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Laying Ice: Inside the Legendary Legacy of the Zamboni When you think of ice skating, you think of a few things: the cold, the skates, and the Zamboni. By: Matt Blitz
Richard Zamboni walks around the first ice-surfacing machine his father built seven decades ago. The 88-year-old is taking his time to remember.
"We're using the same framework today, basically, that [my dad] came up with," he says, his hands on the wood-paneled machine.
It's late February 2020. Fifteen miles south of downtown Los Angeles, in Paramount, California, Zamboni is giving a tour of the family's factory as well as one of the oldest operating ice skating rinks in the country, Iceland. In a corner of Iceland is the Model A. First built in 1949, it's the original Zamboni, a name that's become indistinguishable from the thing itself, like Xerox, Kleenex, or Google.
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