Your memories of a dead Amusement Park thread

[G✇JI☈A]

I sure most of you have stories from you child hood or maybe adult hood of times when you visited a theme park that has since closed down due to financial trouble, safety concerns or it just plain sucked ass.

One park I visited a couple of times when I was a child was Leisureland Fair which between 1984 and 1992 was the Mornington's Peninsula's premier fun park.

Well thats a lie it was pretty lame. You parked you car and then you had to take a steam train to the amusements itself which seem to take forever. And if this train breaks down it makes it difficult to get in or out of the park.

And once there you will find a lame and probably unsafe Roller Coaster which was also really short (the ride will take less then a minute to complete it's figure 8 track), A log drop, Merry go round, Some spinny chair ride which always looked about a minute away from throwing a kid into the sky, the world's smallest ferris wheel and a mini golf course which I think like hedge mazes have no place in a theme park.

Plus they had paddle boats for a lake but no life jackets so there is a drowning waiting to happen.

The park closed down in 1992 and all that stands is the cafe and visitors center is now some church meeting place and the rest of the park is now a housing development.

[Chucklehead,baby!!!]

marine land!! come back to us!!

[viscera]

acealive1 said:

marine land!! come back to us!!

Isn't that the park that involves explosions and overcoming the odds?

[Insomniac]

I used to go to to Riverside Park in Agawam, MA when I was a kid. It was Riverside for most of the 20th century until some time in the mid-90s when the family that owned the park sold it. Then it eventually became a Six Flags, which it still is today. So while it's been Six Flags for a decade or so, I only remember it as being Riverside. So I guess while the park isn't dead itself, the original name is.

I'm actually going there for the first time in some 10 years or so on Tuesday, going for a full day with some college friends I haven't seen for about a year or so. Should be a blast. I finally get to try out the Superman ride, which is supposedly one of the best roller coasters in the world.

[Baixo Astral]

I miss the American Adventure - many a childhood day I spent there, only to see it slowly die from the late 90s onward.

[BigBadZ]

Opry Land oh how I miss thee... we had the ever so great HangMan (actually the batman in 6 flags) but it was such a great park...

[Paul Servo]

There was this one in Orlando called Boardwalk&Baseball (previously CircusWolrd). It had an old school vibe to it. At one end of the park was a baseball field where one of the MBL teams (I forgot which one, it's early and I haven't had caffeennee yet) played spring training.
When I went there, one of the "street performers" they had on the boardwalk section were these two British woment that told retellings of classic fairy tales, but they were subtley off color. I was 14 at the oldest and one of the jokes just made me laugh hard and one of them stops telling the story and tells me that I shouldn't have gotten that joke and goes back to telling the story

[amsiraK]

Waterfun Village in Alexandria Bay, NY. It was only open for a few years, but I miss it dearly. It was waterslides, the very mature "you must be 4'7" to ride this" tube ride, a boardwalk with restaurants and arcades, bumper boats, paddle boats and a diving show featuring the Aquamaniacs.

Good times. Gooooooood tiiiimes.

[Doctor Tull-eus S. Venture]

I sorely miss Action Park in Vernon Township, NJ.

It had some of the best water slides ever. Even though some people died on them.

[Sad sack ass fruitbooty]

tull said:

I sorely miss Action Park in Vernon Township, NJ.

It had some of the best water slides ever. Even though some people died on them.

Seconded for (Tr)Action park, the loop waterslide being my personal favorite!

[drclaw]

insomniac34 said:

I used to go to to Riverside Park in Agawam, MA when I was a kid. It was Riverside for most of the 20th century until some time in the mid-90s when the family that owned the park sold it. Then it eventually became a Six Flags, which it still is today. So while it's been Six Flags for a decade or so, I only remember it as being Riverside. So I guess while the park isn't dead itself, the original name is.

I'm actually going there for the first time in some 10 years or so on Tuesday, going for a full day with some college friends I haven't seen for about a year or so. Should be a blast. I finally get to try out the Superman ride, which is supposedly one of the best roller coasters in the world.

The Superman coaster is kick ass! And I too remember riverside. I only went there a couple times before it became Six Flags, but it was awesome. Another park I have very fond memories about was Whalom Park in Lunenburg, Massachusetts. It shut down in 2000. It was my favorite amusement park.

[tartsonawire]

I got all bummed out when they closed AstroWorld here in Houston because that's where I got asked out on my first date by my first boyfriend. We went with our Youth Group to a Christian concert day thingy. We were supposed to be chapperoning, but our groups went off with another group, leaving us alone. We were standing there, watching the concert, and he goes "So, whatcha doing tommorrow?" "Nothing, really" "Wanna go to a movie?" "Sure". We dated for almost a year. That was 8 years ago. Recently, we re-connected and started talking again and he's one of my best friends

[Bob Schlapowitz]

drclaw said:

insomniac34 said:

I used to go to to Riverside Park in Agawam, MA when I was a kid. It was Riverside for most of the 20th century until some time in the mid-90s when the family that owned the park sold it. Then it eventually became a Six Flags, which it still is today. So while it's been Six Flags for a decade or so, I only remember it as being Riverside. So I guess while the park isn't dead itself, the original name is.

I'm actually going there for the first time in some 10 years or so on Tuesday, going for a full day with some college friends I haven't seen for about a year or so. Should be a blast. I finally get to try out the Superman ride, which is supposedly one of the best roller coasters in the world.

The Superman coaster is kick ass! And I too remember riverside. I only went there a couple times before it became Six Flags, but it was awesome. Another park I have very fond memories about was Whalom Park in Lunenburg, Massachusetts. It shut down in 2000. It was my favorite amusement park.

Yeah I haven't been there since it was Riverside either, and absolutely seconded on Whalom Park. I have fond memories of Paragon Park in Hull, MA which shut down in about 1987 I think.

[fuzzywarble, squat cobbler]

Anyone from El Paso remember Magic Landing? The park where a kid was decapitated.

[amsiraK]

tull said:

I sorely miss Action Park in Vernon Township, NJ.

It had some of the best water slides ever. Even though some people died on them.

Holy crap! Traction Park! Where you too can be put in peril by stoned teenagers! LOL

[Ben Wyatt]

I remember my dad taking me to Rocky Point as a kid. That place was pretty badass.

[LaParka Loves Candy]

The Pavilion at Myrtle Beach is no longer there but truth be told I didn't care for it much!

[Bob Schlapowitz]

theslickness said:

I remember my dad taking me to Rocky Point as a kid. That place was pretty badass.

Rocky Point in Rhode Island? When did that close?

[drclaw]

bobschlapowitz said:

theslickness said:

I remember my dad taking me to Rocky Point as a kid. That place was pretty badass.

Rocky Point in Rhode Island? When did that close?

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[Chucklehead,baby!!!]

viscera said:

acealive1 said:

marine land!! come back to us!!

Isn't that the park that involves explosions and overcoming the odds?

haah nooooo,it was just like sea world and they originally had shamu, the first one