Arena gardens owned by Forest Sammons and Pearl Rardin

The Hearald Dispatch publishes a photo and story from the Book Lost Huntington about once a week. The book is available to buy, and, of course, I own the book.  This is the article printed yesterday:







Come back soon as I will write some of mom's memories about this place.  Yesterday she told the story about Sweetie getting hit by a puck.

The arena was built when Mom was 13 and burned the year mom turned 20.  Mom may have been away at school when the fire actually.  She remembers that it had a really wonderful organ that grandmother wished could have been saved.

Mom said that there was a hockey team.  They were really cute men and they skated with Mom since the was the owner's daughter.  She and her father went often to the arena.  Joan Hyldolph learned to skate at the arena and mom says she became pretty famous.  Joan went to High School with mom and dad.

Mom remembered that Becky McComas skated there and many others as well, but Mom said she didn't really get into the skating except for skating with the young men on the Hockey team.  The hockey players weren't from Huntington.  They came to Huntington to play hockey at the arena.