vintage “holiday on ice” zamboni

that awkward moment when your skating club’s zamboni breaks down on the ice minutes before the annual show is about the start … and a tumblr handle like “brokenzamboni” becomes eerily accurate.

and then they put padding around it and just have the skaters perform their programmes around it. i mean, after all, almost all of them can skate circles around me on any given day; why not in the show, too?

maybe next year i’ll actually skate in the show (i’ve been too shy the last two years). you know, instead of being on the ice in spirit.

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vintage ice bunny

“meryl streep on ice”: http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/ice-show-at-the-garden/1264575

vintage show skaters (illustration)

(Source: classiccow, via dethspiralz)

bigbigheavy:

Sonja Henie 

oldhollywood:

Sonja Henie in My Lucky Star (1938, dir. Roy del Ruth) (via)
Photo by John Mescall.

quilaladisney:

This is The Fabulous Ice Age official trailer.  What a fascinating history!

(via moonriders)

moves-in-the-field:

Sonja Henie
1939 Time magazine

“sonja henie fantasy” (1946), an unmade disney short that would have featured the olympian skating alonside animated animals