Last skate: Portland couple bids farewell to Lloyd Center rink after 60 years

The closure displaces a longtime community gathering space and ends a nostalgic destination where multiple generations created memories and relationships.

For sixty-six years, a sheet of ice at the heart of Portland's Lloyd Center held something rarer than commerce — it held continuity. The rink, which opened in 1960 alongside the mall itself, became a place where generations learned to fall and rise again, where couples like Jerry and Tally found each other and kept returning for nearly six decades. Its permanent closure in 2026 is not merely the end of a skating rink, but a quiet reckoning with how much of American community life was quietly housed in places we never thought to protect.

Last skate: Portland couple bids farewell to Lloyd Center rink after 60 years

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