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re: Name amusement parks you went to that no longer exist
Posted on 7/4/17 at 8:09 pm to East Coast Band
Posted on 7/4/17 at 8:09 pm to East Coast Band
Poarch Creek Indians are about to open a new one in Foley, AL.
Name is OWA,having to do with the name of their tribe. Stupid choice. How do you say it? What kid is gonna get excited and bug his parents to go to OWA? It sounds like a government agency.
Name is OWA,having to do with the name of their tribe. Stupid choice. How do you say it? What kid is gonna get excited and bug his parents to go to OWA? It sounds like a government agency.
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Posted on 7/4/17 at 8:24 pm to Ramblin Wreck
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Astro World - Houston, Texas
This was a Six Flag park. I think we bought season tickets and took our kids several times the last year of operation. They always had great concerts, which were free with the admission price. I was always surprised how uncrowded the park was, especially being in a city the size of Houston.
Ultra Twister FTW!
I think it closed because the area around it got ghetto as the white people suburbs moved further out to BW8 (and now to TX99 in some parts)
This post was edited on 7/4/17 at 8:25 pm
Posted on 7/4/17 at 8:27 pm to CroTigerXIII
Look at my post on page four. An excerpt from the Daily World that I posted. It was called Ride-A-Slide. I think the location is near the South campus of OGHS (formerly Doctor's Hospital). Definitely got skinned a few times myself.
That's correct, on the east side and if I remember correctly, there is a nursery (which sold palm trees) there or was there in its place.
Yep, nursery is still there: Google Street View
ETA: Didn't see your second reply with Ride-A-Slide.
Anyone recall Carnival Beach? It was located somewhere between Sunset and Lafayette. I've never been there but one of my uncles used to go there. Never knew what it was about as he never told me anything about it.
That's correct, on the east side and if I remember correctly, there is a nursery (which sold palm trees) there or was there in its place.
Yep, nursery is still there: Google Street View
ETA: Didn't see your second reply with Ride-A-Slide.
Anyone recall Carnival Beach? It was located somewhere between Sunset and Lafayette. I've never been there but one of my uncles used to go there. Never knew what it was about as he never told me anything about it.
This post was edited on 7/4/17 at 8:47 pm
Posted on 7/4/17 at 8:31 pm to Ramblin Wreck
Ponchatrain Beach
Astro world Houston
Hammels Park Shreveport
Astro world Houston
Hammels Park Shreveport
This post was edited on 7/4/17 at 8:32 pm
Posted on 7/4/17 at 8:41 pm to Ramblin Wreck
Thanks OP for this thread brought back some great memories, my grandparents use to take me every year to Opryland when I was a kid, got to play with my first set of tits there at about age 10
Posted on 7/4/17 at 8:47 pm to I am GLORIOUS
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Geauga Lake (Ohio)
White Swan Park (PA)
I ran in similar circles.
Conneaut Lake Park has opened and closed many times. Originally a "trolley stop park".... It has an early Wild Mouse Coaster...a wonderfully terrible Dark Ride - The Devil's Den... "with infamous gum wall" and a rare, but important fun house (now too dangerous to access).
The biggest attraction was the Blue Steak roller coaster... which was scary due to how run-down it is/was.
Blue Streak POV
Some "Dark Ride" history.
Posted on 7/4/17 at 8:47 pm to Ramblin Wreck
Astroworld and Waterworld. Would follow those days up with an Astros game. Good times.
I can also remember thunder bird beach and the big red slide.
Anybody remember the 2 water slides off 4-H club rd in Denham Springs? My mom would drop my brothers and I off there for hours. This was in the mid 80s.
We also would spend hours at a small water slide park in Surfside Beach, Texas. Good times.
I can also remember thunder bird beach and the big red slide.
Anybody remember the 2 water slides off 4-H club rd in Denham Springs? My mom would drop my brothers and I off there for hours. This was in the mid 80s.
We also would spend hours at a small water slide park in Surfside Beach, Texas. Good times.
Posted on 7/4/17 at 8:56 pm to Brosef Stalin
rAre you thinking of Carnival Beach from the 60s and 70s?
Posted on 7/4/17 at 9:02 pm to CroTigerXIII
quote:quote:
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Ride-A-Slide
Spent many a summer day there back in the day
Found the address and other info:
Incorporation Date: 21 March 1978 (over 39 years ago)
Jurisdiction: Louisiana (US)
Registered Address: 5651 HIGHWAY 167 SOUTH, OPELOUSAS, LA 70570
Ride-A-Slide information
Posted on 7/4/17 at 9:06 pm to TigerCoon
It was Ride-A-Slide he was referring to. What was at Carnival Beach? I mentioned it a few posts above.
Posted on 7/5/17 at 3:07 pm to Captain Lafitte
Carnival Beach was family amusement area with a 10 acre or so man-made lake with a sandy bottom near Sunset. You paid admission, and got to swim, have picnics, etc. There was a big slide, diving platforms, some food venues, etc. I remember a big orange dragon statue in the lake that sprayed water. Keep in mind that back then, very few folks had pools. It was essentially a dressed up swimming hole. Think Thunderbird Beach, minus the rides.
It's been many, many years, but I think I remember that there was a honkytonk on property that sold beer and had bands. That last bit might be my imagination.
I also remember going to that ride-a-slide. Those concrete waterslides would peal your hide off.
It's been many, many years, but I think I remember that there was a honkytonk on property that sold beer and had bands. That last bit might be my imagination.
I also remember going to that ride-a-slide. Those concrete waterslides would peal your hide off.
This post was edited on 7/5/17 at 3:13 pm
Posted on 7/5/17 at 3:11 pm to Ramblin Wreck
Geauga lake/sea world outside of Cleveland
But, I have cedar point and kings island to go to
But, I have cedar point and kings island to go to
This post was edited on 7/5/17 at 3:14 pm
Posted on 7/5/17 at 3:12 pm to Ramblin Wreck
pontchatrain beach
astro world
six flags new orleans
astro world
six flags new orleans
Posted on 7/5/17 at 3:15 pm to MorbidTheClown
Astroworld
Waterworld
Six Flags New Orleans (only went once, though)
Fun Fair Park when I was a kid
Waterworld
Six Flags New Orleans (only went once, though)
Fun Fair Park when I was a kid
Posted on 7/5/17 at 3:18 pm to LSUBoo
Delta Village (GOAT)
Dogpatch & Marble Falls (the great twin parks in the ozarks)
Folly Beach
Ponchatrain
Dogpatch & Marble Falls (the great twin parks in the ozarks)
Folly Beach
Ponchatrain
This post was edited on 7/5/17 at 3:18 pm
Posted on 7/5/17 at 3:25 pm to CAD703X
VisonLand near Birmingham, AL.
It was started and stopped a few times. They finally sold off all the rides. It is now a water park only called Alabama Splash Adventure.
It was started and stopped a few times. They finally sold off all the rides. It is now a water park only called Alabama Splash Adventure.
Posted on 7/5/17 at 3:56 pm to Ramblin Wreck
Pontchartrain Beach, Astroworld, Opryland, Fun Fair Park
Posted on 7/5/17 at 4:58 pm to Twenty 49
Astroworld.
Twenty bucks for a season pass in 1976 and biked there every day from Spring Branch. The loaves of bread were GOAT. Best way to cool off was the Alpine ride or the Horizons theater
Twenty bucks for a season pass in 1976 and biked there every day from Spring Branch. The loaves of bread were GOAT. Best way to cool off was the Alpine ride or the Horizons theater
Posted on 7/6/17 at 11:24 pm to mswiggins
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VisonLand near Birmingham, AL. It was started and stopped a few times. They finally sold off all the rides. It is now a water park only called Alabama Splash Adventure.
Alabama Splash Adventure has a few rides, including the Rampage wooden roller coaster. The Rampage was recommisioned a few years ago.
Posted on 7/7/17 at 12:03 am to Ramblin Wreck
Delta Village- Tallulah (My grandmother lived down the road)
Astro World
Fun Fair Park- Baton Rouge
Astro World
Fun Fair Park- Baton Rouge
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