Star Skate World 2075 Occidental Road, Santa Rosa, CA. Beautiful design on the outside. Pebble stones veneer, frames, very 70s Contemporary. You can tell the roller rink was toward the back part of the building because the roofline is higher there than the front half. Source: Calisphere, Sonoma County Library Photograph Collection. A Don Meacham Photography Collection, Don took all those photographs in 1978. Apparently the rink was already opened that year.
Star Skate World 2075 Occidental Road, Santa Rosa, CA. Billiards. They had more than those three. A few more. And never leave those triangle and balls on the floor. Someone did. Source: Calisphere, Sonoma County Library Photograph Collection. A Don Meacham Photography Collection, Don took all those photographs in 1978. Apparently the rink was already opened that year.
Star Skate World 2075 Occidental Road, Santa Rosa, CA. Most of the billiards are shown in this photo. The other photo was three more that are not shown in this one because of the rows of chairs set up for watching billiard tournaments including ESPN (later years). Source: Calisphere, Sonoma County Library Photograph Collection. A Don Meacham Photography Collection, Don took all those photographs in 1978.
Star Skate World 2075 Occidental Road, Santa Rosa, CA. Very organized arcade. A wall row of pinballs and a few coin-operated games on the other wall while foosball tables were shown. Apparently the rink was already opened that year. Source: Calisphere, Sonoma County Library Photograph Collection. A Don Meacham Photography Collection, Don took all those photographs in 1978.
Star Skate World 2075 Occidental Road, Santa Rosa, CA. Beautiful shining roller rink floor, mural, and interior design. Carpeted half-walls and around the rink, murals on those 2 walls. The end or back wall showed very spaced themed with planets and space ship. It has nothing to do with that space opera movie that opened in May 1977. Source: Calisphere, Sonoma County Library Photograph Collection. A Don Meacham Photography Collection, Don took all those photographs in 1978. Apparently the rink was already opened that year.
Star Skate World 2075 Occidental Road, Santa Rosa, CA. Taken in 2018. They added more parking space where it was all grass seen on the left side of photo. Trees have grown big and fast in 43 years. There was a tree on the right side by where the street post is has been cut down. (not seen in original photo). Sidewalk straightened after new added parking space on the left. New colors. Google Map.
Star Skate World 2075 Occidental Road, Santa Rosa, CA
This unique roller rink and billiard hall was at 2075 Occidental Road in Santa Rosa, California. It was Star Skate World. They had two entrances. One for the rink, the other the hall including the arcade.
Currently it is a church. The church I checked out is a New-Age church with no mentioned of Jesus Christ. Uh oh. (My opinion).
This rink was very unique and unusual because of half of the building was used for a rink, the other a billiard hall. Normally I went through, so far, over 4500 rinks to find there is no other rinks with a billiard hall with a separate entrance! I am sure there has to be another one like it. But this was very unusual. I love it! I even love the design both interior and exterior. One of the best design! If it was to be rebooted as a rink, this is the place I would reboot.
According to Realty Trac, they said it was built in 1978 (that was an error), but the rink opened in 1977. and was sold in 2004, so they closed that year or before that. Sold on 01 March 2004. Oh well. I would really enjoy this rink because of everything unique. I love it.
I believe the name Star was just a coincidence because of Star Wars. Hence Star Skate World. My hunch was correct when I got an update. Although it has nothing to do with Star Wars. Just a coincidence.
UPDATE! - 20 September 2022.
I received a very lengthy good attachment in the email that was send to me. Very detailed. So, I copied and paste although if you want to read in PDF format, you can. Click the PDF here. It is a FOUR page long. Here it is --
Hiring
Hiring originally was through a giant “cattle call” in 1977. Word went out to a variety of sources for younger - high school- age prospective workers. I attended Christian Life Center, which was basically a mega church at the time and the announcement of the potential job opportunity notification came through the youth group. Recruiting came almost exclusively through local churches. The interviews took place at a meeting room at one of the local churches. Up to 300 competed for the jobs. The owners, Bill and Theta, conducted the interviews. Bill was big and muscled and had the look of a former boxer. He drove a yellow Ferrari Dino. All kinds of theories/ rumors swirled about Bill and where he got his money and where he came from. The rumors only increased over time and no one ever knew. Theta was small in stature, with short, stylish blonde/grey hair. She dressed as if she had money. She drove a Silver Blue Mercedes 450SL. Bill and Theta were an intimidating couple to say the least, especially for a bunch of high schoolers on their first job interviews.
Pre-opening
July of 1977 construction on the facility was nearing completion. Several of us were offered to start work and assist with general labor jobs on the construction site. The building was a concrete pour slab floor with concert tilt up walls. This building was new construction built specifically for Star Skate World. It was not part of a lager development or built as some other type of facility and retrofitted.
Name
Star Skate World opened September or October of 1977. Star Wars was released May of 1977. Star Skate World played on the outer space theme. Understandably the correlation with Star Wars was huge. However, job interviews had already been conducted by May / June of 1977. I don’t remember whether we knew the prospective name of the roller rink. I seem to think so, as I don’t remember there being this big reveal of the name, but I am not certain. Certainly, the general branding of the project could have been designed to take advantage of the association with Star Wars, but there was nothing overtly Star Wars about the facility.
Training
The manager’s name was Ron. He and his wife had been roller skating champions at one time. Ron and his wife had sessions for all the new hires to learn how to skate or skate better. Much of the emphasis was on how to skate backwards. This skill was necessary as a skate guard so as to watch for oncoming problems. Skating backwards was required of all skate guards while on the floor and became an
exceptionally difficult but valued skill given the sheer volume of people on the skating floor on Friday and Saturday nights. [That is very true at about every single rink the floor guards skate backwards to watch on coming skaters but also to see any has fallen and can skate forward to the fallen skater.]
Uniforms
Dark Blue pants were required. Royal Blue T-shirts of some sort of synthetic material were suppled as were the bright silver vests all the skate guards were required to wear. The vests were designed to resemble some sort of futuristic apparel. The fabric resembled reflective type fabrics but had no reflective properties. It looked as though they were attempting to make it look like the vests were a bright, shiny metal. The vests would Velcro closed on one side under the arm pit. The front and back of the vest consisted of rows of one and a quarter inch wide, horizontal pleats.
Rink Floor
The floor was a suspended [Floating?] [Maple?] wood with a poured blue epoxy floor surface. This was
supposedly a new technique at the time. The smell of the epoxy mixture had a warm, nutty aroma and lingered in the huge facility for weeks. The epoxy was poured from 5-gallon buckets and spread with large squeegee type tools. Several coats were applied.
Mural
The mural took at least a couple weeks to complete. It was an outer space scene. When the blacklights were turned on the comet and other details glowed. This was not a scene from Star Wars and there was no Death Star. The mural was quite simply a fictional outer space scene of planets stars and comets, etc.
The rinks black ceiling really added to the impressive details of the colored mural wall.
Carpet
A Medium Blue colored carpet ran the entire length of the rinks one side and wrapped support columns. The lower walls [Half-Walls] around the rink were a multi colored geometric design. It was very busy design but hid dirt and spills well.
DJ
There was a DJ booth that you could skate up to and request a song. The booth sat at the edge of the rink. The DJ was situated approximately 7 to 8 feet above the floor with two TEAC turntables and the rack of equipment for the house sound system. A lot of thought had gone into the selection of amplifiers, equalizers, and speakers to make the rink’s sound quality exceptional. December of 1977 the movie Saturday Night Fever came out. The soundtrack to this became the unofficial soundtrack for Star Skate World. The unofficial song would have been Queen’s We will Rock You/ We Are the Champions.
Rondell
Rondell was a staple Friday or Saturday nights. She was an exceptional skater with long brown hair and looked like a model. She was also an exhibitionist. There were times the DJs would actually clear the floor and dedicate a song, usually the Commodores Brick House or the Isley Brothers Go For Your Guns, and let Rondell have the floor all to herself. Only afterward could there be a fast or couple’s skate.
Smoking room / Party room
The smoking room shared a wall with the Party room. Both had glass windows facing the rink. The smoking room was filled to capacity during breaks on the floor for cleaning. Scores of smokers crammed shoulder to shoulder in the smoke thick enclosure looking like some sort of zombies.
Arcade
Both the rink side and the billiards side had games. Video games were still in their infancy, pre-Pac Man, so there were a few of those, but they were very basic, like Pong and Gunslinger. There were mostly pin ball and foosball and some other traditional arcade games.
Attendance
Friday and Saturday night each skate session was completely full. There were close to 1000 people on the floor at one time for each session. The floor resembled a solid moving mass with hardly any room between people. It was hot. It was smelly. If you fell, you were going to get run over or run into.
The line to get in wrapped around the building waiting for the next session to start. People would often be turned away at the ticket booth due to sessions being full. At the end of each session the pile of discarded roller skates made a 3 feet high and ten feet across. It would take the entire time between sessions to get the skates partnered and re-racked.
Time Magazine
Reporters from Time came and did an article on the facility. They were saying that Star Skate World was the number one roller rink in the country based on quality/design of the facility and the sheer volume of people who attended. [i attempted to find the article but no success.
Billiards
Bill was a big billiards enthusiast. He built the billiard part to be a higher-class place to go play and watch billiards. Bill did not allow riff raff. If there were problems, Bill would handle them. He was who we called if we had security problems at the roller rink side.
The billiards hall was not accessible from the roller rink side. They had separate exterior entrances and once you left the rink side you could not just come back in. Bill and Theta’s office, as well as the manager’s offices, were situated in between the two facilities. There was a doorway they could access either side of the building, but this could only be use by staff and rarely.
Theater seating.
The chairs in the tiered/ elevated billiard seating room had been repurposed from a local theater. Days were spent dissembling the upholstery, cleaning the metal structure, and then assembling the cushions with new upholstery. Precut fabric for the chair backs and seats were stacked by individual workstations and would be stapled to the wooden back and bottoms of the cushions.
ESPN
ESPN filmed a professional billiard tournament one weekend. The main pro was a guy named Jim Rempy.
The Interior.
The theme interior might surprise to many of you who never went to this rink including myself. Anyone who has them, please let me know and I will be glad to add your photos and not the B/W photos.
The floor was a suspended [Floating?] [Maple?] wood with a poured blue epoxy floor surface. This was
supposedly a new technique at the time. The smell of the epoxy mixture had a warm, nutty aroma and lingered in the huge facility for weeks. The epoxy was poured from 5-gallon buckets and spread with large squeegee type tools. Several coats were applied.
I love the way it looked though. Only the lights surrounded on the edge of the ceiling above the edge of the rink itself. It was pitch black on the rest of the ceiling. Beautiful concept that no rinks today has them. It was different Modernism back then. And the mural in the back which was very rare in 1980 to have that look. It appeared to be space theme but I could not see well in the picture. The floor although looks icy or glassy which they were truly ahead of time. This rink was truly prototype for all rinks today. Mural at a rink, shining ice-like painted Polyurethane coat likely on Maple wood floor. They were ahead of time. Truly advanced.
The Exterior.
The exterior was very neat design. Very 1970s feel. But the rink was opened in 1980 according to a person who posted in Skate Log Forum that he worked there. (To find his post, its on page 7, roll down roughly half way down or pass that).
It had picture frames on the walls, an architecture feature that were more common in 1960s and 1970s. Clearly this was designed in 1970s in mind. Inside the picture frames were all pebbles, another common natural material used in 1960s and 1970s that they cemented those stones on the wall or used glues. Common problem with that back then I noticed many places, it pealed off the walls a lot. Those Pebble Veneer walls were unique idea but seemly it worked well in what I saw the Google photographs. Still that way today.
Thanks to Google Map, I can see in color! It is Sand or Salmon color on the walls and Canopy but I believe they painted different a shade back then.
The Stats:
Rink Size: N/A. Floor: Colored Polyurethane coated Maple. Floor Layout: N/A.
Building Size: 31,526 SF. Built: 1977. Demolished: Still standing.
Type of Building: Free-Span Steel Truss Stucco-Walled Contemporary style School - like Building.
Roof: Hip.
Acres: 3.6500 Acres.
Organ: N/A.
10 Pins Bowling Lanes: None.
Duck Pins Bowling Lanes: None.
Candlestick Bowling Lanes: None.
Pocket Billiard Tables: At least 17 tables. Separate facility in same building as rink although separate entry.
Amusement Rides: None.
Driving Range Slots: None.
Miniature Golf Course: None.
Arcade: 2 Foosball games, 10 Pinballs, 3 Coin-Operated video games (First year). May have changed throughout the years.
Skee-Ball: None..
Fascination: None.
Restaurant: None.
Cocktail lounge: None.
Laser Tag: None.
Bounce Houses: None.
Bumper Cars: None.
Go-Kart: None.
Motel: None.
Swimming Pool: None.
Jungle Gym Playground: None.
Skate Park: None.
Operated: (Overall)-- September or October of 1977 to 2000/2004.
Reason for Closure: N/A.
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:
Realty Trac - real estate record.
Skate Log Forum
Calisphere - collection of photos (more photos are shown there).
Email. Scott S. (20 Sepember 2022).
Date of issue: 31 March 2021.
Updated: 20 September 2022.
For office use only: 6.
© STAR WARS, theme, and Star Destroyer and theme courtesy of Lucasfilm, LTD, a Disney Company.
Worth to visit:
None.
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For abandoned rinks, after you receive permission, do WEAR safety OSHA equipment including a safety glasses, pair of safety gloves, an orange vest or a jacket, and a construction helmet.
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Currently it is a church. The church I checked out is a New-Age church with no mentioned of Jesus Christ. Uh oh. (My opinion).
This rink was very unique and unusual because of half of the building was used for a rink, the other a billiard hall. Normally I went through, so far, over 4500 rinks to find there is no other rinks with a billiard hall with a separate entrance! I am sure there has to be another one like it. But this was very unusual. I love it! I even love the design both interior and exterior. One of the best design! If it was to be rebooted as a rink, this is the place I would reboot.
According to Realty Trac, they said it was built in 1978 (that was an error), but the rink opened in 1977. and was sold in 2004, so they closed that year or before that. Sold on 01 March 2004. Oh well. I would really enjoy this rink because of everything unique. I love it.
I believe the name Star was just a coincidence because of Star Wars. Hence Star Skate World. My hunch was correct when I got an update. Although it has nothing to do with Star Wars. Just a coincidence.
UPDATE! - 20 September 2022.
I received a very lengthy good attachment in the email that was send to me. Very detailed. So, I copied and paste although if you want to read in PDF format, you can. Click the PDF here. It is a FOUR page long. Here it is --
Hiring
Hiring originally was through a giant “cattle call” in 1977. Word went out to a variety of sources for younger - high school- age prospective workers. I attended Christian Life Center, which was basically a mega church at the time and the announcement of the potential job opportunity notification came through the youth group. Recruiting came almost exclusively through local churches. The interviews took place at a meeting room at one of the local churches. Up to 300 competed for the jobs. The owners, Bill and Theta, conducted the interviews. Bill was big and muscled and had the look of a former boxer. He drove a yellow Ferrari Dino. All kinds of theories/ rumors swirled about Bill and where he got his money and where he came from. The rumors only increased over time and no one ever knew. Theta was small in stature, with short, stylish blonde/grey hair. She dressed as if she had money. She drove a Silver Blue Mercedes 450SL. Bill and Theta were an intimidating couple to say the least, especially for a bunch of high schoolers on their first job interviews.
Pre-opening
July of 1977 construction on the facility was nearing completion. Several of us were offered to start work and assist with general labor jobs on the construction site. The building was a concrete pour slab floor with concert tilt up walls. This building was new construction built specifically for Star Skate World. It was not part of a lager development or built as some other type of facility and retrofitted.
Name
Star Skate World opened September or October of 1977. Star Wars was released May of 1977. Star Skate World played on the outer space theme. Understandably the correlation with Star Wars was huge. However, job interviews had already been conducted by May / June of 1977. I don’t remember whether we knew the prospective name of the roller rink. I seem to think so, as I don’t remember there being this big reveal of the name, but I am not certain. Certainly, the general branding of the project could have been designed to take advantage of the association with Star Wars, but there was nothing overtly Star Wars about the facility.
Training
The manager’s name was Ron. He and his wife had been roller skating champions at one time. Ron and his wife had sessions for all the new hires to learn how to skate or skate better. Much of the emphasis was on how to skate backwards. This skill was necessary as a skate guard so as to watch for oncoming problems. Skating backwards was required of all skate guards while on the floor and became an
exceptionally difficult but valued skill given the sheer volume of people on the skating floor on Friday and Saturday nights. [That is very true at about every single rink the floor guards skate backwards to watch on coming skaters but also to see any has fallen and can skate forward to the fallen skater.]
Uniforms
Dark Blue pants were required. Royal Blue T-shirts of some sort of synthetic material were suppled as were the bright silver vests all the skate guards were required to wear. The vests were designed to resemble some sort of futuristic apparel. The fabric resembled reflective type fabrics but had no reflective properties. It looked as though they were attempting to make it look like the vests were a bright, shiny metal. The vests would Velcro closed on one side under the arm pit. The front and back of the vest consisted of rows of one and a quarter inch wide, horizontal pleats.
Rink Floor
The floor was a suspended [Floating?] [Maple?] wood with a poured blue epoxy floor surface. This was
supposedly a new technique at the time. The smell of the epoxy mixture had a warm, nutty aroma and lingered in the huge facility for weeks. The epoxy was poured from 5-gallon buckets and spread with large squeegee type tools. Several coats were applied.
Mural
The mural took at least a couple weeks to complete. It was an outer space scene. When the blacklights were turned on the comet and other details glowed. This was not a scene from Star Wars and there was no Death Star. The mural was quite simply a fictional outer space scene of planets stars and comets, etc.
The rinks black ceiling really added to the impressive details of the colored mural wall.
Carpet
A Medium Blue colored carpet ran the entire length of the rinks one side and wrapped support columns. The lower walls [Half-Walls] around the rink were a multi colored geometric design. It was very busy design but hid dirt and spills well.
DJ
There was a DJ booth that you could skate up to and request a song. The booth sat at the edge of the rink. The DJ was situated approximately 7 to 8 feet above the floor with two TEAC turntables and the rack of equipment for the house sound system. A lot of thought had gone into the selection of amplifiers, equalizers, and speakers to make the rink’s sound quality exceptional. December of 1977 the movie Saturday Night Fever came out. The soundtrack to this became the unofficial soundtrack for Star Skate World. The unofficial song would have been Queen’s We will Rock You/ We Are the Champions.
Rondell
Rondell was a staple Friday or Saturday nights. She was an exceptional skater with long brown hair and looked like a model. She was also an exhibitionist. There were times the DJs would actually clear the floor and dedicate a song, usually the Commodores Brick House or the Isley Brothers Go For Your Guns, and let Rondell have the floor all to herself. Only afterward could there be a fast or couple’s skate.
Smoking room / Party room
The smoking room shared a wall with the Party room. Both had glass windows facing the rink. The smoking room was filled to capacity during breaks on the floor for cleaning. Scores of smokers crammed shoulder to shoulder in the smoke thick enclosure looking like some sort of zombies.
Arcade
Both the rink side and the billiards side had games. Video games were still in their infancy, pre-Pac Man, so there were a few of those, but they were very basic, like Pong and Gunslinger. There were mostly pin ball and foosball and some other traditional arcade games.
Attendance
Friday and Saturday night each skate session was completely full. There were close to 1000 people on the floor at one time for each session. The floor resembled a solid moving mass with hardly any room between people. It was hot. It was smelly. If you fell, you were going to get run over or run into.
The line to get in wrapped around the building waiting for the next session to start. People would often be turned away at the ticket booth due to sessions being full. At the end of each session the pile of discarded roller skates made a 3 feet high and ten feet across. It would take the entire time between sessions to get the skates partnered and re-racked.
Time Magazine
Reporters from Time came and did an article on the facility. They were saying that Star Skate World was the number one roller rink in the country based on quality/design of the facility and the sheer volume of people who attended. [i attempted to find the article but no success.
Billiards
Bill was a big billiards enthusiast. He built the billiard part to be a higher-class place to go play and watch billiards. Bill did not allow riff raff. If there were problems, Bill would handle them. He was who we called if we had security problems at the roller rink side.
The billiards hall was not accessible from the roller rink side. They had separate exterior entrances and once you left the rink side you could not just come back in. Bill and Theta’s office, as well as the manager’s offices, were situated in between the two facilities. There was a doorway they could access either side of the building, but this could only be use by staff and rarely.
Theater seating.
The chairs in the tiered/ elevated billiard seating room had been repurposed from a local theater. Days were spent dissembling the upholstery, cleaning the metal structure, and then assembling the cushions with new upholstery. Precut fabric for the chair backs and seats were stacked by individual workstations and would be stapled to the wooden back and bottoms of the cushions.
ESPN
ESPN filmed a professional billiard tournament one weekend. The main pro was a guy named Jim Rempy.
The Interior.
The theme interior might surprise to many of you who never went to this rink including myself. Anyone who has them, please let me know and I will be glad to add your photos and not the B/W photos.
The floor was a suspended [Floating?] [Maple?] wood with a poured blue epoxy floor surface. This was
supposedly a new technique at the time. The smell of the epoxy mixture had a warm, nutty aroma and lingered in the huge facility for weeks. The epoxy was poured from 5-gallon buckets and spread with large squeegee type tools. Several coats were applied.
I love the way it looked though. Only the lights surrounded on the edge of the ceiling above the edge of the rink itself. It was pitch black on the rest of the ceiling. Beautiful concept that no rinks today has them. It was different Modernism back then. And the mural in the back which was very rare in 1980 to have that look. It appeared to be space theme but I could not see well in the picture. The floor although looks icy or glassy which they were truly ahead of time. This rink was truly prototype for all rinks today. Mural at a rink, shining ice-like painted Polyurethane coat likely on Maple wood floor. They were ahead of time. Truly advanced.
The Exterior.
The exterior was very neat design. Very 1970s feel. But the rink was opened in 1980 according to a person who posted in Skate Log Forum that he worked there. (To find his post, its on page 7, roll down roughly half way down or pass that).
It had picture frames on the walls, an architecture feature that were more common in 1960s and 1970s. Clearly this was designed in 1970s in mind. Inside the picture frames were all pebbles, another common natural material used in 1960s and 1970s that they cemented those stones on the wall or used glues. Common problem with that back then I noticed many places, it pealed off the walls a lot. Those Pebble Veneer walls were unique idea but seemly it worked well in what I saw the Google photographs. Still that way today.
Thanks to Google Map, I can see in color! It is Sand or Salmon color on the walls and Canopy but I believe they painted different a shade back then.
The Stats:
Rink Size: N/A. Floor: Colored Polyurethane coated Maple. Floor Layout: N/A.
Building Size: 31,526 SF. Built: 1977. Demolished: Still standing.
Type of Building: Free-Span Steel Truss Stucco-Walled Contemporary style School - like Building.
Roof: Hip.
Acres: 3.6500 Acres.
Organ: N/A.
10 Pins Bowling Lanes: None.
Duck Pins Bowling Lanes: None.
Candlestick Bowling Lanes: None.
Pocket Billiard Tables: At least 17 tables. Separate facility in same building as rink although separate entry.
Amusement Rides: None.
Driving Range Slots: None.
Miniature Golf Course: None.
Arcade: 2 Foosball games, 10 Pinballs, 3 Coin-Operated video games (First year). May have changed throughout the years.
Skee-Ball: None..
Fascination: None.
Restaurant: None.
Cocktail lounge: None.
Laser Tag: None.
Bounce Houses: None.
Bumper Cars: None.
Go-Kart: None.
Motel: None.
Swimming Pool: None.
Jungle Gym Playground: None.
Skate Park: None.
Operated: (Overall)-- September or October of 1977 to 2000/2004.
Reason for Closure: N/A.
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:
Realty Trac - real estate record.
Skate Log Forum
Calisphere - collection of photos (more photos are shown there).
Email. Scott S. (20 Sepember 2022).
Date of issue: 31 March 2021.
Updated: 20 September 2022.
For office use only: 6.
© STAR WARS, theme, and Star Destroyer and theme courtesy of Lucasfilm, LTD, a Disney Company.
Worth to visit:
None.
DISCLAIMER:
International Roller Skating Rinks History Foundation© (formerly known as Dead-Rinks) and Mark Falso are not responsible for your physical and legal injuries you may have caused. We do not endorse such illegal activities including breaking and entry of former rinks, malls, abandoned buildings, etc. Please always obey laws and regulations and property owner's signs. Some states allow purple paint on fence which means they even have guns on their property and have rights to shoot you. Please DO NOT attempt to enter property without permission!
For abandoned rinks, after you receive permission, do WEAR safety OSHA equipment including a safety glasses, pair of safety gloves, an orange vest or a jacket, and a construction helmet.
Thank you for understanding.
Dead Rinks is now International Roller Skating Rinks History Foundation© because many former names have become new names at the same rinks that are still active and due to much confusion, We have decided that International Roller Skating Rinks History Foundation© fits better for all rinks including defunct, closed, inactive, rebooted, and rinks that are still active today. For short on this site, it is International Roller Skating Rinks History© Bear with us as we change the entire site page by page each day. Thank you for understanding.
Second of all: The contents including words and photos above on this page and/or on any pages are purely educational entertainment purposes only. I provide what information from other websites, skaters, and operators and it may end up with different results between two (or more) sources. It is not our responsible for errors we caused. All sources are shown on each page. All opinions and statements of mine are also stated and are for purely educational entertainment only.
Rinks that are closed are considered dead. Rinks that are/were sold and with new management names new name(s), the former are considered dead. Previous operating rink that closed but came back years later, are considered dead because the reopening is considered rebooted, nothing to do with the former. Since we are rebooted to allow alive rinks, active rinks, we welcome those active rinks as well. It will be described.
As for “For Office Only” is for my reasoning and private legal reason for that.
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