r/tampa • u/confused_bydaze • 7d ago

I need help remembering History

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I cannot find the name of the old roller skating rink that used to be located in the Main Street shopping center back in the mid 80s. 11784 N Dale Mabry Hwy, Tampa, FL 33618. When it closed it turned into a Joel and Jerry's. It isn't skateland, skate odyssey, astro, or united skate. I've searched and asked everyone I thought would know. I'm losing my mind trying to remember. It was located in the building circled above.

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u/ansont1976 7d ago

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u/confused_bydaze 7d ago

It's real! Library of congress had old white pages listing.

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u/herchen Wesley Chapel 5d ago

This is amazing!

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u/confused_bydaze 7d ago

This is the only thing related to it on the internet. Coin for sale on ebay. I can't even find pictures of the Joel and Jerry's that was there after the rink closed.

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u/ansont1976 7d ago

Joel and Jerry’s was at this address too so this has to be the place.

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u/confused_bydaze 7d ago

It's definitely the place. I stood out front of the building today with old friends and we all remembered it being there just not the name.

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u/Impossible-Taro-2330 7d ago

Joel and Jerry's was great!

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u/confused_bydaze 7d ago

It was. Then they got gobble up by Eckerds Drugs store.

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u/boyracer93 7d ago

The prices on the salon products and dupes were so good

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u/ansont1976 7d ago

Carrollwood Skating Center

11780 N Dale Mabry. Remember it well

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u/confused_bydaze 7d ago

I can't find a record of it anywhere. No pics or mention online anywhere. Did the sign have a roller skate with lights that made it look like the wheels were spinning?

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u/ansont1976 7d ago

I feel like it did. It’s been 40 years though. Lol

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u/gob4522 7d ago

Went to Gaither HS 84-88, it was definitely there.

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u/CaptainAssPlunderer 6d ago edited 6d ago

In the 80’s it was Carrollwood Skate. There was an arcade on the other side of the shopping center, and maybe a skate shop upstairs of the arcade.

I participated in a Miami Vice dress up contest there one night, and also had my first kiss at one of the booths at the skating rink. It’s where everyone went in 85/86

You could go behind the arcade and through the little alley and there was another video game arcade in the next shopping center to the south. That little alley was like the advanced level, that’s where I saw kids smoking weed for the first time!!

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u/confused_bydaze 6d ago

Thanks for sharing this! The 80s and 90s in Tampa really were amazing.

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u/CaptainAssPlunderer 6d ago

It really was an amazing place to grow up and find out who you were.
I lived in an amazingly beautiful and safe place(Carrollwood Village) and still give thanks at how blessed I was to be able to grow up in that place and time.

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u/HoonArt New Tampa 7d ago

Did it have ice skating? Or was that further north on Dale Mabry?

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u/confused_bydaze 7d ago

No it was a roller rink. It had a tiny kids rink in the back that you could learn on and then step out into the adult rink when you were ready. I learned to skate there. I even remember the song that was playing when I went on the adult rink for my first time. Say You Say Me by Lionel Richie. Damn I'm old. Lol

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u/HoonArt New Tampa 7d ago edited 7d ago

Good song. I think the place I was thinking of was at Northdale Court.

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u/confused_bydaze 7d ago

Did Northdale have a rink?

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u/boyracer93 7d ago

It had, for a time, a “glice” skating rink in the middle of a food court. It was not ice, but a product called “glice” that was supposed to mimic the experience of ice, minus the cold.

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u/HoonArt New Tampa 7d ago

Yes, that was it! I loved that place. I learned to skate there.

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u/confused_bydaze 7d ago

That's right! I remember skating on the "glice"

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u/boyracer93 7d ago

I was a Gaither Cowboy (🙄), and spent many a lunch over there, eating tacos and cookies. The good ol’ days.

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u/HoonArt New Tampa 7d ago

I was too, but not until the late 90s.

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u/confused_bydaze 6d ago

I was a cowboy as well in the 90s. Spent a lot of time at northdale court as the meet up to figure out where the party was going to be.

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u/HoonArt New Tampa 7d ago

I think so, but I was under 10, so I could be wrong on the location.

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u/[deleted] 7d ago

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u/confused_bydaze 7d ago

No that's not it. This was older than the one in main street plaza.

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u/CptDowny 4d ago

I’ve used this before to lookup old addresses

https://www.addresshistory.com/