There once was a Varsity Roller Rink!
I’m used to seeing old UD Tower yearbooks turn up on ebay-but this little item is probably a lot rarer than anyone could imagine. This Varsity Roller Rink decal had with its posting a date 1941. If it did not have that date, I never would have been able to find out WHEN it was in business. I didn’t have a phone directory for that year (the library had 1938 then a big gap to 1953), so I browsed through the student newspaper, Varsity News, for the time period. I did find a couple of tiny little adds in a couple of issues for September 1940-but that was it.
It must not have been around for very long.
There were a few articles in the student newspaper about holding skating parties, but they were held at another place called Arena Gardens.
Varsity News Feb. 6, 1941
roller skates ca 1940′s
