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• I used to love going ice skating at Glacier Falls! For a while in 1968 I was probably going there just about every week, and they played the Magical Mystery Tour album as the skating music. To this day, every time I hear a song from that album, I think about ice skating.

  By  Anonymous, at October 29, 2007 11:55 PM  

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• From '63 through '66 I skated there weekly with a loosely knit skating club of Brookhurst Jr. High kids. Gettin' to be a long time ago now!

  By  Anonymous, at November 06, 2007 12:37 PM  

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• we used to take the kids there and eat the besst Bar-b- q ribs we have ever had, and watched the skaters.

  By  Anonymous, at November 14, 2007 3:12 PM  

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• I went to St. Barbaras school in Santa Ana in the 70's. We had a field trip to Glacier Falls up in Anaheim. I didn't even know that it was there!
  It was kind of run down, but we had a blast and returned several times. I was sad to see it go, like most of my PC memories.

  By  Anonymous, at November 20, 2007 11:52 PM  

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• my friends and I took skating lessons for many years at glacier falls. i remember having a huge crush on my skating teacher, Evy Scotvold, who left Glacier Falls around 1970. he went on to become Nancy Kerrigan's skating coach. I remember the big fireplace by the snackbar, and that alpine mural on the south wall near the zamboni garage. good times.

  By  Anonymous, at December 27, 2007 2:59 PM  

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• Wasn't it right off Katella actually on another street? There is now Glacier Gardens in that same area and we used to play broom ball there at 1am in the middle of the night with my church group in the mid 90's. Super fun. I have never seen a preist have so much fun running across the ice!

  By  Josy, at December 29, 2007 12:42 AM  

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• I and some friends took some figure skating lessons at Glacier Falls around age 12. We were pretty awful, but thought we really had it goin' on. One time we dressed up in leotards to try to impress boys. This was in the early 70's. I remember that huge fireplace we'd all sit around to warm up. I also remember there was a guy named Kelly... I think he worked there... all the girls had major crushes on him.

  By  Anonymous, at January 14, 2008 1:16 PM  

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• My first chance at ice skating was in the early 1980's at this rink, and even with the horrendously awful rental skates (boots with zero ankle support, and dull as butter knives blades), I fell in love with the ice. Having grown up on roller skates and Saturdays at the beloved Skate Ranch, this was a shock to me, to find something that was even better/easier for me. I was so taken with it that I soon had better skates, and was riding the bus from Prospect and Fairhaven all the way up to the Ice Capades Chalet in the Brea Mall- a ride of something like an hour and a half on a good day...one way! Eventually, I was taking private and group lessons, becoming what was known there as a 'test skater': someone who didn't go to competitions, but 'competed' against the ISIA ice skating test standards of excellence. I never got farther than Delta level, having started so late (in my early 20s) and already feeling the early effects of Meniere's Disease, but I didn't care. On the ice, I felt more free, graceful and happy than I ever felt away from it. I know that I was no Dorothy Hamill, having seen tapes that my pro, Harland Parker, took of me for performance critique, but the huge outlay of time and money on this is something I will never regret. My only wish is that there would be Chalets in every mall in the country, allowing others to share in this beauty. Through the glass walls of the Brea rink, there were always many watching, with wistful expressions, and children who often wound up inside, being shepherded around the ice by some of the rink's regulars. Who knows how many of those have gone on to become Olympic athletes? I well remember the whispers of skaters who spoke with dread of being 'sent to the Freezatorium'-the other OC Ice Capades Chalet- to be subjected to remedial tutoring by John Nicks. It has been interesting to see coverage of him and his various students over the years.
  
  Though I only went to GF two or three times, I am always going to have fond memories of the wonderful sport and art of ice skating it led me to.

  By  LadyDeerskin And Her Service Dog, at January 23, 2008 1:51 PM  

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• I remember going to Glacier Falls around the age of 7. I had never been on ice skates before, and it would be 35 years before I would again (for the last time!) I remember being one of the "bad" kids who preferred to try to chop up the ice with the blade of my skate, rather than actually trying to skate for any length of time. I discovered Flicka chocolates in the foil tubes at GF, so it wasn't a total loss!

  By  Cindy, at March 17, 2008 9:43 AM  

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• ANYBODY OUT THERE THAT WAS A POLAR PALACE IN LAHABRA SKATER,TRYING TO FIND A LOST LOVE THAT WAS TAUGHT BY HARLAND,HER NAME WAS DEBBIE WILLIAMS NOT SURE NOW IF SHE MARRIED AND HAS A DIFFERENT LAST NAME,IF SO REPLY TO rgoodwin61@yahoo.com.

  By  rong, at May 21, 2008 6:40 AM  

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