Wagon Wheel Roller Skating 305 Van Horn Ave, Mills, WY. Segmental Roof with Slant Salt-Box sides. Look like an Omega symbol Ω Taken in 2007. Source: Google.
Wagon Wheel Roller Skating 305 Van Horn Ave, Mills, WY. Segmental Roof with Slant Salt-Box sides. Look like an Omega symbol Ω Taken in 2011. Source: Google.
Wagon Wheel Roller Skating 305 Van Horn Ave, Mills, WY. A nice photo of the entire front. Segmental Roof with Slant Salt-Box sides. Look like an Omega symbol Ω Source: Google.
Wagon Wheel Roller Skating 305 Van Horn Ave, Mills, WY. Facebook page showing with the lights on, already dark out, wintertime. Aww, nice picture should have been a Hallmark card. A father kneel down for his child perhaps giving the child money to go skating that night. A real moment to remember. That is why I said Hallmark card! This is my favorite photo of all photos on this site. Source: Wagon Wheel Roller Skating.
Wagon Wheel Roller Skating 305 Van Horn Ave, Mills, WY. The old floor is shown below above as the darker photo showed newly painted and polyurethane coated floor with Bold Blue. I admit I love this color! You can tell how shining the floor is! And see the lighter photo has worn out outlines on the rink. Source: Wagon Wheel Roller Skating.
Wagon Wheel Roller Skating 305 Van Horn Ave, Mills, WY. Noticed the differences? The old floor is shown below above as the darker photo showed newly painted and polyurethane coated floor with Bold Blue. You can tell how shining the floor is! And see the lighter photo has worn out outlines on the rink. Source: WWRS.
Wagon Wheel Roller Skating 305 Van Horn Ave, Mills, WY. With the old paint on the floor, it does look tiring and old in that section. I do not see any photos of the after it was painted. Source: WWRS.
Wagon Wheel Roller Skating 305 Van Horn Ave, Mills, WY
Interesting name. This rink is still operational however, it is up for sale so it is an honorable to be listed here the same for any rinks that are up for sale and possible closure after that. Unfortunately in this century and age, many rinks are sold and stripped into something else like storage facility, fitness, churches and any other venues businesses needed a free-span building for. Mainly those three are most popular venues are replacing rinks and a ballroom for events like wedding events, bingo, etc.
Disclaimer:
Having said it is still operational even after two years on this site, Dead-Rinks, I do list rinks that are for sale because rink operators, skaters, and rink businesses can see Dead-Rinks and get in touch with the operator(s) of such rinks as Wagon Wheel to purchase and move to Active Rink page. Wagon Wheel IS also on Active Rink page because they are still operational. a story on a website recently (on 16th and 18th of January 2022) mentioned Dead-Rinks and they are trying to tell everyone they are still active. So, I added this rink to Active page. Some of those rinks on that page are back in business after a closure such as one was closed for 20 years in Georgia and they are back in business! We regret for any inconveniences we may have caused. Thank you for understanding!
Now back to regular profile:
Wagon Wheel gave you the idea that it was the chuck wagon at least to my perspective on what the name is but I have no idea why they choose that name although Wyoming is a western state where many people relocated to the West in the 19th Century.
Yes, there is a logo on the building with the old wooden spikes wheel on an Segmental Arch roof at this unique building that was built in 1955. Clearly it was built for the rink and likely the rink was there since that year. It is 65 years old rink that last quite long. Very few rinks last this long time.
That brings me a question, was there a different rink owner and name before? If not, congratulations they lasted this long under this name banner. That is right, it was the one and the same for more than 60 years. Well, at least this is an article even explained on the rink website. It is already 73 years. That is because they had the rink established in 1948 because they had their 60th anniversary event at the rink December 2008. I wish they do not sell the rink so they can reach 75 years anniversary. That is an important milestone for anybody and any business. I wish I can buy it to save this rink with the same name to keep it alive so they can celebrate 75 years.
The rink back then not just only was opened for skating but had wrestling, auctions, and events that they considered this rink truly first convention center for the town. But in 1955, they had a fire. It completely burned down and what was interesting that the fact the Casper, WY teenagers came the next day to start clean up and clear out the rumble and ashes of the first rink and that motivated the owners to rebuilt quickly and reopened the rink that you seen in the photos above. That rink has been in operations since 1955. The real 65th anniversary (of the building) this year in 2020. The help of the teens to clean up, like a Phoenix rises from ashes, they rebuilt in THREE days!
The artist painted murals in that year, 1955 (which was rare) did the entire project in two weeks. It took me a week to do ONE wall at Sports-O-Rama in Mattydale, NY so I know how it was. That was a fast job he did.
They had concrete floor at the reopening. About 800 skaters on any night in the 50s. They had big names come in for concerts at the rink including Grammy Awards Country Singer Marty Robbins.
They had a mascot they would dress up as "Rink Rat" They were considered the original before everyone named something like Mall Rats, Rug Rats, and more according to them.
In the light of the rink up for sale, the history could be lost on their website, here is the article that was written by Casper Star Tribune writer, Margaret Matray:
To call the Wagon Wheel merely a skating rink would be an understatement.
It’s the place where crowds would cluster together for livestock auctions, listening to then-owner Walter “Shorty” Vanhorn speak a mile a minute.
It’s the place that hosted both beauty pageants and wrestling matches, where divas of different kinds battled for all the bragging rights.
It’s the place where square dancers paired up and galloped across the floor. The place where their children and grandchildren would learn the Twist, Chicken Dance and Macarena decades later.
It’s where disco lived out its days.
Where bumbling teenagers met and fell in love.
The Wagon Wheel, a social hub in Casper for decades, celebrates its 60th anniversary this weekend, December 13-14, 2008. As the Wagon Wheel community gathers to reminisce, dance and skate at weekend events, posters filled with photos, autographs, tickets and articles will line the walls – skaters of bygone eras beaming back at the newest generation of rink-goers.
The good ol’ days
In the earlier years, everything about the Wagon Wheel happened in a hurry.
Walter and May Vanhorn built the original skating rink in the late 1940s, next to a metal building that the Vanhorn’s like to consider Casper’s first events center. As soon as it opened, people came out in droves to see live auctions, wrestling matches and big name country artists who rolled into town.
During the day, Casper residents came out to skate. At night, Walter and May sprinkled soap flakes on the floor to add some treading, and people square danced into the morning hours.
In the 1950s, a fire burned the buildings to the ground. This would seem like a natural place for it all to end. It had lived several good years and went out in a large flame. But that’s not what Casper wanted.
The day after the fire, dozens of Casper teens showed up and helped clear the rubble. They wanted a rink.
“You’d be surprised at what kids did back then,” said Dorothy Vanhorn, Walter and May’s daughter-in-law. Dorothy and her husband, Fred, managed the rink starting in the 1970s.
Just as before, everything moved in a flash. Fred Vanhorn swears it happened in three days – the charred remains cleared away and the basic structure of the new rink built-in their place.
“We had the best construction workers around,” he said.
The artist they hired to paint several large canvases around the rink completed one painting every day – finishing his entire project in less than two weeks, Fred said.
The new Wagon Wheel rink, the one that’s still standing today, opened in 1955. As Fred and Dorothy remember it, people began lining up right away. On a given night, they’d see 800 people whir around on the new concrete rink, their coats stacked in heaps along the outside wall.
The Vanhorn’s continued to bring in big bands and top musicians: Grammy Award-winning country singer Marty Robbins played to a packed house and then stayed after to play as the Vanhorn’s cleaned up. Little Jimmy Dickens, the 4-foot-11-inch country singer with the rhinestone-studded outfit, took Dorothy’s broom and swept the floors.
Then, the Vanhorn’s could book a band for $300 to $500.
Those were the days.
Through the decades
Current owner Beverly Vanhorn and her cousin Laura Britton grew up with the rink.
As kids, they’d crawl under the piles of coats pouring over the rink benches and take a nap after a long day. As soon as they were tall enough to see over the booth, their Grandma had them selling tickets.
Britton dressed up as the original “Rink Rat,” a large, grey and pink rat mascot of the Roller Skating Association. She met her husband at the Wagon Wheel.
“It was a big part of our lives,” Britton said.
For years the rink was a hangout for Casper teens who had nowhere else to go. And what went on their mirrored the trends of each decade.
In the 1960s, when Girl Scouting hit a wave of popularity, troops came out by the dozens to earn skating badges for their uniforms. Beverly Geise, a frequent rink-goer and friend of the Vanhorn’s, said she must have taught skating lessons to 200 Girl Scouts one year back then.
In 1977, when “Saturday Night Fever” hit theaters, teens with bell-bottoms and big hair tried to spin and turn, just like John Travolta, under the Wagon Wheel’s disco balls.
In the 1980s, the rink offered jazz workout classes where about 100 ladies would spread mats on the concrete and learn aerobics routines. When skateboarding became popular in the 90s, the Vanhorn’s put in a course complete with quarter pipes.
With ice rinks and community centers now in Casper, Beverly Vanhorn said the Wagon Wheel is not quite the social hub it once was. Schools used to bring kids by on field trips, but that happens less and less now, she said.
Someone once told Beverly that kids today have outgrown roller skating, that kids are too sophisticated now. But the Vanhorn’s don’t believe that. Roller skating is for everyone: from adults down to children old enough to strap skates to their feet, said Dorothy.
The Vanhorn’s see a new wave of popularity coming. With an increased national focus on childhood obesity, the Vanhorn’s hope more will realize the health benefits of skating. Often, the Vanhorn’s don’t even have to turn the heat on in the building – the kids whooshing around the rink work up a good sweat.
Maybe, just maybe, Beverly said, skating is becoming popular, sophisticated once again.
Skate party held during our anniversary was a huge success.
What: Wagon Wheel Roller Skating celebrates “60 Years of Memories.”
When: Skate all day Saturday, December 13, 2008 from noon to 11 p.m. Dance Sunday, December 14, 2008 5 to 10 p.m., with music by the Dakota Country Band. Doors open at 3 p.m. Sunday for reminiscing – no skating that day.
Where: Wagon Wheel Roller Skating, 305 Van Horn Ave. in Mills.
Admission: Free if you fill out a “memory ticket.” $3 with own skates, $5 with rental.
skate-boot-2: The Wagon Wheel has hosted generations of Casper Area activities, social and competitive events. It has been exciting and a privilege to entertain and share our sport with local schools, parents sponsored events, churches, day-cares, scouts, businesses and charities. We appreciate the support that you have shown our facility through your patronage.
The Wagon Wheel was first built-in 1946 by Walter and May Vanhorn as an auction, dance hall and skating facility. It burned down and was rebuilt in 1955 featuring entertainers such as Hank Thompson, Marty Robins, Brenda Lee and many more. Roller skating club and lessons were given by daughter-in-law Dorothy Vanhorn. Dorothy’s Daughter Beverly Vanhorn-Dice began coaching from skating at the Olympic Training Center. The club produced many good skaters, granddaughter Becky Dice was repeat Regional Champion in each of her age divisions and National finalist in Freestyle figure skating and placed in short track speed skating. Fred and Dorothy Vanhorn operated the Wagon Wheel through the exciting Disco years. Beverly Vanhorn has been manager and operator since 1995.
Bev Started her education at Mills School then East Jr. High, Natrona County (1966) and Casper College (1968). Daughter Becky Dice-Wheeler, also born and raised in Casper, went to McKinley and Oregon Trail elementary, CY Jr. High and graduated Natrona County High School 1991). Father Fred Vanhorn graduated Natrona County High School (19939) and mother Dorothy Phelps graduated Natrona County High School (1942).
The interior had originally Sky Blue and the new Blue looked slightly Darker Blue but Bolder Light Blue. They painted entire facility floor including rink, snack bar area, games, and more. They have unique design on open windows between the rink and snack bar area. Arched openings. It looked more Spanish with that look yet, not Tan or Rawhide Tan color. I think that was the old color they had and painted Dark Purple border around the rink, Blue half wall, and White full walls. Blue is the trendy color now (1995 to ?).
Their lights really illuminate very Asian appearance. It is getting common with tubular lightnings everywhere as it is LED now. It is very Bluey-Blue light scene on the rink. Pretty. Glad its not Black lights which hurts my blind eye.
Update!
Beverley Van Horn-Lunt and her husband Larry have run the rink since 1996. Before that, it was run by her parents Fred and Dorthy Van Horn.
Lunt’s grandfather Walter Van Horn bought the property from the Pepper Tank Refinery and built the rink in the former auction barn in 1948. A fire claimed the building in 1955, and it was rebuilt with the cinderblock, cement, and steel structure that stands today.
UPDATE!
Dead-Rinks was mentioned on this article related to this rink!
Check this link out: Oil City News.
Original:
Rink Size: N/A Floor: Concrete Floor Layout: N/A
Building Size: N/A Built: Originally built in 1948 Demolished: Destroyed by fire in 1955. Rebuilt in 3 days.
Type of Building: N/A
Roof: N/A
Acres: 2.09 Acres.
Newer version:
Rink Size: N/A Floor: Concrete, polyurethane coated, Bold Blue paint coat
Floor Layout: Standard
Building Size: 20,748 SF Built: 1955 Demolished: Still standing
Type of Building: Free Span Steel Segmental Arch roof cinderblock Building.
Roof: Segmental, Asphalt/Fiberglass. Almost as if it is Omega, Ω
Acres: 2.09
Operated: 1949 TO 1955, 1955 to present.
Original: 1949 to 1955
Reopened after fire: 1955 to 2020/up for sale.
UPDATE: STILL OPERATIONAL!
Reason for Closure: Original due to fire but they rebuilt and operating still. Were going to sell and close in 2020 but they are back stronger and better!
Wanted: Information regarding original photos Any photos of 1949 version rink? How did the fire started? Email me at [email protected]. Thank you.
Sources:
Wagon Wheels Roller Skating website.
Casper Star Tribune (read above).
Rocky Mountains Real Estate.
ReMax (for ReMax, you cant see all pics because they will make you sign in with FB or email which I think it is stupid); K2 Radio - Things kids did in the 1990s
Oil City News - The rink was in the news on 18 January 2021.
OIl City News - About the rink on 16 January 2021.
Date of Issue: Early 2020. Updated: 27 January 2022.
For Office Only: 6.
© Dead Rinks. All Rights Reserved. Jn 3:3-17.
Disclaimer:
Having said it is still operational even after two years on this site, Dead-Rinks, I do list rinks that are for sale because rink operators, skaters, and rink businesses can see Dead-Rinks and get in touch with the operator(s) of such rinks as Wagon Wheel to purchase and move to Active Rink page. Wagon Wheel IS also on Active Rink page because they are still operational. a story on a website recently (on 16th and 18th of January 2022) mentioned Dead-Rinks and they are trying to tell everyone they are still active. So, I added this rink to Active page. Some of those rinks on that page are back in business after a closure such as one was closed for 20 years in Georgia and they are back in business! We regret for any inconveniences we may have caused. Thank you for understanding!
Now back to regular profile:
Wagon Wheel gave you the idea that it was the chuck wagon at least to my perspective on what the name is but I have no idea why they choose that name although Wyoming is a western state where many people relocated to the West in the 19th Century.
Yes, there is a logo on the building with the old wooden spikes wheel on an Segmental Arch roof at this unique building that was built in 1955. Clearly it was built for the rink and likely the rink was there since that year. It is 65 years old rink that last quite long. Very few rinks last this long time.
That brings me a question, was there a different rink owner and name before? If not, congratulations they lasted this long under this name banner. That is right, it was the one and the same for more than 60 years. Well, at least this is an article even explained on the rink website. It is already 73 years. That is because they had the rink established in 1948 because they had their 60th anniversary event at the rink December 2008. I wish they do not sell the rink so they can reach 75 years anniversary. That is an important milestone for anybody and any business. I wish I can buy it to save this rink with the same name to keep it alive so they can celebrate 75 years.
The rink back then not just only was opened for skating but had wrestling, auctions, and events that they considered this rink truly first convention center for the town. But in 1955, they had a fire. It completely burned down and what was interesting that the fact the Casper, WY teenagers came the next day to start clean up and clear out the rumble and ashes of the first rink and that motivated the owners to rebuilt quickly and reopened the rink that you seen in the photos above. That rink has been in operations since 1955. The real 65th anniversary (of the building) this year in 2020. The help of the teens to clean up, like a Phoenix rises from ashes, they rebuilt in THREE days!
The artist painted murals in that year, 1955 (which was rare) did the entire project in two weeks. It took me a week to do ONE wall at Sports-O-Rama in Mattydale, NY so I know how it was. That was a fast job he did.
They had concrete floor at the reopening. About 800 skaters on any night in the 50s. They had big names come in for concerts at the rink including Grammy Awards Country Singer Marty Robbins.
They had a mascot they would dress up as "Rink Rat" They were considered the original before everyone named something like Mall Rats, Rug Rats, and more according to them.
In the light of the rink up for sale, the history could be lost on their website, here is the article that was written by Casper Star Tribune writer, Margaret Matray:
To call the Wagon Wheel merely a skating rink would be an understatement.
It’s the place where crowds would cluster together for livestock auctions, listening to then-owner Walter “Shorty” Vanhorn speak a mile a minute.
It’s the place that hosted both beauty pageants and wrestling matches, where divas of different kinds battled for all the bragging rights.
It’s the place where square dancers paired up and galloped across the floor. The place where their children and grandchildren would learn the Twist, Chicken Dance and Macarena decades later.
It’s where disco lived out its days.
Where bumbling teenagers met and fell in love.
The Wagon Wheel, a social hub in Casper for decades, celebrates its 60th anniversary this weekend, December 13-14, 2008. As the Wagon Wheel community gathers to reminisce, dance and skate at weekend events, posters filled with photos, autographs, tickets and articles will line the walls – skaters of bygone eras beaming back at the newest generation of rink-goers.
The good ol’ days
In the earlier years, everything about the Wagon Wheel happened in a hurry.
Walter and May Vanhorn built the original skating rink in the late 1940s, next to a metal building that the Vanhorn’s like to consider Casper’s first events center. As soon as it opened, people came out in droves to see live auctions, wrestling matches and big name country artists who rolled into town.
During the day, Casper residents came out to skate. At night, Walter and May sprinkled soap flakes on the floor to add some treading, and people square danced into the morning hours.
In the 1950s, a fire burned the buildings to the ground. This would seem like a natural place for it all to end. It had lived several good years and went out in a large flame. But that’s not what Casper wanted.
The day after the fire, dozens of Casper teens showed up and helped clear the rubble. They wanted a rink.
“You’d be surprised at what kids did back then,” said Dorothy Vanhorn, Walter and May’s daughter-in-law. Dorothy and her husband, Fred, managed the rink starting in the 1970s.
Just as before, everything moved in a flash. Fred Vanhorn swears it happened in three days – the charred remains cleared away and the basic structure of the new rink built-in their place.
“We had the best construction workers around,” he said.
The artist they hired to paint several large canvases around the rink completed one painting every day – finishing his entire project in less than two weeks, Fred said.
The new Wagon Wheel rink, the one that’s still standing today, opened in 1955. As Fred and Dorothy remember it, people began lining up right away. On a given night, they’d see 800 people whir around on the new concrete rink, their coats stacked in heaps along the outside wall.
The Vanhorn’s continued to bring in big bands and top musicians: Grammy Award-winning country singer Marty Robbins played to a packed house and then stayed after to play as the Vanhorn’s cleaned up. Little Jimmy Dickens, the 4-foot-11-inch country singer with the rhinestone-studded outfit, took Dorothy’s broom and swept the floors.
Then, the Vanhorn’s could book a band for $300 to $500.
Those were the days.
Through the decades
Current owner Beverly Vanhorn and her cousin Laura Britton grew up with the rink.
As kids, they’d crawl under the piles of coats pouring over the rink benches and take a nap after a long day. As soon as they were tall enough to see over the booth, their Grandma had them selling tickets.
Britton dressed up as the original “Rink Rat,” a large, grey and pink rat mascot of the Roller Skating Association. She met her husband at the Wagon Wheel.
“It was a big part of our lives,” Britton said.
For years the rink was a hangout for Casper teens who had nowhere else to go. And what went on their mirrored the trends of each decade.
In the 1960s, when Girl Scouting hit a wave of popularity, troops came out by the dozens to earn skating badges for their uniforms. Beverly Geise, a frequent rink-goer and friend of the Vanhorn’s, said she must have taught skating lessons to 200 Girl Scouts one year back then.
In 1977, when “Saturday Night Fever” hit theaters, teens with bell-bottoms and big hair tried to spin and turn, just like John Travolta, under the Wagon Wheel’s disco balls.
In the 1980s, the rink offered jazz workout classes where about 100 ladies would spread mats on the concrete and learn aerobics routines. When skateboarding became popular in the 90s, the Vanhorn’s put in a course complete with quarter pipes.
With ice rinks and community centers now in Casper, Beverly Vanhorn said the Wagon Wheel is not quite the social hub it once was. Schools used to bring kids by on field trips, but that happens less and less now, she said.
Someone once told Beverly that kids today have outgrown roller skating, that kids are too sophisticated now. But the Vanhorn’s don’t believe that. Roller skating is for everyone: from adults down to children old enough to strap skates to their feet, said Dorothy.
The Vanhorn’s see a new wave of popularity coming. With an increased national focus on childhood obesity, the Vanhorn’s hope more will realize the health benefits of skating. Often, the Vanhorn’s don’t even have to turn the heat on in the building – the kids whooshing around the rink work up a good sweat.
Maybe, just maybe, Beverly said, skating is becoming popular, sophisticated once again.
Skate party held during our anniversary was a huge success.
What: Wagon Wheel Roller Skating celebrates “60 Years of Memories.”
When: Skate all day Saturday, December 13, 2008 from noon to 11 p.m. Dance Sunday, December 14, 2008 5 to 10 p.m., with music by the Dakota Country Band. Doors open at 3 p.m. Sunday for reminiscing – no skating that day.
Where: Wagon Wheel Roller Skating, 305 Van Horn Ave. in Mills.
Admission: Free if you fill out a “memory ticket.” $3 with own skates, $5 with rental.
skate-boot-2: The Wagon Wheel has hosted generations of Casper Area activities, social and competitive events. It has been exciting and a privilege to entertain and share our sport with local schools, parents sponsored events, churches, day-cares, scouts, businesses and charities. We appreciate the support that you have shown our facility through your patronage.
The Wagon Wheel was first built-in 1946 by Walter and May Vanhorn as an auction, dance hall and skating facility. It burned down and was rebuilt in 1955 featuring entertainers such as Hank Thompson, Marty Robins, Brenda Lee and many more. Roller skating club and lessons were given by daughter-in-law Dorothy Vanhorn. Dorothy’s Daughter Beverly Vanhorn-Dice began coaching from skating at the Olympic Training Center. The club produced many good skaters, granddaughter Becky Dice was repeat Regional Champion in each of her age divisions and National finalist in Freestyle figure skating and placed in short track speed skating. Fred and Dorothy Vanhorn operated the Wagon Wheel through the exciting Disco years. Beverly Vanhorn has been manager and operator since 1995.
Bev Started her education at Mills School then East Jr. High, Natrona County (1966) and Casper College (1968). Daughter Becky Dice-Wheeler, also born and raised in Casper, went to McKinley and Oregon Trail elementary, CY Jr. High and graduated Natrona County High School 1991). Father Fred Vanhorn graduated Natrona County High School (19939) and mother Dorothy Phelps graduated Natrona County High School (1942).
The interior had originally Sky Blue and the new Blue looked slightly Darker Blue but Bolder Light Blue. They painted entire facility floor including rink, snack bar area, games, and more. They have unique design on open windows between the rink and snack bar area. Arched openings. It looked more Spanish with that look yet, not Tan or Rawhide Tan color. I think that was the old color they had and painted Dark Purple border around the rink, Blue half wall, and White full walls. Blue is the trendy color now (1995 to ?).
Their lights really illuminate very Asian appearance. It is getting common with tubular lightnings everywhere as it is LED now. It is very Bluey-Blue light scene on the rink. Pretty. Glad its not Black lights which hurts my blind eye.
Update!
Beverley Van Horn-Lunt and her husband Larry have run the rink since 1996. Before that, it was run by her parents Fred and Dorthy Van Horn.
Lunt’s grandfather Walter Van Horn bought the property from the Pepper Tank Refinery and built the rink in the former auction barn in 1948. A fire claimed the building in 1955, and it was rebuilt with the cinderblock, cement, and steel structure that stands today.
UPDATE!
Dead-Rinks was mentioned on this article related to this rink!
Check this link out: Oil City News.
Original:
Rink Size: N/A Floor: Concrete Floor Layout: N/A
Building Size: N/A Built: Originally built in 1948 Demolished: Destroyed by fire in 1955. Rebuilt in 3 days.
Type of Building: N/A
Roof: N/A
Acres: 2.09 Acres.
Newer version:
Rink Size: N/A Floor: Concrete, polyurethane coated, Bold Blue paint coat
Floor Layout: Standard
Building Size: 20,748 SF Built: 1955 Demolished: Still standing
Type of Building: Free Span Steel Segmental Arch roof cinderblock Building.
Roof: Segmental, Asphalt/Fiberglass. Almost as if it is Omega, Ω
Acres: 2.09
Operated: 1949 TO 1955, 1955 to present.
Original: 1949 to 1955
Reopened after fire: 1955 to 2020/up for sale.
UPDATE: STILL OPERATIONAL!
Reason for Closure: Original due to fire but they rebuilt and operating still. Were going to sell and close in 2020 but they are back stronger and better!
Wanted: Information regarding original photos Any photos of 1949 version rink? How did the fire started? Email me at [email protected]. Thank you.
Sources:
Wagon Wheels Roller Skating website.
Casper Star Tribune (read above).
Rocky Mountains Real Estate.
ReMax (for ReMax, you cant see all pics because they will make you sign in with FB or email which I think it is stupid); K2 Radio - Things kids did in the 1990s
Oil City News - The rink was in the news on 18 January 2021.
OIl City News - About the rink on 16 January 2021.
Date of Issue: Early 2020. Updated: 27 January 2022.
For Office Only: 6.
© Dead Rinks. All Rights Reserved. Jn 3:3-17.