Google Maps. Close up of the two signs. One on top is under the canopy and the bottom photo above is outside. Yes, they have a lot of telephone and electricity wires there. That is why they are there in the way.
Google Maps. 2013 followed by 2019. Wow, this was huge! Three stories in this facility. The upper two were the rink and the bar. See how nature can take over an abandoned building? Yes, you see that right. Huge tree growing from under the canopy out and on Google Map, you should see how big it is! Almost covering the big sign.
Photos courtesy of Abandoned Buildings of Chiang Mai (website is down for good). Top photo in this set of three photos showed that stairways has yellow paint on the walls of the steps indictated that skaters have to walk up the stairs on the right side while the left for skaters leaving. Second floor showed a movie theater-like admission ticket booth and doors to enter. Noticed the vehicles parked on ground floor of this "mall." Also you can see the rink floor has buckled. warped.
Courtesy of UrExt. This is a better view from third floor seeing how the rink floor bucked.
Courtesy of UrExt. Some things are hard to explain here. But I can see upper right is the lockers, lower left above is the stairs to THE THIRD floor. Very night club feel of a roller rink. And 4th photo showed how much of a spider web is there.
Courtesy of UrEx. This is the skate rental counter. You cant see the shelves where all the skate rentals were. It is all gone, on the floor or stolen or God knows what happened to it.
Next three photos courtesy of We’re Lost And Everything Is Dirty (website is down for good). Those next set of three showed interior of the rink facility. Human view from the first floor up to the view of the ticket booths. If you noticed the booth to the right has some squares opening, must be they had monitors to display real time pricing list. Apparently it was taken down or stolen. Vegetation is growing inside of the building as well as spider webs have found permanent home with squatters at the rink. Attaching webs to what appeared to be skate rental counter. No skates are left there. It was taken apart and left the boots part on the floor.
Space Roller Extreme Sport & Techno Games 27 Kaeo Nawarat 5 Alley,
Chiang Mai, Thailand
Also known as Roller Club.
Chiang Mai, Thailand
Also known as Roller Club.
This skating rink was one of the most modern updated rink that should have been a prototype for all present and future skating rinks everywhere. Its failure was unknown but likely because of its location. Right in Northern Thailand! Not New York City, not Miami, not Los Angeles, not Chicago, not London, not Paris or any other major metropolitan cities or not even cities like Syracuse or Rochester, New York. Rather it was in unknown city globally most people do not know about. It was in Chiang Mai in Thailand.
Economy may have been also a factor too. It was the real estate bubble of late 2000s have caused this rink to shut down. Whatever the case, I did my research and only three websites were able to show this rather unusual rink in deteriorating form by roof leakages, squatters overtaken the property, the ground level became parking lot and a hall became garbage disposal area where people do not want to pay for trash pickup so they use that as a dump. The rink has collapsed even it was made with concrete. It was build on second floor of this mini mall-like complex.
No information regarding when it was first open. It showed it was, clearly with the space age look, it appeared to be 1980s. The look reminded me of a certain movie that a time traveler and his friend flew to 2015. That future theme truly reassembled in appearance. You will see in photos.
The rink being on 2nd floor has a wide staircase for many people walking up and downstairs. I could not see if it has an elevator. Likely not because this is not the United States of America where there is a certain law called Americans with Disabilities Act. There is a 1960s look of a post that says Roller Club and the other says Restaurant with a letter or two missing on there now.
The place clearly was very colorful at the time with bold colors including Blues and Yellows as their theme colors but quite a bit of the rest of the paints are gone or coverings gone.
The rink itself appeared to be a couple of rinks actually. One large one collapsed. But a website said it appeared to be naturally that way for more extreme skaters. More like it was made for skateboarders like a public skate park.
The other is narrow flat rink separated by a steel pipe rail. All around the rinks are the same type of rails instead of half walls.
There is third floor level for non-skaters can watch skaters skate. Because of this, this is considered the world's largest facility for a skating rink but they lost out that title because they are not in operating. So, the United States wins that title right up at Gutipa Skating Rink in Latham, NY near Albany, NY.
If you desire to see it, Please be careful or best is not to go in there because of squatters have taken over the rink illegally.
There are more I like to explain but a certain person refused as he is selfish not to show his photos so I will have to describe here. One photo from second floor looking down and up from the other side of the big stair: This is second floor view photo of the stairs, ticket booths and people parked under the rink. Noticed now squatters are now living behind the green sheet metal on second floor. On ground floor, some market IS still operational there apparently.
Second photo- Looking from ground floor facing the stair- Huge stair with an awkward shape "arch" with the words, "Roller Club" And the other "Restaurant" with a letter or two are missing as they fell off. Interesting about the stair that one half side has yellow paint on it. Apparently for people to walk on that side going up as the other going down.
The next one is showing all trash left there. People abandoned their trash. This is quite common in many countries around the world because the government does not have excellent trash removal programs because they are poor. Not only that, people do not have money to pay for trash people to come weekly to pick up the trash. This is quite sad. Let's skip this and move on.
The next photo showed the rink from that level, not upper level -- viewing from where skaters would stand. It looks more like a bar. Was this rink aiming for night club style skating rink that served alcoholic beverages? Nothing indicate that the rink has designs for children.
Next photo showed abandoned skates and spray paints. Roller skate boots without the trucks and wheels. Must be someone stole the metal along with the wheels for scrap yard money or sold on the internet. Noticed also a lot of spray paint cans. Punks left the paint there after they spray painted walls as you seen in many photos.
Then finally, you see the outside part out back that looked like unfinished addition or just a garden out back. Nature already overtook the area.
Someone commented on the internet that this rink was forced to close due to drugs dealing there that the police shut it down. That is not confirmed.
Disclaimer on this certain person and website.
Sorry, no link for this one because of his reasoning. Dead-Rinks does not accept any negative or selfish or greed or anything of that nature.
Wanted! PHOTOS of this rink both inside and out. Please submit photos of yours and I will post and credited to you. Wil NOT accept any photos that requires fees. Dead-Rinks does NOT make any money at all and will NOT pay for photos. Thank you for understanding.
Rink Size: N/A Floor: Poured and cast clear coated Concrete, 2 separate rinks.
Floor Layout: Skateboard park-like and standard roller skating rink next to each other.
Building Size: N/A Considered large-THREE stories! Built: N/A (C. 1980s?)
Operated: 1980s to around 2011.
Reason for Closure: Likely real estate bubble burst. Someone said it has to do with drug dealing and bust that the police had to shut it down.
Wanted: Information regarding actual open, closed, when built, why closed. Photos of rink before it closed.
Sources: Web Urbanist; Synapticism; Urb Exing,; Kath Mad... website; (there is another excellent site a loss on his part).
Date of issue: 2019. Updated: 19 April 2021.
© Dead Rinks. All Rights Reserved.
Economy may have been also a factor too. It was the real estate bubble of late 2000s have caused this rink to shut down. Whatever the case, I did my research and only three websites were able to show this rather unusual rink in deteriorating form by roof leakages, squatters overtaken the property, the ground level became parking lot and a hall became garbage disposal area where people do not want to pay for trash pickup so they use that as a dump. The rink has collapsed even it was made with concrete. It was build on second floor of this mini mall-like complex.
No information regarding when it was first open. It showed it was, clearly with the space age look, it appeared to be 1980s. The look reminded me of a certain movie that a time traveler and his friend flew to 2015. That future theme truly reassembled in appearance. You will see in photos.
The rink being on 2nd floor has a wide staircase for many people walking up and downstairs. I could not see if it has an elevator. Likely not because this is not the United States of America where there is a certain law called Americans with Disabilities Act. There is a 1960s look of a post that says Roller Club and the other says Restaurant with a letter or two missing on there now.
The place clearly was very colorful at the time with bold colors including Blues and Yellows as their theme colors but quite a bit of the rest of the paints are gone or coverings gone.
The rink itself appeared to be a couple of rinks actually. One large one collapsed. But a website said it appeared to be naturally that way for more extreme skaters. More like it was made for skateboarders like a public skate park.
The other is narrow flat rink separated by a steel pipe rail. All around the rinks are the same type of rails instead of half walls.
There is third floor level for non-skaters can watch skaters skate. Because of this, this is considered the world's largest facility for a skating rink but they lost out that title because they are not in operating. So, the United States wins that title right up at Gutipa Skating Rink in Latham, NY near Albany, NY.
If you desire to see it, Please be careful or best is not to go in there because of squatters have taken over the rink illegally.
There are more I like to explain but a certain person refused as he is selfish not to show his photos so I will have to describe here. One photo from second floor looking down and up from the other side of the big stair: This is second floor view photo of the stairs, ticket booths and people parked under the rink. Noticed now squatters are now living behind the green sheet metal on second floor. On ground floor, some market IS still operational there apparently.
Second photo- Looking from ground floor facing the stair- Huge stair with an awkward shape "arch" with the words, "Roller Club" And the other "Restaurant" with a letter or two are missing as they fell off. Interesting about the stair that one half side has yellow paint on it. Apparently for people to walk on that side going up as the other going down.
The next one is showing all trash left there. People abandoned their trash. This is quite common in many countries around the world because the government does not have excellent trash removal programs because they are poor. Not only that, people do not have money to pay for trash people to come weekly to pick up the trash. This is quite sad. Let's skip this and move on.
The next photo showed the rink from that level, not upper level -- viewing from where skaters would stand. It looks more like a bar. Was this rink aiming for night club style skating rink that served alcoholic beverages? Nothing indicate that the rink has designs for children.
Next photo showed abandoned skates and spray paints. Roller skate boots without the trucks and wheels. Must be someone stole the metal along with the wheels for scrap yard money or sold on the internet. Noticed also a lot of spray paint cans. Punks left the paint there after they spray painted walls as you seen in many photos.
Then finally, you see the outside part out back that looked like unfinished addition or just a garden out back. Nature already overtook the area.
Someone commented on the internet that this rink was forced to close due to drugs dealing there that the police shut it down. That is not confirmed.
Disclaimer on this certain person and website.
Sorry, no link for this one because of his reasoning. Dead-Rinks does not accept any negative or selfish or greed or anything of that nature.
Wanted! PHOTOS of this rink both inside and out. Please submit photos of yours and I will post and credited to you. Wil NOT accept any photos that requires fees. Dead-Rinks does NOT make any money at all and will NOT pay for photos. Thank you for understanding.
Rink Size: N/A Floor: Poured and cast clear coated Concrete, 2 separate rinks.
Floor Layout: Skateboard park-like and standard roller skating rink next to each other.
Building Size: N/A Considered large-THREE stories! Built: N/A (C. 1980s?)
Operated: 1980s to around 2011.
Reason for Closure: Likely real estate bubble burst. Someone said it has to do with drug dealing and bust that the police had to shut it down.
Wanted: Information regarding actual open, closed, when built, why closed. Photos of rink before it closed.
Sources: Web Urbanist; Synapticism; Urb Exing,; Kath Mad... website; (there is another excellent site a loss on his part).
Date of issue: 2019. Updated: 19 April 2021.
© Dead Rinks. All Rights Reserved.