You gotta love a place that hasn't changed...ever! I started coming to New Spot Roller Rink when I was in elementary school about 25 years ago. It still looks exactly the same as I remember, and suspect it looks pretty much like it did when it opened in 1947. The battered wood panel walls are lined with LP covers from the 70's and early 80's featuring former jukebox choices as Kenny Rogers, The Temptations and Barbara Streisand. The benches are the same, the hand-painted signs are still there, and come to think of it, those roller skates look familiar, too! The people are friendly, the prices are awesome, but best of all is the old-school feel of stepping back into your childhood. The rink is located on US 60 in Salt Lick.
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this is truly the Salt Lick Roller Rink's "new"spot.Sometime in the early 70's the Salt Lick Rink moved from beautiful Downtown Salt Lick to beyond the train overpass (the reason little SL had a by-pass,for tall trucks on Hwy 60),down 60E towards Midland.I can remember going to the "old spot" a time or two,with my cousin from Moore's Ferry...couldn't have been older than 10 (born in 60).
RaZoR
this is truly the Salt Lick Roller Rink's "new"spot.Sometime in the early 70's the Salt Lick Rink moved from beautiful Downtown Salt Lick to beyond the train overpass (the reason little SL had a by-pass,for tall trucks on Hwy 60),down 60E towards Midland.I can remember going to the "old spot" a time or two,with my cousin from Moore's Ferry...couldn't have been older than 10 (born in 60).
RaZoR
Is the old building still there?
last time I checked it was...probably 10 years or more ago.After you turn off 60 to go down the Main Drag where the old Salt Lick Bank was,you turned right onto a little street beside the bank,there on the left, a concrete block bldg. painted white with a "rolled gable" roof (meaning the roof was rounded at top instead of pointed like a regular pitched gable).No windows or they were covered and painted white...just a single door with a sign over the door saying "Salt Lick Skating Rink"...or something simple.
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