


In 1950, the property was purchased by a man named Harry Dickerman, who transformed the space into a roller rink named Harry’s Roller Rink.

The building which houses it was first constructed in 1940 and was originally used during World War II to build and produce airplane parts. Ugh, don’t even get me started! 😉 Anyway, in real life Rinky Dinks is known as Moonlight Rollerway and it is a national historic landmark. Baby One More Time”-Britney without those pom poms is like dressing up as the Pope and not wearing a white robe! I had a better Britney costume when I dressed up like the singer for Halloween back in 1999 and I didn’t have a big Hollywood budget to do it with, either. That video has to be one of my all time favorites and the fact that they couldn’t even get the costumes right seriously bothered me! I mean, hello – where were the pink hair pom poms in the opening sequence? Dressing up like “. Besides just being disappointing as a whole, I was HIGHLY annoyed with the recreation of the “. On a quick Glee side note, I just have to say that I was not at all happy with last week’s Britney Spears-inspired episode. One location that I have been dying to stalk for months now is Rinky Dinks, the cabaret/roller rink owned by April Rhodes (aka Kristin Chenoweth) in the Season 1 episode of Glee titled “Home”.
