"Let the Good Times Roll" Traditional Cache
Northstar and Gemini: Archiving as the skating rink has closed and is readied for use for a retail outlet in the future. Sad to loose a community icon. :(
"Let the Good Times Roll"
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Skatelan is a popular recreational facility located in Wheelersburg, Ohio...
Many a church and school group has enjoyed skating at this indoor rink...Theme nights have been held that included everything from ugly pajamas night to Christian Rock night...Kids and adults alike have rolled around the rink to today's popular music...
Complete with strobe lights and a loud sound system, the popularity of this place is known for miles around...
These days, you simply go to the skating center, put wheels on your feet and you're ready for fun...In the "olden days" it wasn't quite so easy...
A Belgian inventor named Joseph Merlin introduced the first patented roller skate in 1760... What an introduction! He wore his new skates to a party in London, where he crashed into a very expensive mirror... He wasn't very interested in skating after this experience... However, other inventors produced roller skate models with in-line wheels to imitate the ice skating blade...
In 1863, James Plimpton, a businessman from Massachusetts invented a roller skate that could turn...It was called a "rocking" skate--the first one that really let people skate curves and turn... Plimpton opened a skating club in New York where gentlemen enjoyed showing off for the ladies by doing fancy figures, steps and turns...
Within 20 years, roller skating had become a popular pastime for men and women... Roller skating contests began to increase... Indoors, wealthy gentlemen in Newport, Rhode Island, played "roller polo," a hockey game... Others held contests in dance and figure skating... Outdoors, men and women were racing in speed contests... The more the public saw of skating, the more they wanted to try it themselves... Roller skating was soon enjoying its first boom...
The Roller Skating Association (RSA) was formed and began promoting skating in 1937... Under the guidance of the RSA, roller skating enjoyed steady growth through the 1940s, 50s and '60s... It became known as a family activity that was good for everyone, an identity that it still has today...
In the 1970s, there was a big improvement in roller skating... Skating floors became easier to care for because of plastic coatings... Plastic skate wheels for smoother, easier, safer skating became the standard... And, the music and lighting at skating centers was modernized... When skaters discovered how easy it was to skate outdoors with the new wheels, another big skating boom was on the way (sneaker skates and skateboards)... By 1977, everyone was suddenly skating to disco music...
Roller skating is easy, inexpensive entertainment, so people of all ages make it a habit to meet friends, make new ones, play games and enjoy the music at their nearest skating center...
Skate rentals and food are available for those that venture inside...Skatelan has a wooden floor which includes a beginners area for those a little unsure on their feet at first...
To find the cache, one needs only to pull into the parking lot and think for a minute...
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