Lost Rockford 5 - The Ing Skating Palace Traditional Cache
Lost Rockford 5 - The Ing Skating Palace
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This is the fifth cache in a series that will educate cachers about
some of the businesses and locales in the Rockford Area that have
been lost to time.
This should be a PNG but bring your own scribbler.
Seekers: Be mindful of the streets around the cache location. There
are many one-way streets in the area.
Before this parking lot was built, a wooden floor roller skating
rink occupied these grounds. Its name was The Ing Skating Palace.
For many years it stood as a popular place for people to go and was
a hangout most weekend nights. To many of the patrons that
frequented the establishment, it was known simply as "The Ing." Of
all of the places I have highlighted in the Lost Rockford Series so
far, this is the only place that I actually had been to myself. I
visited once in 1998 or 1999 when it was still a popular place to
hang out.
The Ing Skating Palace got its start in 1918 and was originally a
dance hall named The Inglaterra. In the period of time between
World War I and World War II, people flocked to the Ing to dance to
the music played by Big Bands led by notable band leaders such as
Lawrence Welk and Jimmy Dorsey. In the 1940's a national roller
skating craze started to emerge which led to the change of focus
from dance which created The Ing Roller Skating Palace. Eventually,
even though roller skating was a year-round-six-day-a-week mainstay
for The Ing, a return to the dance hall roots was undertaken in
later decades of its history.
The Ing Skating Palace was eventually sold and demolished in the
2000's to make way for the parking lot in which you stand to log
this cache.
Congrats to dafuman for FTF!!!
Congrats to brutus6519 for logging find #500 on this
cache!!!
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
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