Google Map. In 2008, in its happier days. See the roof? Yeah, bit odd.
Above two photos courtesy of Facebook Group. Yes, they had their vinyl on the rink.
Internet archives capture. A 2008 website edition.
Courtesy of Skatetime Facebook group. Graffiti of the rink name.
Three photos courtesy of CT Post. Fire destroyed the rink and shooting range as firefighters fought on Wednesday November 3, 2010.
Courtesy of Patch. See how bad the fire was? Really spread over to the other side of the rink away from the shooting range. FIVE fire departments were called in. Praise God no injuries. Thank you for your service, fire fighters!
SkateTime 193 Main Street, Monroe, CT aka
SkateTyme 193 Main Street, Monroe, CT
SkateTyme 193 Main Street, Monroe, CT
SkateTime or known as Skatetype with the "y" in the time. They were on 193 Main Street, Monroe, Connecticut. They opened in 1988 until they were closed due to a fire in 2010 and the building was demolished as you can see on Google Map history.
Skatetyme was opened in this storefront business with very unusual roof design and its a mix type roof and storefront building. But it was a rink from 1988 till the fire. Google did a capture of the building in 2008 and the US Geographical Society has it in 2010. Art DeFrancisco and building owner and co-owner,John Scianna Sr opened the rink.
According to the historical aerial photos, the oldest I have with the building was in 1963, because the last time before that, they took in 1949 and there was none of that building. So, it was built after 1949. According to the newspaper article I found, the building was roughly 70 years old by the time of the fire in 2010. This is end of 2020, 80 years ago they build that. This means 1940. Or around 1940s they build this.
The fire in 2010 totaled destroyed 2 entertainment related businesses and an apartment. Besides the eink, the indoor shooting range was also burned. They suspected the fire started in the shooting range area. Perhaps a hot bullet? Who knew. The fire was massive that caused the roof collapsed and pushed out cinderblock walls out onto the parking lot area. The fire occurred around 10:15 AM on November 2, 2010.
This fire brought 5 fire departments. Sounded very serious. Similar to the serious fire of Long Beach Rink in 1960s. Also known as Lordship Skating Rink. It does because the rink itself are usually very open space which allowed oxygen to be consumed by fire plus rinks are usually wood which is very much compulsive like a furnace in the building which domino effected the melt down and break roofs that can push out walls. That is how fire works. An Arizona rink faced same fate. A few others I have not even worked on yet also faced the same problem. Roller Palace had five fire departments fighting the fire just like this one was at SkateTyme.
After the fire, both businesses wanted to rebuilt and the building owner, John Scianna Sr. wanted it rebuilt and had proposed but apparently it was a dead proposal, See Dead-Proposal on this: SkateTyme II. (will produce profile)
It does not make any sense the town turned down the proposal because in 2018, a new developer wanted to built an auto repair shop a warehouse set and should not be a problem. I am not sure if it will be built or not.
I do not like what the town was doing.
Anyway, now the property sits empty at the moment.
The Interior.
It had beautiful Maple wood floor but the interior was dark. Dark walls to make it more like a night club feel to it.
The Exterior.
It was a weird mix-roof design. Map showed better on top view. the rink had bigger slice of pie compared to the gun range. The gun had Arched-Curved roof as it was hip for the rink roof but the frontage is so silly. It had like 3 or 4 of the same mansard like stacking one top of the other. Who would do that? Clearly the original was the Arched-Curve building where the range was and the other building was built as expansion.
The apartment was above the rink with a single window as seen in the photos on Google Map and with fire happening.
Really odd design on the outside really.
The new one would have been a real nice better design. But with vinyl siding? I am not crazy about vinyl siding either. Not a good source for energy saving and it is a cheap cosmetic look which is more common with houses than commercial buildings. This is why you almost never seen them on commercial building after 1970s. Too rare they used them and instead they went with stucco and now, multi-materials in the era of Graying of America.
Steel sheet metal would be best for the rink if they were on budget.
The Stats:
Rink Size: N/A. Floor: Maple. Floor Layout: N/A.
Building Size: N/A. Built: N/A. Demolished: 2010 due to fire, demolished immediately after fire.
Type of Building: Free-Span Steel Truss cinderblock-Walled Storefront - like Building.
Roof: Mix.
Acres: N/A.
Operated: 1988 to 2010.
Reason for Closure: Fire, failed to have new rink due to town refusal to rebuilt rink.
Wanted: Information regarding actual dates of open, size of rink, Also photos.
Anyone has pictures and/or information please let me know at [email protected]. Thank you.
Sources: The Monroe Sun - Developer eyes former rink property; USGS - Aerial view of property;
CT Post - Fire destroys 2 businesses; CT Post - Fire not suspicious; Facebook - group;
Dun & Bradstreet - Skatetime; Patch - for proposal rebuilt later denied;
© Copyrighted by Dead-Rinks. All Rights Reserved. Jn 3:16.
Skatetyme was opened in this storefront business with very unusual roof design and its a mix type roof and storefront building. But it was a rink from 1988 till the fire. Google did a capture of the building in 2008 and the US Geographical Society has it in 2010. Art DeFrancisco and building owner and co-owner,John Scianna Sr opened the rink.
According to the historical aerial photos, the oldest I have with the building was in 1963, because the last time before that, they took in 1949 and there was none of that building. So, it was built after 1949. According to the newspaper article I found, the building was roughly 70 years old by the time of the fire in 2010. This is end of 2020, 80 years ago they build that. This means 1940. Or around 1940s they build this.
The fire in 2010 totaled destroyed 2 entertainment related businesses and an apartment. Besides the eink, the indoor shooting range was also burned. They suspected the fire started in the shooting range area. Perhaps a hot bullet? Who knew. The fire was massive that caused the roof collapsed and pushed out cinderblock walls out onto the parking lot area. The fire occurred around 10:15 AM on November 2, 2010.
This fire brought 5 fire departments. Sounded very serious. Similar to the serious fire of Long Beach Rink in 1960s. Also known as Lordship Skating Rink. It does because the rink itself are usually very open space which allowed oxygen to be consumed by fire plus rinks are usually wood which is very much compulsive like a furnace in the building which domino effected the melt down and break roofs that can push out walls. That is how fire works. An Arizona rink faced same fate. A few others I have not even worked on yet also faced the same problem. Roller Palace had five fire departments fighting the fire just like this one was at SkateTyme.
After the fire, both businesses wanted to rebuilt and the building owner, John Scianna Sr. wanted it rebuilt and had proposed but apparently it was a dead proposal, See Dead-Proposal on this: SkateTyme II. (will produce profile)
It does not make any sense the town turned down the proposal because in 2018, a new developer wanted to built an auto repair shop a warehouse set and should not be a problem. I am not sure if it will be built or not.
I do not like what the town was doing.
Anyway, now the property sits empty at the moment.
The Interior.
It had beautiful Maple wood floor but the interior was dark. Dark walls to make it more like a night club feel to it.
The Exterior.
It was a weird mix-roof design. Map showed better on top view. the rink had bigger slice of pie compared to the gun range. The gun had Arched-Curved roof as it was hip for the rink roof but the frontage is so silly. It had like 3 or 4 of the same mansard like stacking one top of the other. Who would do that? Clearly the original was the Arched-Curve building where the range was and the other building was built as expansion.
The apartment was above the rink with a single window as seen in the photos on Google Map and with fire happening.
Really odd design on the outside really.
The new one would have been a real nice better design. But with vinyl siding? I am not crazy about vinyl siding either. Not a good source for energy saving and it is a cheap cosmetic look which is more common with houses than commercial buildings. This is why you almost never seen them on commercial building after 1970s. Too rare they used them and instead they went with stucco and now, multi-materials in the era of Graying of America.
Steel sheet metal would be best for the rink if they were on budget.
The Stats:
Rink Size: N/A. Floor: Maple. Floor Layout: N/A.
Building Size: N/A. Built: N/A. Demolished: 2010 due to fire, demolished immediately after fire.
Type of Building: Free-Span Steel Truss cinderblock-Walled Storefront - like Building.
Roof: Mix.
Acres: N/A.
Operated: 1988 to 2010.
Reason for Closure: Fire, failed to have new rink due to town refusal to rebuilt rink.
Wanted: Information regarding actual dates of open, size of rink, Also photos.
Anyone has pictures and/or information please let me know at [email protected]. Thank you.
Sources: The Monroe Sun - Developer eyes former rink property; USGS - Aerial view of property;
CT Post - Fire destroys 2 businesses; CT Post - Fire not suspicious; Facebook - group;
Dun & Bradstreet - Skatetime; Patch - for proposal rebuilt later denied;
© Copyrighted by Dead-Rinks. All Rights Reserved. Jn 3:16.