The ceiling is decorated with hanging dolls, half of them clowns. At one side is a large line of a random assortment of armchairs looking over the regular skating side, and on the other side is a platform with a couch on it. Sitting on the couch is a huge doll looking over the ramps. Behind the couch, the wall is covered in mirrors. The walls have no railing.
As soon as you step in, you are immediately hit by the smell of an old peddler's mall. The place is huge but the entrance is super cramped with junk. The only person who works there is the old man collecting the entrance fee, he has white hair and he looks like he has seen better days.
I doubt that this place has ever passed a single health inspection. It is literally the worst place I've ever seen, and I suppose that gives it a certain uniqueness. I know this probably all sounds fake, but I couldn't make this up if I tried.
While we are putting on skates my other friend tells me about how the one time she had gone before the old guy made sexist remarks towards her friend.
If you want to experience Clown Hell™ but also enjoy skating, this is the place for you.
I get in fine and pay for me and my friend, but my friend is stopped by the man. First, the guy questions my friends water container, and my friend reassures him that it is just water, the old man comments that my friend doesn't look like an alcoholic so he'll let him through. Then, the old man looks at my friends septum peircing and says to him "Will that nose ring there go up your nose?" my friend reassures him that it won't multiple times. The old man makes a comment that we are in the bible belt.
I should also mention that the bathrooms have no doors at all (only a narrow twisting hallway entrance) and no divider between the two toilets. I had to guard the hallway so that nobody would walk in on my friend.
Awful experience. One star is a kindness. The old man who runs the place is rude!!!!!!!!!! For someone with an obviously failing business you would think he would be kind and helpful to new customers. First and last time he will ever see a dime of money. I would advise anyone wanting to skate to travel to Paducah.
We start skating. and if you've ever been in a normal skating rink, you'd know that most people that go to them are amateurs. But everybody here is really skilled and is pulling off some cool tricks. I was very impressed. We conclude that only people who are serious about skating would come here anyways. It's important to note that this is the only skating rink in the city, so there's no other place to go.
After you get through the rotating bar gate, it's still super cramped. Instead of a regular skating rink where you go up to a desk and are given a pair, you are expected to simply pull one of the pairs off of the shelves of skates. And trust me, I have never seen more pairs of skates in one place before. All different brands and types. There is a barred off section with motorbikes, and another with really old videogames like pacman.
This guy who runs the place could be a little nicer to the kids, great ramps, but the vending machine needs to be fixed.....but okay place 2 stars is being kind
While we're skating, this music is terrible. Like, it's trying so hard to sound popular but you've never heard these songs in your life. A few songs are incredibly creepy, like Lavender Town level creepy.
At some point, the old man running the place comes on the speaker. He says "I've just realized that we haven't played any redneck music yet" and then "Since we're playing redneck music, we might as well turn on the red lights". Suddenly, country music is blaring and all the lights are a violent red. The only normal lights are over the large doll sitting on the couch like the Queen of Hell. Immediate nightmare stuff.
It's a place to skate but owner is a older man and is a little bit different. As a child he creeped me out with his where vibe and the feelings never faded
The place is already creepy from the outside. There's a huge clown statue and the parking lot is bumpy. There are multiple large signs saying that you should skate at your own risk. You follow two huge blinking red arrows to the door on the side to get in.
Love the rink and good prices! A quarter for adult. The owner won't let adults even leave once so have a charged cell phone! The owner is on the overhead calling out anyone, which is scary to little kids learning. He has a bike area and so you couldn't ride the bike except during three songs, great idea just had confused kids. Such great potential!
We get our skates on and put our stuff in a locker. The building is very large and there are two sections, a regular skating section and a place that's more like a skate park with ramps. In the ramp section, there is this large structure that's sort of like a seesaw, you skate up one side and once you get to the top it tilts so that you can skate down. Extremely dangerous. Also in that section, there are over a hundred of bicycles just laying on the floor in lines, and over 20 unicycles.
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