Wheelerâs Family Entertainment Center in Moss Bluff has closed its doors. It was the last remaining skating rink in Southwest Louisiana. In a way, it marks the end of a way of having fun and getting a little exercise future generations will never know.
âWeâre ready to get out, but I cried when I posted the news,â said Greta Laborde Huval. The memories just came flooding back.â
Her husbandâs parents, Harold and the late Dorothy Huval, built the family entertainment center in 1983.
âI thought it was a good investment,â the 94-year-old Harold Huval said.
Greta, and her husband David, leased the building before taking full ownership in 1992. Parents who brought their children to skate were once skaters at the rink themselves.