I havent seen anything on this so I desided to start a thread dedicated to long gone amusement parks that aren't in the history books. A good example... Boblow Island! It's a park that used to be near Detroit and is now gone, propably forever! Yet very few remember it or know anything about it. At least now everyone who reads this will know there was a Boblow Island.
Post on any park that was once near you! ( If it's not mentioned in the books cause' we all know about Riverveiw and the old Conay Island parks. Also you can post what you know about other parks mentioned.

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There was once a Busch Gardens Houston. It was before I was born, but I know of it's existance, and it was in my area.

I do belive that Bolbo Island was in Canada, and closed in 93 or 94.

Happyland was lost due to fire a long time ago (i know the person who lite it up too), but Playland currently stands in its place.

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I was supposed to go to Boblo Island with my grandparents when I was like 5, but while we were on the plane they surprised my sister and I by telling us we were going to Disney World (not that I cared either way, being only 5 and not really liking my grandparents in the first place). Wasn't it sort of both in the US and in Canada, being on the island and all?

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Their was a Busch Gardens in California way before i was born.

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There used to be a boardwalk in San Francisco with a rollercoaster and all. I've seen pics. Now on the same site is low-income housing.

There used to be a roller coaster on Jacksonville Beach, and I have an older postcard with it -- you can identify right where it was by some buildings and so forth that are still there today. It was razed in the late '70s or early '80s, I believe, having talked to some people that were lucky enough to ride it.

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Boardwalk and Baseball in Florida, Idora in Youngstown, Euclid Beach Park in Cleveland. These are all parks that were great in their own way and are all missed.

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There was also Chippewa Lake Park near Cleveland- closed in 1980 I think,

and Euclid Beach Park in Cleveland- i forget when it closed.

I've seen postcards of a lake resort in or near Indianapolis (Broad Ripple area, I think) and if memory serves me, there was an woodie.

there was one in chicago...riverview...way b4 me though

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I know of Frontier Land and Legend City in the Phoenix area. There's also Coney Island in Ohio (which PKI has a section of park dedicated to it, I believe). Those are all I can think of. I don't have any information about the ones in Arizona.

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Boblo (I had to CRINGE when I saw that mispelling of a childhood memory!!) is an island, but was Canadian. Ferry boats took passengers to Boblo from docks in Detroit, Wyandotte (south of Detroit), and from the Canadian side of the river. My brother and I made yearly trips to Boblo from 1966 through 1972 (church group or school). I went one time when the park was going through it's "revitalization". I was disappointed when one of the owners had to bow out after he was seriously hurt in an accident and could no longer help run the park. It was down hill after that.

Two more parks in the Detroit area that are less known than Boblo (except by us old farts) were Edgewater Park in Detroit, and Walled Lake Amusement Park in Walled Lake (west of Detroit, in Oakland County). Walled Lake closed down in the early to mid 60's. Edgewater closed in the early 70's.

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Rocky Point in RI...it was closed in the 90s...it had a 3 looping corker and a inta first gen free fall...:(:sadface:
i did not get to go to it...but wanted to...:mad:
and now i guess you could add whalom park in ma...
My B...its in RI i dont know Y i put CT...:(

I did have a chance to go to Rocky Point(its in Warwick RI). It was a great small family park. The Arrow Corkscrew was one of the best I had riden. It is now at Six Flags Enchanted Village in WA, as Wild Thing. They also had a long Arrow Log Flume ride that had to be the best on made. Two lift hills!

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I think the biggest decision to close a park had to be Opryland in Nashville, TN. That park had some awesome rides and it was the most heavily visited park in TN. (I know there aren't many, but...) They had a wonderful collection of old school and new innovative rides that I and millions of people enjoyed....GAYLORD, YOU ARE TERRIBLE, YOU THEME PARK HATER!!!!

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I remeber that log flume. It was so high and it went right down into the river.

I miss my dear Opryland. I rode my first my first looping coaster their: Hangman. Now all those coasters ,with the exception of Hangman, rest in pieces about an hour and a half away from my home.

Check out defunct parks.com--I have spent hours cruising this totally fascinating site. Almost makes me wish I could go back in time just a few days to visit some of these great parks in their glory.

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Rockaway Playland, NY with the great Atom Smasher coaster
Palisades Amusement Park, NJ with the Cyclone

When I went to Portland, Oregon, and I was suprised to discovered Portland once had another park than Oaks Park in the 1950s and 1960s, this was Jazeteen (spelling?) Park that sprang out of a swimsuit company's swimsuit line. It had a nice wooden roller coaster and a nice swimming area. What replaced it is a shopping mall- Jazeteen Mall. The mall has a mural honoring the old amusement park that stood before the mall. I think the old park closed in the early 70s due to a big fire or a comapny bankruptcy. If you are from the Portland, OR area, please correct me on the spelling of the place..thanks!

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There was a Kiddieland near me, but it closed before I got to go. It had a wooden coaster, so I was disappointed. Maybe not exactly LONG lost, but still lost.

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Peony Park in Omaha Nebraska. It was a classic fun park with a large ballroom, small steel coaster, picnic areas, and a great old water park. The original pool was fantastic and featured a sand beach and zero depth entry on one end. Sadly, it was landlocked and couldn't grow like it needed to, it's the location of a grocery store, bank and a couple other businesses now.

There was a rotting park about a mile from my house, Playland Park. It was closed in the early 80's, but the rides sat there until 1995, when Ohio Edison put a substation there. All that's left is their roller rink, and it's stability isn't that good.

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Can you give me some more info about those Busch Gardens?

Does anyone remember Hammel's Park in Shreveport/Bossier City? It was a small, family-friendly park; my second ever park. It had a Zyklon roller coaster which now operates(operated?) at Branson USA. This was my third roller coaster, and it was really special to me when I was able to ride it at its new home last summer! Ahh... HP was indeed a fun family park...

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In san jose, there was a friendly little place called
Frontier Village
the best part - it was located next to a cemetary/mortuary
and on days when the wind was just right,
well lets just say
the food stands did not do good business
:sick:

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[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Chip [/i]
[B]I know of Frontier Land and Legend City in the Phoenix area. There's also Coney Island in Ohio (which PKI has a section of park dedicated to it, I believe). Those are all I can think of. I don't have any information about the ones in Arizona. [/B][/QUOTE]
Coney Island was a big park. They had some great woodies including the Shooting Star(out and back) and Wildcat, which the Grizzly(PKD and PGA) was modeled after. The park had a lot of flat rides, dark rides, water rides, and even a kiddie coaster called the Teddy Bear(a copy was built at Stricker's Grove). The park also had a giant swimming pool called Sunlight Pool with a sand beach. The park was right on the Ohio River and suffered from flooding year after year. Finally they decided to open KI and abandon Coney Island. They moved some rides from Coney Island icluding the Flying Scooters(Flying Eagles), log flume(now Wild Thornberrie's River Adventure, Scrambler, Galaxy(was called the Bavarian Beetle at KI), and some other small rides. Coney Island reopened in the early 90's with small rides, nothing like they had before PKI was built. They have a Zyklon called Python, some small flat rides, paddle boats, and Sunlight Pool still with some water slides too.

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[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Hulk [/i]
[B]Can you give me some more info about those Busch Gardens? [/B][/QUOTE]
From what i heard from my parents , it had free beer, some rides, and one or two small coasters.

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