Wednesday, July 29, 2026

Question: Frank Zamboni built the first successful ice-resurfacing machine in 1949 at his skating rink, called Iceland. In what Southern California city did he do it?

Answer: Paramount. Zamboni ran the Iceland rink in Paramount, California, and grew tired of the slow, five-person job of resurfacing the ice by hand, so he built a machine that could do it in minutes. The machine still carries his name today.