Tag: Portland Ice Hippodrome

  • Image of a Ford Car with a driver and passanger pulling a plow with a man riding it.

    Fun Fact #76 Did the Zamboni Break Down?

    No, the Zamboni didn’t break down. This image from The Oregon Daily Journal on January 13, 1918, shows a crew resurfacing the ice at the NW Marshall Street Rink. It highlights an early improvement over previous methods, which relied entirely on manual labor. Before the Zamboni was invented, ice resurfacing at natural and mechanical rinks involved pulling a scraper behind…

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  • Fun Fact #38 Was the largest ice rink in US really in Portland’s Slabtown?

    Discover the lost history of Slabtown’s Ice Hippodrome, once the world’s largest artificial rink and home to the first US team on the Stanley Cup.

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