Google Map. 2013. I know, hard to read the painted sign. That blue hue almost blended with the Ship Gray color. Not good. Maybe Navy Blue would be best to make strong contrast colors but the building and color looked great!
Tennessean. Close up view of the rink front. Different font color I see. That is what the color should have been or maybe Red. How about Deep Blue? Purple..
Google Map, 2013. As Springfield Skating Rink but they added the garage door in this one.
Courtesy of the Tennessean. Currently sa 6D Engineering Company. Painted darker as Dark Cold Gray.
Simpsonstappedout.com A CAD/CGI rendering of the Simpsons TV show showing the rink frontage. You can see same name and the arch but slightly altered with the front looking like a movie theater. And yes, garage door in same spot as you seen in real photograph! Likely this real rink in Springfield, TN was the subject model for the popular cartoon show.
Simpsonstappedout.com. Noticed the cartoon version on the left as you saw on The Simpsons. At right, the Simpsons SIMS game. Clearly this rink was modeled after the real one.
Springfield Skating Center 4917 Highway 41 N, Springfield, TN
At 4917 Highway 41 N, Springfield, Tennessee, there was a roller rink before it currently an office building named after this former rink, Springfield Skating Center. Currently called At the Skating Rink. This somewhat narrow Segmental Arch building was a rink from 1969 to some date I do not know.
LaJune Dever and her husband, Sam started and operated this rink since they opened in 1969. But at some point early around 1985, Sam was ill with Cancer and died a year later making LaJune operate the rink entirely her responsibility ever since.
There was a very interesting game that kids would love to play: Spin to win a free treat.
Toward the end, the rink was in pretty much bad shape and the floor had no protection and had cracks in the steems between studs according to a dissatisfied customer on Yelp. That was not good.
Now it is an engineering business in the building with the garage door added. It is still family owned building but it was the rink operators' son who took over and turned into an engineering company. Now that the town is without any major entertainment for children-- no bowling center and no roller rink and both closed in 2014 and 2015 respectively.
David, the son of the operators dedicated the building to skaters by calling it The Skating Center.
This is the rink that sort of modeled after for the Simpson TV cartoon show. And looked like a video game as well. You can see it here.
The Interior.
N/A.
The Exterior.
It was Free-Span Steel Truss Cinderblock-Walled Warehouse - like Building with an Segmental Arch (Arched-Curved).
The Stats:
Rink Size: N/A. Floor: N/A. Floor Layout: N/A.
Building Size: 12,000 SF. Built: N/A. Demolished: Renovated into another business.
Type of Building: Free-Span Steel Truss Cinderblock-Walled Warehouse - like Building.
Roof: Segmental Arch (Arched-Curved)
Acres: N/A.
Operated: (Overall)-- 1969 to End of June 2015.
Reason for Closure: Retirement. Her son prefer to run an engineering business in the building. Building is still family owned.
Wanted: Information regarding exact dates of open/closed, why closed, size of rink, rink materials. Also photos. Anyone knows or have photos, please let me know by emailing at [email protected]. Thank you.
Sources: Dun & Bradstreet; Manta, Google Images; Yelp; Tennessean - closing;
Robertson County - Rink to convert into engineering offices; The Simpson Fandom website;
Date of issue: 08 April 2021.
© Copyrighted by Dead-Rinks. All Rights Reserved. Jn 3:16.
LaJune Dever and her husband, Sam started and operated this rink since they opened in 1969. But at some point early around 1985, Sam was ill with Cancer and died a year later making LaJune operate the rink entirely her responsibility ever since.
There was a very interesting game that kids would love to play: Spin to win a free treat.
Toward the end, the rink was in pretty much bad shape and the floor had no protection and had cracks in the steems between studs according to a dissatisfied customer on Yelp. That was not good.
Now it is an engineering business in the building with the garage door added. It is still family owned building but it was the rink operators' son who took over and turned into an engineering company. Now that the town is without any major entertainment for children-- no bowling center and no roller rink and both closed in 2014 and 2015 respectively.
David, the son of the operators dedicated the building to skaters by calling it The Skating Center.
This is the rink that sort of modeled after for the Simpson TV cartoon show. And looked like a video game as well. You can see it here.
The Interior.
N/A.
The Exterior.
It was Free-Span Steel Truss Cinderblock-Walled Warehouse - like Building with an Segmental Arch (Arched-Curved).
The Stats:
Rink Size: N/A. Floor: N/A. Floor Layout: N/A.
Building Size: 12,000 SF. Built: N/A. Demolished: Renovated into another business.
Type of Building: Free-Span Steel Truss Cinderblock-Walled Warehouse - like Building.
Roof: Segmental Arch (Arched-Curved)
Acres: N/A.
Operated: (Overall)-- 1969 to End of June 2015.
Reason for Closure: Retirement. Her son prefer to run an engineering business in the building. Building is still family owned.
Wanted: Information regarding exact dates of open/closed, why closed, size of rink, rink materials. Also photos. Anyone knows or have photos, please let me know by emailing at [email protected]. Thank you.
Sources: Dun & Bradstreet; Manta, Google Images; Yelp; Tennessean - closing;
Robertson County - Rink to convert into engineering offices; The Simpson Fandom website;
Date of issue: 08 April 2021.
© Copyrighted by Dead-Rinks. All Rights Reserved. Jn 3:16.