Word: rinks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...basic items of Schaible's wonderful kitchen ("Costs no more than a good six-room house") are a 105-mm. twin-spout faucet, jutting formidably from a revolving turret in the center of the kitchen; and a glistening floor which is at once a swimming pool, ice rink, washing machine, merry-go-round and giant strainer. (Schaible's chief products: faucets and strainers.) Other wonders...
...Mayor, unperturbed, went skating. On an open-air rink in eastern Montreal, cavorting youngsters saw his portly honor. He was swathed in sweaters and wore a ceinture flechée around his waist (see cut), and his outsize nose was empurpled with the cold as he skillfully performed the figures he had learned during idle hours in the New Brunswick internment camp...
Last week the first history of the sport was published: Roller Skating Through the Years by Brooklyn rink-owner Morris Traub (William-Frederick Press, $1). It captured the nostalgic whirl and clatter of skates from the days of Joseph Merlin to those of Western Union...
Plimpton's Passion. Plimpton built a $100,000 rink in New York City and introduced his sport to Newport, where polo on roller skates became a fashion. England also rolled passionately on Plimpton's invention. By 1876, Brighton had six rinks. Members of Parliament skated daily at Prince's Club...
...from Papal Marquis George MacDonald. The price: $1,601,000. Terms: cash. The deal was interesting: when the famed Roney Plaza opened in 1926, J. Myer Schine was strictly nobody. In 1918 he opened his first movie theater modestly in Gloversville, N.Y. It was an old roller-skating rink which he converted with a borrowed $1,500. Last week Schine, now owner of a chain of some 150 theaters in New York, Ohio, Kentucky, Delaware and Maryland, lolled in Miami. When asked what he did up north, he retorted, "I sit and watch snowflakes slide down windowpanes. What else...