Here's a Hagley Vault post that's just for fun. This ca. 1940s sticker for the Crescent Roller Rink in Cedar Lake, Indiana was collected by Genevieve Pittner of Monroe, Michigan.
This is one of over 500 roller rink stickers collected by Pittner through exchanging stickers by mail with other collectors in groups like the Universal Roller Skating Sticker Exchange, a national network of sticker enthusiasts who traded stickers amongst each other. Her collection is now the Genevieve Pittner collection of roller skating rink stickers (Accession 2012.213).
The collection is a large album of stickers representing roller rink businesses from nearly every state in the United States. Some of the stickers are annotated with the names of other correspondents. The collection also includes letters Pittner exchanged with other collectors. Many show a strong cameraderie among the network of sticker collectors, and indicate that, while on vacation or traveling, skating enthusiasts would make a point of visiting the "home rink" of other skaters with whom they've corresponded and traded stickers. Other letters reflect the concerns of the era; one sticker collector writes that he must give up collecting because he's been drafted into the armed services; another writes about how difficult it is to get to the roller skating rink due to rationed gasoline.
To view a small selection of stickers from this collection, click here to visit its page in our Digital Archives.