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Title: Westchester Skateland Album
Dates: 1950, 1958
Collection number: 091
Creator:
Ted Atteberry
Collection Size:
1 flat oversize box (1.5 linear feet)
Repository:
Loyola Marymount University. Library. Department of Archives and Special Collections.
Los Angeles, California 90045-2659
Abstract: This collection consists of newspaper clippings and photographs, gathered in an album, of the Westchester Skateland roller-skating
rink, in Inglewood, California.
Physical location: Section H, Aisle 67, Row B, Bay 5, Shelf 1
Languages:
Languages represented in the collection:
English
Collection is open to research under the terms of use of the Department of Archives and Special Collections, Loyola Marymount
University.
Materials in the Department of Archives and Special Collections may be subject to copyright. Unless explicitly stated otherwise,
Loyola Marymount University does not claim ownership of the copyright of any materials in its collections. The user or publisher
must secure permission to publish from the copyright owner. Loyola Marymount University does not assume any responsibility
for infringement of copyright or of publication rights held by the original author or artists or his/her heirs, assigns, or
executors.
[Identification of item], Westchester Skateland Album, 091, Department of Archives and Special Collections, William H. Hannon
Library, Loyola Marymount University.
Gift of Ted Atteberry. Accession number: 2006.56
This collection consists of an album with photographs and newspaper clippings on the opening of the Westchester Skateland
roller-skating rink at 1112 West Manchester Boulevard, Inglewood, California. The location borders the Westchester area of
Los Angeles; hence this geographic designation was used for the rink's name. Brothers Roy and Bob Wetherbee leased the rink,
which they closed in 1959 because the open-air rink could not draw enough customers in bad weather. Besides the album there
are loose photographs and clippings in folders, including a copy of the letter from the proprieters stating why they could
no longer afford to run the rink. The collection's materials document skaters at play, both at night and during the day.
The Westchester Skateland album is stored in one flat oversized box, with loose materials stored in folders.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in
the library's online public access catalog.
Westchester Skateland
Roller skating
Roller-skating rinks