It very well could have been the pig barns.  Wasn't the roller skating rink
the old P&C before they built Judd Falls Plaza (which, BTW, Judd Falls Rd no
longer exists (at least not that portion of it). It's now an extension of
Pine Tree Road.  Supposedly, it made the 911 system better - at least that's
what the Best Western manager told me).

My mother took me to the roller skating rink and I got very proficient at
falling over or being forced into a split.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Cuyler Page" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, October 15, 2004 17:56
Subject: Re: [BP] Meat Market


> > We used to own a laundramat right next to the Cornell Insemination barn.
> It
> > was interesting and smelly to say the least.
>
> I played there as a kid there when they built it (the Artificial
> Insemination Experimental Facility on Judd Falls Road), back when the big
> arched roof place
> across the road was a brand new roller skating rink, long before it became
a
> bowling alley.   Ahhhh, history !   We used to hang on the 2" steel pipe
> fences and watch the very confined and contained bulls be walked around on
> something that looked like a single post rotary clothes line to keep them
> alive.   As little kids, we always hoped to see something special there;
> like we knew there was something special about the place because of the
name
> and the way our parents wouldn't really tell us what was going on, and the
> way they lowered their voices and smiled in a special way when talking
about
> the new facility with their friends, and saying to us only that the big
> expensive bulls were there to "perform their task".   As a treat, the lab
> workers at the place would give us red and blue balloons from the deep
> freeze storage boxes, used to keep semen samples from breaking when
shipped.
> Once we got some plain ones not filled with air, but the lab people
suddenly
> got worried and said we should not have those and took them back.   We
> wondered what the sea men were all about because there were not any ships
in
> sight around there and we never saw anyone in uniform.
>
> It never smelled bad then.   Are you sure the stink wasn't from the pig
> barns down the road?   Now that was SMELLY !
>
> cp in virginal bc
>
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