Dedicated to Skaters of all ages

This website exclusively focused on skating rinks that are defunct.  To many of us recalled our fun at skating rinks are collected in our mind but the rinks are no more.  Just the same with shopping malls and department stores that are gone, rinks too.  Remember the sounds of music and the beats and the sound of the wheels roared the wooden floors or concrete floors...
In the pages for the list of Dead Rinks in the US and International, not all rinks are listed as we grow slowly daily.  I am averaging 2 to 3 rinks per day being added.  There are thousands of rinks.  If you have pictures, and information about the rinks including the rink size, type of floor, when it was opened, closed, and what was rebooted into.  The before, the after photos, and many other information.  It will be added.  Any mistakes, I apologized and will repair my mistakes with your correct information.  See the rinks you been to but no pictures?  And you have them?  Please by all means send it to me and I will add it!  Thank you!  You will be credited.

This is purely for educational purposes as this is an online museum.  Photographs and articles are appreciated and can be added if you desire to provide.  Contact deadrollerrinks@gmail.com.

Many are already linked and you just have to hover it with your mouse or touch with your finger.  If you are using your phone, click it to see if there is a link.  Any red fonts, there are no information as I have done research some certain rinks.  When you click one of those pages, you will see that there are links on those pages to open another page.  Each name of rink has its own page (except for those in red because of no information).  Enjoy!
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Teenagers account for much of a roller rink's business.
​Some operators joke about being "glorified babysitter and dating bureaus."
      -- Courier Journal,  January 19,1974.

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Dead Rinks is member of National Museum of Roller Skating.  
Fans of Dead-Rinks --

- I just checked out the updates! Great job! And thanks again for what you're doing for the skating industry!  -- Dave Fleming (Northridge Skateland)

- Seeing it on this website warms my heart at least it hasn't been completely lost to time. ;)   -- M.

- Wow what a cool site, and lots of work I might add on your part!  -- S. and M.

- A great website you have there!  ​Keep up the great work. -- A roller skating editor.

- Your website is incredible and what a blast from the past. --C.B.

- [Y]our page on Dazzles (and really the expansiveness of your site in general) was really nice.  Finding your site really made my day though. Thanks for what you do! -- F.M.

- First of all, thanks for preserving the memory of all the venerable old skate barns across the land. There's nothing quite like them around anymore, and I'm glad someone is keeping the flame alive.  -- E.P.

- I appreciate your work on documenting skating rinks because, well, nobody does it and it should be a thing.  -- A skating rink owner.

-  I’m so happy you are preserving this history!  -- April Heywood (related to Leo's Roller Rink in MO.)

-  I miss all these rinks, I’ve skated all over at 100s of rinks so,[...] so much fun browsing your site.  [It] brings back the good old times. -- T.S.

Very interesting project you have!​ -- Panama Red, SO Derby.

I wanted to thank you about the article you wrote on Hajjars.  That was my great grandmother Tillie’s business for 80 years. She is now 101 [as of 23 February 2022] and as sad as it sounds might only have a few days left.  I was looking up her name on google just to read things because she has quite a few articles and videos about her, but yours was a new one!  I loved hearing about my family from someone else’s perspective and just about the building itself. And you’re right it is a very weird shaped building haha we always laughed about it, my sister even got a tattoo of it as dumb as that sounds lol!  Anyways thanks again I’m sure I’m not the only family business you have wrote about so keep doing what you’re doing it touched my heart!   -- J.D.

I love this your website btw!  I'm really grateful for it!  Thank you!  (icons of a skate, disco dancer, heart bleed, 4-clover leaf, and beaming smiley face). -- L.F.
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Thank you everyone!

Note:  There are dozens more but a few are chosen.

As seen on --
January 2021.
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19 May 2022.
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March 1, 2021.
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Menu --
Dead-Rinks in 2022 is now part of International Commercial Archeology Preservation, a group of several websites to be developed similar to Dead-Rinks.  Eventually, they will be created.  More details as we develop this.  Dead-Rinks will always still be adding rinks but its sister's online publications will include Dead-Lanes, which are for bowling lanes that are defunct.  The other is Dead-Mini Courses, that is about defunct miniature golf courses.  And many more.  We are presently seeking for volunteers as we always have.  Below are the two new logos for two new groups.  Information on those former lanes and courses you have are welcomed and will make profile.  

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IMPORTANT NOTICE -
You are welcomed to write to me to add your favorite Dead Rink(s) and you must, if possible, include at least include photos of at least one exterior and at least one of the rink interior when there are no skaters skating at that moment. but if not, please do include with skaters, plus the name of the rink and the history you know it and if any links to the news article online regarding to that rink or rinks closure and even any opening.   Also state where the rink was such as an address so that fans like you can go visit where such rinks stood.  Please email them to deadrollerrinks@gmail.com and I will add your rinks with the subject, rink name IN CAPS!  Also please add CITY AND STATE Then I can spot your email and I will add your rink.  Please reply with the rink in subject with the city and state (and country if you are outside of the US).

By the way, we are already on top on search engines!  And usually found on first page.  Higher than that competitor!  We are considered one of the best thanks to the search engines such as Duck Duck Go, Google, Chrome, Edge, and Opera.
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Thank you!
​Mark
deadrollerrinks@gmail.com

LINKS
Our communities are found at several social media!  Please check out and join us!

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Save the rinks.

Like malls and department stores, the rinks are disappearing too.
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First Let's

Discover
Your Rinks
Rinks you remembered from the old days... Like in Syracuse, New York area, I remembered Sports-O-Rama, Empire Skates East, Empire Skates West, Baldwinsville Bees Skating Rink, the rebooted Empire Skates West, Camillus Roller Rink, Skate-n-Place Roller Rink, Central Square Roller Rink, Radisson Roller Rink, and of course, Floss's Roller Rink in Memphis, NY (original and rebooted in 1990s).  Also Reva Rollerdrome in Auburn, New York.

Now let's WORK

Conserve History of the Rinks
Love history?  Love roller skating?  Missed those rinks where you met the girls and boys... Or checking them out.  And you married some of them.  Or you bought your children to skating.  Or just following the popularity of the fad (1940s-1950s and 1973-1983).  And more.  Or love the sound of Rock-n-Roll of the 1950s.. the Disco craze of the 1970s...

IT'S UP TO US

Keep Our Skates Rolling
Let's have reunions, parties, and chat together about our memories.  But also have skating parties!  Also keep in touch.  And see what the future holds for new rinks.  News.. such as the new rinks in Brooklyn, Long Island, New York.  

Also you can add rinks on that site.  I will then add to Dead-Rinks.  
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