Photo courtesy of CAITmyohmy on DeviantArt. An artistic form of photograph of a dead rink, the Roller Kingdom and you noticed graffiti took over the walls. Taken in 2006, before the Fire.
Courtesy of Muddyh2o. After the fire. See much destruction. Before total demolished. The walls were removed by an earth mover as seen on 1st Responder News website.
YouTube courtesy of Brianb 0676. Wow, interesting they had RC racing. He said the video was from late 80s/90s! An idea no one thought of at other rink till I found this tonight on Sept 6, 2019? Wow. Love that race! Cool one!
Roller Kingdom, 1983 Diamond Hill Road, Woonsocket, RI
This rink was one of the three franchised rink. Having said, the other two were in Hudson, MA and Tygnsboro, MA. This rink was operated from around 1980s to 2003. There are not any information available on this rink from its old website. Roller Kingdom in both locations in Massachusetts are still operational, however.
It did not say why they closed for good in 2003. They had their annual summer vacation (closing) and in 2003, they said they would reopened however, they did not reopened that year. And by 2007, they had a big fire which literally burned completely, well, almost and after that, they had to tear down the building because of the fire damages exposing the interior elements to outside which can invite trouble. Before 2000s, they even had summer camp to skate.
Apparently once it did happen after all. Two teenagers apparently "broke" in and the silent alarm went off and those two ran over to Walmart and went in and minutes later, many police cruisers went in and try to find out what was going on. They never got caught.
They even had very unique concept at the rink before it was closed. They had radio control cars racing on the rink. Perfect floor for a RC racing! In fact, there is a YouTube video showing a three minute long race and from what I see, this one RC guy did so well and won the race by leading over all other RC guys because he did so well without crashing. A yellow car apparently did crashed or spin out of control often. You can't do that in real life in NASCAR apparently.
The rink apparently sound like a good creative business plan with some variety of activities other than just roller skating. RC racing is a good concept and other rinks should follow suit and get rink open on more days/evenings to accommodate this practice and gain more business sense.
The interior had Maple wood floor with what it looked like Midnight Blue walls. Of course with White panel vaulted ceiling. It appeared large rink with no half-walls around the rink.
Sadly after it was closed on May 31, 2003, the fire on May 24th 2007 at 6 PM destroyed the rink for good. It destroyed the brick and metal building.
Google Map I will show above you have seen is what it was like after it was torn down. You can see the shade where the rink used to be and the rest of the building used to be.
Sadly, it has planned to be an expanded Walmart additions to their current building behind the former rink.
Rink Size: N/A Floor: Clear coated polyurethane coated Maple Floor Layout: Log Cabin. Standard (Figure Skating) and Radio Controlled Vehicle racing.
Building Size: 75' x 400' (30,000 SF). Built: N/A Burned down in 2007 by fire, demolished, and now word is that it will be expanded Walmart Department Store on property next door.
Roof: Conflict. Interior showed vaulted so it may have been Gable but exterior photo showed as flat.
Operated: c.1980s to May 31, 2003
Reason for Closure: N/A. (building burned down by fire in 2007, later demolished).
Wanted: Information regarding exact date open and why closed in 2003? Any photos of exterior before the fire especially in its heydays?
Sources: FRRP, Facebook, City-Data, Wikimapia, YouTube, Muddyh2o, 1st Responders News,
© 2019 Dead Rinks. All Rights Reserved.
This rink was one of the three franchised rink. Having said, the other two were in Hudson, MA and Tygnsboro, MA. This rink was operated from around 1980s to 2003. There are not any information available on this rink from its old website. Roller Kingdom in both locations in Massachusetts are still operational, however.
It did not say why they closed for good in 2003. They had their annual summer vacation (closing) and in 2003, they said they would reopened however, they did not reopened that year. And by 2007, they had a big fire which literally burned completely, well, almost and after that, they had to tear down the building because of the fire damages exposing the interior elements to outside which can invite trouble. Before 2000s, they even had summer camp to skate.
Apparently once it did happen after all. Two teenagers apparently "broke" in and the silent alarm went off and those two ran over to Walmart and went in and minutes later, many police cruisers went in and try to find out what was going on. They never got caught.
They even had very unique concept at the rink before it was closed. They had radio control cars racing on the rink. Perfect floor for a RC racing! In fact, there is a YouTube video showing a three minute long race and from what I see, this one RC guy did so well and won the race by leading over all other RC guys because he did so well without crashing. A yellow car apparently did crashed or spin out of control often. You can't do that in real life in NASCAR apparently.
The rink apparently sound like a good creative business plan with some variety of activities other than just roller skating. RC racing is a good concept and other rinks should follow suit and get rink open on more days/evenings to accommodate this practice and gain more business sense.
The interior had Maple wood floor with what it looked like Midnight Blue walls. Of course with White panel vaulted ceiling. It appeared large rink with no half-walls around the rink.
Sadly after it was closed on May 31, 2003, the fire on May 24th 2007 at 6 PM destroyed the rink for good. It destroyed the brick and metal building.
Google Map I will show above you have seen is what it was like after it was torn down. You can see the shade where the rink used to be and the rest of the building used to be.
Sadly, it has planned to be an expanded Walmart additions to their current building behind the former rink.
Rink Size: N/A Floor: Clear coated polyurethane coated Maple Floor Layout: Log Cabin. Standard (Figure Skating) and Radio Controlled Vehicle racing.
Building Size: 75' x 400' (30,000 SF). Built: N/A Burned down in 2007 by fire, demolished, and now word is that it will be expanded Walmart Department Store on property next door.
Roof: Conflict. Interior showed vaulted so it may have been Gable but exterior photo showed as flat.
Operated: c.1980s to May 31, 2003
Reason for Closure: N/A. (building burned down by fire in 2007, later demolished).
Wanted: Information regarding exact date open and why closed in 2003? Any photos of exterior before the fire especially in its heydays?
Sources: FRRP, Facebook, City-Data, Wikimapia, YouTube, Muddyh2o, 1st Responders News,
© 2019 Dead Rinks. All Rights Reserved.