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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WCUSA- The announcement will come when it COMES!

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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R.I.P.

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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Roller koasters are beautiful pieces of art. The movement of the trains is my anime. The screams are music to my ears.

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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