, Roofing paper, Tar, Roofing paper, 1 layer of Rough Pine boards then 1 Roofing paper, Top was Non-Painted, Northern Michigan First Grade Special Select Maple.
Outdoor Rink Size: N/A. Floor: Green colored Cement Hardener, Cement. (1954 to N/A).
Floor Layout: Banked Narrow.
Building Size: N/A. Built: Early until 29 July 1941. Rebuilt: From 30 July 1941 to 17 November 1941. Renovations: N/A.
Demolished: Destroyed by Fire, Saturday 23 November 1985 during afternoon session!
Type of Building: Free-Span Steel Trusses Cinderblocks - Walled Arena - like Building.
Roof: "St. Louis Gateway" Arch/Rilco Arch (Brochure says it was called Rilco Arches.)
Acres: N/A.
Architect: Evens, Moore, & Woodbridge, 101 Park Avenue, New York, NY.
Contractor: N/A.
Interior Designer: N/A.
Rink Floor Specialist Contractor: John T. Swanson Company of New York.
Organ: Hammond.
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: Appeared to be 18 holes according to picture. Might have been a moderate level of difficulty than a standard Putt Putt® mini-golf course which is usually at easy level of difficulty. Set very similar to that ionic brand but very long putting courses. It appears to be longer coursees.
Arcade: (Number unknown)
Skee-Ball: N/A.
Fascination: None.
Restaurant: Neptune Lounge. Bury's Hamburger Stand was next door.
Candle Light Inn
Cocktail lounge: Possible by the motel but not sure.
Laser Tag: None.
Bounce Houses: None.
Bumper Cars: None.
Go-Kart: None.
Motel: Number of rooms is unknown. They had motel surrounded the swimming pool.
Swimming Pool: Motel walled off completely rounded from the pool.
Jungle Gym Playground: Just outdoors playground.
Skate Park: None.
Picnic area: Number of grille: 13 including a pavilion.
Operated: (Overall)-- Sunday, 14 November 1941 to Saturday 23 November 1985 (fire).
Playland Roller Rink: Sunday, 14 November 1941 to c. 1970.
Roll "R" Way East: c. 1970 to Saturday 23 November 1985 (fire).
Reason for Closure: N/A.
Playland Roller Rink: N/A.
Roll "R" Way East: Destroyed by Fire, Saturday 23 November 1985 during afternoon session! (Decided not to rebuilt).
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:
Facebook - Roll R Way East and West.
York Daily Record - By Joan Conilio, 12 November 2016.
York Daily Record - By Jim McClure, 12 January 2007.
York Daily Record - Jim Hubley, 1997. (no link available).
York Blog - By Joan Conilio, 23 August 2020
Playland Brochure. PLEASE CLICK HERE! This is the most complete information! Best one I ever seen for a rink! Confirmed for the material of rink floor, history of the storm, rebuilt, and everything else. If you want further reading, please do read 16 page brochure (scanned as 8 pages).
Re/Max
The Gazette and Daily - 27 June1959
York Daily Record - Oct 28, 1974.
York Daily Record - Nov 27, 2009.
Many other articles and ads, please see photo gallery.
Date of issue: 08 October 2022.
For office use only: 23.
Worth to visit:
None. It burned down and is completely gone.
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.
Pennsylvania. They were part of a large recreation/entertainment center. Far from an amusement park. Huge difference because they had a swimming pool, miniature golf, and a motel.
This rink first opened as Playland just before World War II which means in Sunday, 14 November 1941,
You see, Playland had a concrete floor. They started building it in (early) 1941 and by July a wind storm came through town when the rink was still under construction and the wind destroyed it all. So next day they rebuilt and it opened Sunday, 14 November 1941,. That storm was a hurricane and it injured two men severely who were construction workers. It nearly broke the owner's heart. The storm damaged at 4pm on 28th of July, 1941.
Playland was supposed to open in August but because of the damage, they rebuilt it the next day quicker and completed in November which gave them 4 months of rebuilt.
When they first opened, it was operational for years until 1985. It remained opened until the Great York Fire that occurred on Saturday, 23 November 1985 as Christmas shopping season began. The fire was so massive that the fire spits flew cross the street and could have started fire to the houses facing the burning building and even up on the hill. Residents came out to see the glow in the sky and found the rink was on fire. Homeowners for that area were concerned. The fire did much damages to immediately area. This brought to the end of the rink as Roll "R" Way East and they decided not to rebuilt. That came to end skating at that rink that the town was so familiar with. It was a popular rink.
Good news out of that fire was 100 children and teens and of course, staff escaped the fire. The children and teens lost their jackets and shoes, sneakers, and boots. I do not know the fate of skates they had on. Did they kept the skates or had to give it back to the rink management? Good question. If taken home, clearly no way to have those expensive skates to restart the rink.
Roll "R" Way is still operational today with three rinks starting in November 2022 with the newest addition buying the Donora rink formerly known as Valley Skate Center that just closed in September 2022. They have the other York location that was the West location. It is a chain of rinks. Likely back then it was just two rinks in same town but after the fire, I am sure they added some more and some closed or sold. That is to be remained to be seen.
Dave Sternbergh owned and operated Roll 'R' Way with his wife. I believe her name was Shettle.
Then the Sternberghs sold the complex to the operators of Roll 'R' Way chain and called it Roll 'R' Way East which was the other rink of the same name in same town. The owners of Roll 'R' Way were Lewis Quintin Jr.and his son, Gary Quinton.
In the website, this is interesting testimony about the day of the fire-- This was a coincidence!
Holly recalled the fire at THIS skating location! She writes, “I was at Roller Way East the day of the fire in ’85. I was there for a friend’s birthday party, and I swear to you, the song playing when the fire was discovered was Motley Crue’s ‘Smokin’ in the Boys Room!’ We were on the floor and were ushered right out into the parking lot, skates on and all! Never did get my jacket or sneakers from inside.”
-- York Blog - Joan Concilio 22 May 2013
I guess you need to be careful on playing what music, operators. Like a rock band that was killed in 1977 with a chartered plane. They had a song that might have been a curse. So.. this rink may have had an omen with that song indirectly. So, please start playing more clean music, folks!
The Interior.
Playland Roller Rink: Maple Hardwood was used for the floor as the interior was quite a scene! It was not as perfectly curved Half Barrel or even Quonset Hut style. The roofline was quite unusual Pretty much the rink was wall to wall front to back. However, the front, the Hammerhead layout as you can see in the photo were part of off the rink including admissions, office, organ, restrooms, Concession Stand, and eating area.
For the rink, the foundation was Pour Concrete followed by three layers of Tar and each layer was lay with roofing sheets then they put rough Pine boards down then finally, the Northern Michigan First Grade Special Select Maple Wood. This was confirmed by the brochure! It was already made by the rink as it was like they knew decades ahead of time before I could write this. Check this out. We got the information FIRST. See Brochure here. It was lay by a well established rink floor specialists, John T. Swanson Company of New York.
This was one of most unusual rink floor base, foundation, and topping with the Maple floor.
The rink floor was caluated by my own mind that they had 26,400 Square Feet. Here how I figured. The standard width of a sidwalk is 5 feet and the brochure said equals to 1 mile long sidewalk. That is 5280 feet.
Here is the math:
5280' x 5' = 26,400 SF. The actual width and length is unknown. NHL rink is 17,000 Square Feet because it has regulation size of 85 Feet Wide by 200 Feet long. We are talking much larger than NHL rink floor! The brochure did not clearly stated it included the off-the-rink area so its all moot. What was it?
Roll "R" Way East: Maple Hardwood continued the same. Updated the interior was most likely but I do not see them well because those postcards seen on the internet are not that great. Anyone has color postcards, please let me know! I would appreciate it.
The Exterior.
Playland Roller Rink: This building you saw in the brochure, photographs, etc. They are actually rebuilt! The building was a rebuilt because of the strong wind storm which was a remnant of a hurricane of 1941 (before they named hurricanes) and they savaged what they could and rebuilt to finish it. Kind of like what the two Bobs did to Back to the Future movie that they saw Eric Stoltz was not a good fit as Marty McFly and they had to reshoot entirely with Michal J. Fox before released the film. You get the idea.
Roll "R" Way East:
The Stats:
Indoor Rink Size: N/A. Floor: Non-Painted, Northern Michigan First Grade Special Select Maple Wood. Floor Layout: FAN.
Floor Foundation (Bottom to top): Poured Concrete, Tar, Roofing paper, Tar, Roofing paper, Tar, Roofing paper, 1 layer of Rough Pine boards then 1 Roofing paper, Top was Non-Painted, Northern Michigan First Grade Special Select Maple.
Outdoor Rink Size: N/A. Floor: Green colored Cement Hardener, Cement. (1954 to N/A).
Floor Layout: Banked Narrow.
Building Size: N/A. Built: Early until 29 July 1941. Rebuilt: From 30 July 1941 to 17 November 1941. Renovations: N/A.
Demolished: Destroyed by Fire, Saturday 23 November 1985 during afternoon session!
Type of Building: Free-Span Steel Trusses Cinderblocks - Walled Arena - like Building.
Roof: "St. Louis Gateway" Arch/Rilco Arch (Brochure says it was called Rilco Arches.)
Acres: N/A.
Architect: Evens, Moore, & Woodbridge, 101 Park Avenue, New York, NY.
Contractor: N/A.
Interior Designer: N/A.
Rink Floor Specialist Contractor: John T. Swanson Company of New York.
Organ: Hammond.
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: Appeared to be 18 holes according to picture. Might have been a moderate level of difficulty than a standard Putt Putt® mini-golf course which is usually at easy level of difficulty. Set very similar to that ionic brand but very long putting courses. It appears to be longer coursees.
Arcade: (Number unknown)
Skee-Ball: N/A.
Fascination: None.
Restaurant: Neptune Lounge. Bury's Hamburger Stand was next door.
Candle Light Inn
Cocktail lounge: Possible by the motel but not sure.
Laser Tag: None.
Bounce Houses: None.
Bumper Cars: None.
Go-Kart: None.
Motel: Number of rooms is unknown. They had motel surrounded the swimming pool.
Swimming Pool: Motel walled off completely rounded from the pool.
Jungle Gym Playground: Just outdoors playground.
Skate Park: None.
Picnic area: Number of grille: 13 including a pavilion.
Operated: (Overall)-- Sunday, 14 November 1941 to Saturday 23 November 1985 (fire).
Playland Roller Rink: Sunday, 14 November 1941 to c. 1970.
Roll "R" Way East: c. 1970 to Saturday 23 November 1985 (fire).
Reason for Closure: N/A.
Playland Roller Rink: N/A.
Roll "R" Way East: Destroyed by Fire, Saturday 23 November 1985 during afternoon session! (Decided not to rebuilt).
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:
Facebook - Roll R Way East and West.
York Daily Record - By Joan Conilio, 12 November 2016.
York Daily Record - By Jim McClure, 12 January 2007.
York Daily Record - Jim Hubley, 1997. (no link available).
York Blog - By Joan Conilio, 23 August 2020
Playland Brochure. PLEASE CLICK HERE! This is the most complete information! Best one I ever seen for a rink! Confirmed for the material of rink floor, history of the storm, rebuilt, and everything else. If you want further reading, please do read 16 page brochure (scanned as 8 pages).
Re/Max
The Gazette and Daily - 27 June1959
York Daily Record - Oct 28, 1974.
York Daily Record - Nov 27, 2009.
Many other articles and ads, please see photo gallery.
Date of issue: 08 October 2022.
For office use only: 23.
Worth to visit:
None. It burned down and is completely gone.
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.