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Jackson Haines Central Park, Winter – The Skating Pond, 1862 lithograph by Currier and Ives. The first instructional book concerning ice skating was published in London in 1772. The book titled The Art of Figure Skating, written by a British artillery lieutenant, Robert Jones, describes basic figure skating forms such as circles and figure ...
The largest public ice rink in the world, the Sportpalast in Berlin, opened in the 1910s. The rink had an area of 2,400 m 2 (25,800 ft 2), with dimensions of 60 m by 40 m (197 ft by 131 ft). The new rink increased both the public interest in figure skating as well as the number of people who practiced the sport.
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Figure skating venues (6 C, 6 P) I. Ice hockey venues (9 C, 12 P) ... Pages in category "Ice rinks" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total.
The Atlanta Figure Skating Club (AFSC) was founded in 1956 (69 years ago) () and became a member club of US Figure Skating in 1958. It is the oldest figure skating club in Georgia and one of the largest figure skating clubs in the United States. Annually the AFSC hosts the Magnolia Open and the Atlanta Open. [1]
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View of Luna Park, Cleveland's shoot-the-chutes ride, ca. 1910. Note the sign for the "10¢ Infant Incubators" in the background. Note the sign for the "10¢ Infant Incubators" in the background. Luna Park was a trolley park (a type of amusement park ) in Cleveland , Ohio , from 1905 [ 1 ] to 1929.
The next year, U.S. figure skating champion Bobby Specht joined the show; he would be actively involved with Ice Capades for the next 31 years. 1943 also introduced the "Old Smoothies", Orrin Markhus, 51, and his partner Irma Thomas, 44, plus Trixie, the skating juggler. The production number "Toys for Sale" was the first story on ice with ...