Well, what I miss is the "hokey factory" about the old west - saloon - gold rush town - shooting gallery. I went there for the first time back in the early 80s and have been back several times over the years.
The last time I went (last summer) was with a family who had little kids with them. One of them, a little 3-yr-old, just went ape-p@@p for the shooting gallery, for whatever reason, maybe some deprivation in his childhood, who knows... Well, he wanted to spend the entire day there watching the animated figures and stuff. Maybe it was because so much of the rest of the park was just sensory overload for his young little brain... He got scared TO DEATH of Marvin the Martian..... okay, give him a break, he was only 3!!
This family was planning to go there again this year. But when Dad found out the shooting gallery had been demolished, he felt it would be too traumatizing on little son so they went to another park instead.
