Yeah, it's my birthday

Here's another Iconic sign in my town, another vanishing institution. I saw on CBS Sunday over the weekend a special on skating rinks and one in particular that opened in the mid-60s and is a favorite hang-out for some of the older crowd. It's closing down. I thought adding a faded treatment of this sign would reflect the historical iconism of the skating rink and its vanishing from our recreational pasttime, like drive-in theaters.

Other interesting happenings on this day of my birth:
515 BC Construction is completed on the second temple in Jerusalem
1664 New Jersey becomes a colony of Britain
1894 Coca Cola is sold in bottles for the first time
1918 Moscow becomes the capital of Russia again after St. Petersburg held that status for the previous 215 years
1930 Ghandi leads the 200-mile Dandi March to protest the British monopoly on salt
1947 the Truman Doctrine is proclaimed to help stem the spread of Communism
1951 Dennis the Menace comic strip appears in newspapers for the first time

Notable births (other than mine):
1270 Charles of Valois, son of Philip III of France
1386 Ashikaga Yoshimochi, Japanese Shogun
1831 Clement Studebaker, automobile pioneer
1918 Elaine de Kooning, artist
1923 Mae Young, professional wrestler
1923 Wally Schirra, astronaut
1925 Harry Harrison, author (the Steel Rat series)
1931 William "Buckwheat" Thomas (Little Rascals)
1938 Johnny Rutherford, auto racer
1940 Al Jarreau, singer
1945 Sammy "The Bull" Gravano, gangster
1946 Liza Minnelli, actress
1949 Rob Cohen, film director, producer, writer
1953 Ron Jeremy, porn star
1962 Darryl Strawberry, pro baseball hitter
1963 Joaquim Cruz, Brazilian runner