Old Arena Images & Beginnings

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Met Center

 

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West Park Ice Palace, Philadelphia game from December 12, 1900, between home team Quaker City Hockey Club and the Princeton University team. Game finished 6-0 in favor of the Quaker City hockey clubbers. This arena, the West Park Ice Palace, burned down later the same season, in one of the earlier months of 1901.

 

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West Park Ice Palace, Philadelphia game from December 12, 1900, between home team Quaker City Hockey Club and the Princeton University team. Game finished 6-0 in favor of the Quaker City hockey clubbers. This arena, the West Park Ice Palace, burned down later the same season, in one of the earlier months of 1901.

The West Park Ice Palace AKA the Quaker City Rink opened in December of 1897 on 52nd and Jefferson streets.

 

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MSG 1930's

 

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The Syracuse Arena in 1908.

The Miller Park Skating Rink in Lynchburg,Virginia Dated 1908-1911.

 

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Looks like one of the early travelling Ice Shows was in town.

 

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The Syracuse Arena in 1908.
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The Miller Park Skating Rink in Lynchburg,Virginia Dated 1908-1911.View attachment 236471

Syracuse Arena seems rather narrow.

Lynchburg seems ahead of the times.

 

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MSG 1930's

It must be more recent... that USA flag design was introduced in 1960.

 

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The Manhattan Athletic Club Skating Rink in 1890.

 

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The Boston skating rink was on Tremont and Lenox built in 1868.It apparently was the first indoor rink to have artificial Ice.

 

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The New York Hippodrome built in 1905.

 

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The Seattle Ice Arena home of the Seattle Metropolitan's Hockey Club built in 1915.

 

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At least 7 Hall of Famers in that photograph. Imagine seeing that game, played for the Stanley Cup, in a 4000 seat arena!

I may be mistaken, but I believe the referee on the left is the venerable Mickey Ion.

 

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The Seattle Ice Arena home of the Seattle Metropolitan's Hockey Club built in 1915.
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The pic to the right (for some reason I can't see it while I'm logged in but I can when I'm not) reads 'Winter Garden'. It's apparently the interior of the Winter Garden arena in San Francisco, CA where the two teams met again in some kind of "World Championships" series a short while after the 1917 SC finals.

 

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The pic to the right (for some reason I can't see it while I'm logged in but I can when I'm not) reads 'Winter Garden'. It's apparently the interior of the Winter Garden arena in San Francisco, CA where the two teams met again in some kind of "World Championships" series a short while after the 1917 SC finals.

Your'e right.
It says more about it here.
Stanley Cup Play in the City by the Bay | Eric Zweig

 

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This is the interior of the Arena.

 

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The Galt Queen Square Arena built in 1887.

 

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The Quebec Skating Rink in 1871.

The South End Exhibition Skating Rink of Halifax in 1882.

The Quebec Skating Rink in 1898.

 

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Exterior view of the fourth Quebec Skating Rink built in 1889.

The Stratford Waterloo Street Skating and Curling Rink in 1905 built in 1886.

 

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The St.Thomas Granite Arena around 1905 built in 1878.

An interior rink image from 1900.

 

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The Brock Street Arena in Peterborough built in 1903.

 

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The Sault, Michigan Puller Stadium built in 1939.

The First Hockey Rink in Sault, Michigan was called the "Ridge Street Ice-A-Torium."(Also a Curling Rink)
Built in the early 1900's.
If anyone can find a photo of that rink please post on here.

 

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The Chicago Ice Rink built in 1917.