Photo courtesy of CBRE. Real thick bushes covering pretty much of this former industrial building that was turned into skating rink. You can tell it was a small manufacturing company.
Courtesy of Google Map. Taken in July 2011. Few years later, all the bushes gone but grass really growing tall. For sale sign is gone too along with the bushes. Sold? Perhaps but looks still vacant that year.
Courtesy of Google Map. May 2019. Now a bakery. Long gone 1950ish tall section. Got rid of Hospital Surgery Room Green and turned into nicer looking bakery (large volume bakery). My, sure this place looked so busy with workers and shoppers.
Both photos courtesy of My Record Journal. A long time friends skated together for first time in long time. The walls were White with Green and Purple stripes and Green half-walls. All made of Cinderblocks. This was Forest Green. I love that color.
The Wheel World 334 North Cherry Street Extension, Wallingford, CT
Wheel World Skating Rink 334 North Cherry Street Extension, Wallingford, CT
Wheel World Skating Rink 334 North Cherry Street Extension, Wallingford, CT
Kathy McNulty started The Wheel World at 334 North Cherry Street Extension, Wallingford, Connecticut. This rink had its run between 1995 to 2008. The same owner who owned Roller Haven II and was a skating instructor at Roller Haven.
The interior design is quite similar to the Roller Haven II with the stripes. Please do compare here and there.
They had organ music playing.
The Interior.
The stripes are quite similar to Roller Haven II. Apparently Kathy likes this style. it does give a high school gym look (Yes, I have seen several HS gyms with that look) and the colors were Forest Green and Purple on White walls.
Even the half-walls are in Forest Green. Their lights were colorful tubes.
The Exterior.
The exterior was quite clearly a former factory converted to a rink. They did not do much on the outside work but I am sure had a sign on the tall wall section but no photographs I could find has that as a proof. I would love to see that.
But that green was horrible green. Looks like a hospital surgery room inside out. It was in Hospital Surgery Room Green color with nice Red-Brick bricks for the office section of the old factory, I am sure that was where the rink office and admission was. I could not find any real estate information for the rink though. Except for the photo.
The Stats:
Rink Size: N/A. Floor: Navy Gray Concrete. Floor Layout: Standard.
Building Size: N/A. Built: N/A. Demolished: Still standing. Renovated into large volume bakery.
Type of Building: 2 columns on rink -Span Steel Truss Steel-Walled industrial - like with Red-Bricks brick office Building.
Roof: Multi-level Flat.
Acres: N/A.
Operated: 1995 to 2008.
Reason for Closure: N/A.
Wanted: Information regarding actual dates of open/closed, why closed, size of rink, rink materials. Also photos.
Anyone has pictures and/or information please let me know at [email protected]. Thank you.
Sources: Yelp - Wheel World; My Record Journal - 3 rinks in town;
© Copyrighted by Dead-Rinks. All Rights Reserved. Jn 3:16.
The interior design is quite similar to the Roller Haven II with the stripes. Please do compare here and there.
They had organ music playing.
The Interior.
The stripes are quite similar to Roller Haven II. Apparently Kathy likes this style. it does give a high school gym look (Yes, I have seen several HS gyms with that look) and the colors were Forest Green and Purple on White walls.
Even the half-walls are in Forest Green. Their lights were colorful tubes.
The Exterior.
The exterior was quite clearly a former factory converted to a rink. They did not do much on the outside work but I am sure had a sign on the tall wall section but no photographs I could find has that as a proof. I would love to see that.
But that green was horrible green. Looks like a hospital surgery room inside out. It was in Hospital Surgery Room Green color with nice Red-Brick bricks for the office section of the old factory, I am sure that was where the rink office and admission was. I could not find any real estate information for the rink though. Except for the photo.
The Stats:
Rink Size: N/A. Floor: Navy Gray Concrete. Floor Layout: Standard.
Building Size: N/A. Built: N/A. Demolished: Still standing. Renovated into large volume bakery.
Type of Building: 2 columns on rink -Span Steel Truss Steel-Walled industrial - like with Red-Bricks brick office Building.
Roof: Multi-level Flat.
Acres: N/A.
Operated: 1995 to 2008.
Reason for Closure: N/A.
Wanted: Information regarding actual dates of open/closed, why closed, size of rink, rink materials. Also photos.
Anyone has pictures and/or information please let me know at [email protected]. Thank you.
Sources: Yelp - Wheel World; My Record Journal - 3 rinks in town;
© Copyrighted by Dead-Rinks. All Rights Reserved. Jn 3:16.