Elemental is owned by the same owners as Island Surf and Sports, Symon Cousens and George Ketcham. This store has been open for 10 years, and offers a great variety of surf and skate boards, clothing, footwear, and safety gear. Also, Elemental offers both group and private lessons in surfing, windsurfing, kayaking and skateboarding. The friendly staff here will always do their best to help you find what you're looking for, while you peruse the most popular name brands in skating and surfing today.
Bennett Sports is a hockey pro shop located inside the Cranston Veterans Memorial Ice Rink on Phenix Avenue. The store was started in 1968 by Harvey Bennett Sr. after he retired from a 17-year career playing professional hockey. It is now run by his son Bill Bennett, who also played hockey professionally for the Boston Bruins and Hartford Whalers. Bennett Sports has a large selection of ice skates, hockey sticks, hockey masks, gloves, jerseys, clothing and other apparel related to the sport. The shop also repairs hockey equipment or ice skates and sharpens ice skates for $5. Parents can choose to enroll their children in Hockey School through Bennett Sports or get uniforms or jerseys embroidered with team names or other text through Bennett's embroidery shop.
Cranston Veterans Memorial Ice Rink, home of the Cranston Reds is an indoor hockey rink located on Phenix Avenue. The hockey rink has numerous uses such as being home to Cranston East High School and Cranston West High School hockey programs, hosting youth hockey leagues and adult hockey leagues for men and women, public skating sessions, learn-to-skate programs and is also home to the Cranston Figure Skating Association. The ice rink has four locker rooms, can hold over 1,000 fans on its bleachers and also has a concession stand and snack bar open during games. Public skating is available every day of the week and costs $5 for adults, $3 for children under 6 and $2 for seniors. Skate Rentals are $5. The ice rink is also available for rent and costs $235 per hour.
At Cranston Gun & Coin, customers are treated to an expansive inventory of firearms, specializing in the rare and exotic. In 2010, it moved to a more spacious unit in the Benjamin Building allowing for more displays and renovated with pine walls. The company isn't all about guns: it houses a large selection of lights (pocket lights and firearms lights) as well as knives, vests, firearm cleaning supplies, ammo and more.
This full-service bicycle shop has owned this corner on Main Street since 1920. Offering bicycles, rentals and accessories such as helmets, shoes, tires, brakes and more, W.E. Stedman is close to the bike path and stocked with cycling equipment. A variety of biking apparel and gloves are offered, as well as frames and seats for individual needs. Whether you just need to pump up your tires or buy brand new tires, the friendly staff at W.E. Stedman can guide you in the right direction.