Courtesy of Google Map. Top was taken in 2016 and bottom in 2018. Top is front, bottom is rear. Parking lot is on both front and back. The front faces South.
Courtesy of City of Longmont. Those two are the interior where the rink used to be. Let not the floor fool you. It is roller court/sports-court. Look careful!
St. Vrain Memorial Building Roller Rink 700 Longs Peak Ave., Longmont, CO
St. Vrain Memorial Building Roller Rink was once operational in this facility which is still operational. Just a dead rink, but the recreational building is still there and operated by the park and recreation department at Roosevelt Park in Longmont, Colorado.
Yes, some towns had roller rinks operated by the city, county, or state government. Usually they do that for at least one night a week on a Maple wood floor with basketball court layout on there.
It is a beautiful facility with this building, the St. Vrain Memorial Building. Real beautiful and large place. Originally it was designed and designated as a nuclear bomb shelter! Some of it would be in basement and others on ground floor! Oh no! Did not they know how destructive even a simple MOAB (Mother Of All Bombs), a non-nuclear destructive bomb can really be? Nuclear, Atomic, Hydrogen, Fusion, and EMF are much more destructive. Those on ground floor are done if that was a blast. No one can really survive underground because supplies last 5 years and radiation disperse in a certain hot spot for a long 56 years. Their dream came true to use this facility as a shelter was in 2013 because 150 people were displaced due to a flood.
No wonder a derby team from Longmont used their team name, Bombers. The Boulder County Bombers. It was a moniker.
I am sure they did not want to waste a building, this is perhaps why they built cloaking as a roller rink and other recreational needs while waiting for such a weapon blast that never came (so far so good! Whew). But only they did used as shelter in 2013 flooding.
It was newly opened center in 1952. I have no date when they stopped having the rink. I will get information when I hear from them. The facility is still operational though but no information on roller skating so its a dead segment of that place.
The Interior.
Beautiful modern looking facility. Of course, Maple wood floor. They may have updated the floor as I can see in the modern facility with much renovations. It does look new because they may have updated a lot even the floor. Back then it perhaps was quite different. Technically and originally this facility was designed and designated as a nuclear bomb shelter! The open floor was actually designed to house 100 to 150 cots (main floor). It is quite spacious and has high ceiling that you can see it is Arched-Curved. a D-shape design. Currently, they use roller court/sports court tiles on the floor!
The Exterior.
It has beautiful Modern Red Brick building with 1940s-early 50s architecture design. It is Early Mid-Century Design originally and it had renovated exterior as well as they did with interior. They added that Arch canopy at North side of the building. It is a beautiful complex surrounding beautiful park Very Utopia feeling to this neighborhood. This is one of must see town to visit. I can tell with the beauty there.
The Stats:
Rink Size: N/A Floor: Maple. Floor Layout: Likely straight. Currently basketball-volleyball courts.
Building Size: N/A Built: 1951 Demolished: Still standing, renovated.
Type of Building: Free Span Steel sports arena-like Building originally as a BOMB SHELTER!
Roof: Mixed- mainly Gable with Flat roofs, multi-levels.
Acres: N/A
Operated: 1951 to N/A (still operational for the facility).
Reason for Closure: N/A
Wanted: Information regarding old photographs, Why rink closed? Exact dates of open and closed. And when did they stop having it as a bomb shelter.
Sources: Time Call 1, Times Call 3 (About bomb shelter), Longmont building, City of Longmont,
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Yes, some towns had roller rinks operated by the city, county, or state government. Usually they do that for at least one night a week on a Maple wood floor with basketball court layout on there.
It is a beautiful facility with this building, the St. Vrain Memorial Building. Real beautiful and large place. Originally it was designed and designated as a nuclear bomb shelter! Some of it would be in basement and others on ground floor! Oh no! Did not they know how destructive even a simple MOAB (Mother Of All Bombs), a non-nuclear destructive bomb can really be? Nuclear, Atomic, Hydrogen, Fusion, and EMF are much more destructive. Those on ground floor are done if that was a blast. No one can really survive underground because supplies last 5 years and radiation disperse in a certain hot spot for a long 56 years. Their dream came true to use this facility as a shelter was in 2013 because 150 people were displaced due to a flood.
No wonder a derby team from Longmont used their team name, Bombers. The Boulder County Bombers. It was a moniker.
I am sure they did not want to waste a building, this is perhaps why they built cloaking as a roller rink and other recreational needs while waiting for such a weapon blast that never came (so far so good! Whew). But only they did used as shelter in 2013 flooding.
It was newly opened center in 1952. I have no date when they stopped having the rink. I will get information when I hear from them. The facility is still operational though but no information on roller skating so its a dead segment of that place.
The Interior.
Beautiful modern looking facility. Of course, Maple wood floor. They may have updated the floor as I can see in the modern facility with much renovations. It does look new because they may have updated a lot even the floor. Back then it perhaps was quite different. Technically and originally this facility was designed and designated as a nuclear bomb shelter! The open floor was actually designed to house 100 to 150 cots (main floor). It is quite spacious and has high ceiling that you can see it is Arched-Curved. a D-shape design. Currently, they use roller court/sports court tiles on the floor!
The Exterior.
It has beautiful Modern Red Brick building with 1940s-early 50s architecture design. It is Early Mid-Century Design originally and it had renovated exterior as well as they did with interior. They added that Arch canopy at North side of the building. It is a beautiful complex surrounding beautiful park Very Utopia feeling to this neighborhood. This is one of must see town to visit. I can tell with the beauty there.
The Stats:
Rink Size: N/A Floor: Maple. Floor Layout: Likely straight. Currently basketball-volleyball courts.
Building Size: N/A Built: 1951 Demolished: Still standing, renovated.
Type of Building: Free Span Steel sports arena-like Building originally as a BOMB SHELTER!
Roof: Mixed- mainly Gable with Flat roofs, multi-levels.
Acres: N/A
Operated: 1951 to N/A (still operational for the facility).
Reason for Closure: N/A
Wanted: Information regarding old photographs, Why rink closed? Exact dates of open and closed. And when did they stop having it as a bomb shelter.
Sources: Time Call 1, Times Call 3 (About bomb shelter), Longmont building, City of Longmont,
© 2019-2020 Copyrighted by Dead-Rinks. All Rights Reserved.