Skating Rinks Granger Used

ROLLER AND ICE · TESTED NOVEMBER 2026

TESTED NEGATIVE — no skating house, roller or ice, is seated or ever was seated inside the CDP in any record reached — and the trade directory of the form's great age puts this county's rinks where everything else in this section stands: in South Bend. The 1948 Directory of Roller Skating Rinks — the form's own trade census, printed at the end of roller skating's wartime-and-after boom — lists for South Bend exactly two houses: the Playland Roller Rink, 1741 Lincolnway East, inside the Playland complex of row 2 (the amusement park carried its rink with it), and Bock's Rink (the directory's line reads "Ski-Hi Bock's Rink"), 226 South Lafayette Boulevard. No Granger, Harris Township or Clay Township rink appears in the directory's Indiana listings, and no rink of either kind appears for this ground in the directories, fragments or listings searched after it. The ice half of the row runs a generation later and one city over: organized youth hockey came to the county with Notre Dame's Athletic and Convocation Center ice in 1968, and in 1975 the Ice Box opened on South Bend's west side, at 1421 South Walnut Street — a second sheet for a programme already too large for one — passing in 1981 to South Bend Youth Hockey, Inc., adding a second rink in a $2.5-million expansion in 1999, and standing today as the family ice house of the county, its public skating and figure skating the form in which Granger children have always skated: as visitors to a South Bend rink. (One directory line dates the Ice Box's founding to 1974 against its own history's 1975 opening; both print.) The bowling-alley-that-became-a-rink course of the row's pattern — the conversion this section was asked to look for — is not found on this ground or in the county record reached; the pattern prints as unrun-to-negative, not borrowed from another city's rink.

Sources:

1. Directory of Roller Skating Rinks, revised edition, 1948 (Harvey R. Rice) — Indiana listings; South Bend: Playland Roller Rink, 1741 LWE; Bock's Rink, 226 S. Lafayette Blvd.; no township rink listed.
2. Ice Box Skating Rink, the rink's own history (sites.google.com/site/iceboxskatingrink) — youth hockey from 1968 at Notre Dame; the Ice Box opened 1975; South Bend Youth Hockey, Inc., 1981; the 1999 second rink, $2.5 million. RinkTime directory: founded 1974 (conflict printed above).
3. Searches: the record and current listings for a rink at any Granger address, November 2026 — none found.