After a Great Depression and a world war, Americans were ready to have some fun. Postwar innovators delivered, with new or improved products that made it easier, and cheaper, for people to play. The ...

Like many young hockey fans, 3-year-old Carter Stamkos is obsessed with the Zamboni machines that resurface the ice during games. He expressed this sentiment in no uncertain terms when he attended the ...

In Minnesota, the coolest guy on the block is not the one with the Corvette. It’s the one with his own personal Zamboni. Jim Leonard is that guy, with a 40-year-old personal-size machine that makes ...

There’s something Zen-like about watching a Zamboni, the hulking vehicle whose solemn dance is the feature of every intermission at an ice rink. There’s the drone of the machine, the driver’s look of ...

Charlie Brown said it best: “There are three things in life that people like to stare at: a flowing stream, a crackling fire and a Zamboni clearing the ice.” This is truer than ever for the new ...

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 ...

LAKE ELMO, Minn. - In Minnesota, the coolest guy on the block is not the one with the Corvette. It's the one with his own personal Zamboni. Jim Leonard is that guy, with a 40-year-old personal-size ...

The boxy four-wheeled contraption is not particularly graceful. It does one job, night after night, intermission after intermission. Yet the Zamboni machine, that overgrown ice tractor that resurfaces ...

On a Wednesday afternoon that was chilly outside in Jacksonville and colder still inside the VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena, Jerry Farissier was crouched down in the coldest spot of all. Leaning into ...

The Zamboni totally transformed winter sports by giving chopped-up ice surfaces a fresh-frozen smoothness in a matter of minutes. David Brewster/Star Tribune via Getty Images The Ice Capades were in ...

More than six decades after the first Zamboni ice resurfacer was built, a new machine hits the ice. Zamboni introduced its newest 500 Series machine, the emission-free Model 560AC, earlier this month ...

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