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90 Years in 90 Days: Ice Skating at Cumberland Park

90 photos that define Cleveland Heights

Cleveland Heights officially became a city in 1921. Cleveland Heights Patch is by compiling 90 photos to create an album of the city's past and present. We'll run the feature for 90 days, one photo at a time.

Ice skating in Cleveland Heights wasn't always an indoor activity. used to have its own rink, too. This particular photo is from the 1960s.

Nowadays, skaters head to the , which features open public skating and lessons for beginners. But we would like to know more about skating at Cumberland Park, so we're soliciting memories. Please share them in our comments section below.

ann jarosz November 30, 2011 at 08:09 pm
This is where I learned to ice skate! Very cold walk from Cedar & Coventry area to the frozen parking lot (in the summer we rode our bikes). The ice was so bumpy I'm surprised we could skate on it at all. My brothers began their hockey "careers" here, then were on the first Heights team when the Community Rink was built. This may explain why I'm comfortable in Fl in the winter!
Michelle Simakis (Editor) November 30, 2011 at 08:31 pm
Thanks so much for sharing these memories, Ann!
Afi-Odelia Scruggs December 1, 2011 at 02:19 am
Ann, thanks so much for your comment.
Maureen Weigand December 1, 2011 at 07:20 pm
I lived in East Cleveland in the fifties and, mostly, we skated at the Forest Hill Pond. A few times we got rides to Cumberland and skated there but it wasn't nearly as fun as the Forest Hill Pond because there was shelter and a fireplace at Forest Hill. Ice skating was a great activity for us -- boys and girls together, y'know?

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