In Case You're Planning On A Visit To Los Angeles...

IDLERACER

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Apparently Wikimapia is a new internet gimmic that unlike Google Earth, needs no downloading. Another feature, is that if you run your cursor over the rectangles, it tells you what you're looking at. Click HERE for a peek at the rink where Frank Carroll, Ken Conjemi and Linda Fratianne coach. Formerly the Healthsouth Training Center, it's now called The Toyota Sports Center. If you back the screen up a little, you can see just how close it is to the airport. If you zoom in close enough, you can see Evan Lysacek's car in the parking lot (its the black Toyota Cressida).​

 

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that's really creepy

 

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I've already found this before by Google earth (I know, I have too much free time ) but here it is

This is Yubeliny, the ice rink where Plush skates.
http://www.wikimapia.org/#y=59949208&x=30290337&z=16&l=0&m=a&v=2

 

IDLERACER

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Another nearby legendary place is the Culver Ice Arena, where Debi Thomas learned how to skate. It has pretty much been home base for Tai & Randy for the last 25 years as well.​

 

Joesitz (RIP)

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Big Brother is all around us.

 

Tinymavy15

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lol. My dad drives by these rinks on his way to work everyday.

 

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Thanks for the idea! :thumbsup: I could easily locate The Pond, in Newark, Delaware. But I'm not sure what color Johnny's car is. Besides, you can't tell a Lexus from a Dodge from this distance:

http://www.wikimapia.org/#y=39682342&x=-75728862&z=18&l=0&m=a&v=2

 

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I actually stay at the hotel that directly behind the Toyota Sports Center when I head out to my company's corporate offices for a visit. I'm actually heading out there tomorrow for a week. There have been times when a lower level competition or summer skating clinic going on that you'll also run into skaters and their families staying at one of the hotels nearby.

 

IDLERACER

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And of course, HERE is where Michelle first strapped on a pair of skates back in the 80s.​

 

Tinymavy15

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IDLERACER said:

And of course, HERE is where Michelle first strapped on a pair of skates back in the 80s.​

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i assume that is the skating edge area in Harboe City, CA. I thought that the Ice Chalet in Rolling Hills estates in claiming to be Michelle's first rink. that's where michelle did say that the first rink she skated in was in a mall.... i think it was the ice chalet in the Avenue of the Penninsula on Deep Valley Drive, rolling Hills esates.

 

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Tinymavy15 said:

i assume that is the skating edge area in Harboe City, CA. I thought that the Ice Chalet in Rolling Hills estates in claiming to be Michelle's first rink. that's where michelle did say that the first rink she skated in was in a mall.... i think it was the ice chalet in the Avenue of the Penninsula on Deep Valley Drive, rolling Hills esates.

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That has to be the first place where Angela Nikodinov skated (it's right near her home)...I'm not so sure about Michelle. It's a crummy rink. No place to sit down. Anyhow, click HERE for an aerial view of that place.​