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The Skating Rink 3001 or 3003 Citizens Parkway, Selma, AL
Selma Skating Rink 3001 or 3003 Citizens Parkway, Selma, AL
Selma Skating Rink 3001 or 3003 Citizens Parkway, Selma, AL
Both The Skating Rink and Selma Skating Rink were at 3001/3 Citizens Parkway, Selma, Alabama. This rink appeared very different on the outside as it is in the inside. Quite an interesting rink. Well, it appeared to be closed because nothing further than 2018 as I can find. In fact the facility was up for sale as of 2017. Nothing is known after that. It is closed for good after those dates.
Another thing, the address says 3001 and other says 3003. About half of websites say one or the other. Which one will you please stand up? Door number one? Or Door number two? Oh wait, that belongs to a game show. Haha. Never mind, which ONE is the correct mailing address.
There is no website, there are no true Facebook because of the way it is set up with their photos and posts. It does not sound like the real Selma Skating Rink Facebook page. Might have been hacked. I contacted them a couple of days ago but no one replied to my message to see if they are still in business. I doubt they are. Truly a mystery because Yelp and Google says nothing about them closed up for good.
OK, it has been a couple of days and I received no message from them. I assume they ceased operations. Unless someone tells me so. I called through the relay operator (I am Deaf) and it says the number is no longer in use. Therefore, the rink is closed for good.
The Interior.
While the exterior looks still new, the interior looked old school. They even have that steel pipes rails that were more common to pre-1965 era. Cinder-blocks semi-walls were built after that year but this rink was built in 1972. It was rather dated when they built this in 1974. It has several colors interior. White above, Red center, and below is Black with Yellow trims on the bars and foot-boards.
It was rather feeling heavy with those colors. This reminded me of GR8 SK8 interior. Similar colors but for this size rink with those colors makes it feel heavy, tiring, and not resting at all. True that roller skating is a form of fitness. You want to be charged. The darkness and fitness really does seem to go along but not helping. A national chain of fitness club uses their Mid to Heavy Gray with Purple would make people grunt with those colors. I may disagree with that chain for their stance on grunting and how people dress. Back to this, this is the whole point. If they have more brighter colors, and fresh paints, for this smaller rink, it is recommended brighter colors. Some newer rinks that are dead, they did have brighter colors to reflex their orientation toward family. Clean lines, whiteness, with little bit of dark to balance their "yin-yang" to it. Although they did have yellow to highlight it and for safety reasons such as the steel pipe rails to be yellow for safety purposes.
The website for that rink for sale has 2 bedrooms. That is quite odd to find that because I see it is a rink itself from Google Map. Was there an apartment behind or a house dis-attached?
There everything up front with a little bit of space on side for seating and three arcade games. They even have a pool table maybe bit too close to the enter/exit from the rink.
The Exterior.
It is a low pitch Gable Free-Span Steel Truss Steel-Walled with Brick-Front Store-like Building. It has classical brick color of Soft Brick Red and Brick Brown that were common in 1970s. What more interesting that they have a checkered flag logo called, The Skating Rink. But their newer sign on the ground front of the sign says Selma Skating Rink. Likely the sign on the wall might have been there before the name change and they kept that name. I am not sure. All media said that their name is Selma Skating Rink. The Black-n-White checkered flag has the same colors as interior-Yellow and Black. But the fonts were Red. The flag appeared to be waving but is a mural on the beautiful bricks.
Front door is on a corner.
The low pitch was done to save costs than high and besides that, it is not like up in Snow Belt region where heavy snow would built up. This is why in the Snow Belt, roof pitches are higher to slide off snow and ice.
The Stats:
Rink Size: N/A. Floor: Maple. Floor Layout: LOG
Building Size: 13,050 SF. Built: 1972. Demolished: N/A.
Type of Building: Free-Span Steel Truss Steel-Walled (exterior) with Cinder-blocks with Brick-Front Store-like Building.
Roof: Gable, low pitch.
Acres: 1.08 Acres.
Operated: 1972 to 2018 (2019?).
Reason for Closure: N/A.
Wanted: Information regarding exact dates of open and closed and why close?
Anyone has pictures and/or information please let me know at [email protected]. Thank you.
Sources: Divinity Realty, Facebook (name still there but nothing to do rink), Yelp, Google, Info Free,
Find Glocal, Realtor,
© 2019-2020 Copyrighted by Dead-Rinks. All Rights Reserved. God Matters. Ps 86:10.
Another thing, the address says 3001 and other says 3003. About half of websites say one or the other. Which one will you please stand up? Door number one? Or Door number two? Oh wait, that belongs to a game show. Haha. Never mind, which ONE is the correct mailing address.
There is no website, there are no true Facebook because of the way it is set up with their photos and posts. It does not sound like the real Selma Skating Rink Facebook page. Might have been hacked. I contacted them a couple of days ago but no one replied to my message to see if they are still in business. I doubt they are. Truly a mystery because Yelp and Google says nothing about them closed up for good.
OK, it has been a couple of days and I received no message from them. I assume they ceased operations. Unless someone tells me so. I called through the relay operator (I am Deaf) and it says the number is no longer in use. Therefore, the rink is closed for good.
The Interior.
While the exterior looks still new, the interior looked old school. They even have that steel pipes rails that were more common to pre-1965 era. Cinder-blocks semi-walls were built after that year but this rink was built in 1972. It was rather dated when they built this in 1974. It has several colors interior. White above, Red center, and below is Black with Yellow trims on the bars and foot-boards.
It was rather feeling heavy with those colors. This reminded me of GR8 SK8 interior. Similar colors but for this size rink with those colors makes it feel heavy, tiring, and not resting at all. True that roller skating is a form of fitness. You want to be charged. The darkness and fitness really does seem to go along but not helping. A national chain of fitness club uses their Mid to Heavy Gray with Purple would make people grunt with those colors. I may disagree with that chain for their stance on grunting and how people dress. Back to this, this is the whole point. If they have more brighter colors, and fresh paints, for this smaller rink, it is recommended brighter colors. Some newer rinks that are dead, they did have brighter colors to reflex their orientation toward family. Clean lines, whiteness, with little bit of dark to balance their "yin-yang" to it. Although they did have yellow to highlight it and for safety reasons such as the steel pipe rails to be yellow for safety purposes.
The website for that rink for sale has 2 bedrooms. That is quite odd to find that because I see it is a rink itself from Google Map. Was there an apartment behind or a house dis-attached?
There everything up front with a little bit of space on side for seating and three arcade games. They even have a pool table maybe bit too close to the enter/exit from the rink.
The Exterior.
It is a low pitch Gable Free-Span Steel Truss Steel-Walled with Brick-Front Store-like Building. It has classical brick color of Soft Brick Red and Brick Brown that were common in 1970s. What more interesting that they have a checkered flag logo called, The Skating Rink. But their newer sign on the ground front of the sign says Selma Skating Rink. Likely the sign on the wall might have been there before the name change and they kept that name. I am not sure. All media said that their name is Selma Skating Rink. The Black-n-White checkered flag has the same colors as interior-Yellow and Black. But the fonts were Red. The flag appeared to be waving but is a mural on the beautiful bricks.
Front door is on a corner.
The low pitch was done to save costs than high and besides that, it is not like up in Snow Belt region where heavy snow would built up. This is why in the Snow Belt, roof pitches are higher to slide off snow and ice.
The Stats:
Rink Size: N/A. Floor: Maple. Floor Layout: LOG
Building Size: 13,050 SF. Built: 1972. Demolished: N/A.
Type of Building: Free-Span Steel Truss Steel-Walled (exterior) with Cinder-blocks with Brick-Front Store-like Building.
Roof: Gable, low pitch.
Acres: 1.08 Acres.
Operated: 1972 to 2018 (2019?).
Reason for Closure: N/A.
Wanted: Information regarding exact dates of open and closed and why close?
Anyone has pictures and/or information please let me know at [email protected]. Thank you.
Sources: Divinity Realty, Facebook (name still there but nothing to do rink), Yelp, Google, Info Free,
Find Glocal, Realtor,
© 2019-2020 Copyrighted by Dead-Rinks. All Rights Reserved. God Matters. Ps 86:10.