Color Television, Cable and...Ice Skating Rink

Suppose you are a motel owner in the middle of freezing January, and you can't very well advertise your swimming pool (even if it's said to be heated). So, what are you going to do? How about an ice skating rink? In the past, there have been hotels and motels that have had skating rinks. For example, here's a ski resort in Vermont:

Topnotch Inn
Stowe, VT
1969

If you ask me, it looked like a patio that got flooded by a hose and then froze over.

And check out the "summer" and "winter" postcards of the same motel in the DC Metro area:

Marriott Motor Hotel
Washington, DC
1960's?

 See how they set up the ice rink right on the top of the swimming pool and put rails around it for inexperienced skaters? At least the motel bothered with the rails, unlike the Catskills resort below:

The Granit Hotel and Country Club
Kerhonkson, NY
1960's?

 This is a rather curious place to put in an ice rink. For one thing, the ceiling is rather low, so pair moves are definitely out. And look at all these lawn chairs lined up around the rink, like it was a swimming pool or something. Actually, judging from the architecture of the room, it looks like an indoor swimming pool room with the pool iced over.