RollerC Posted May 2, 2007 Share Posted May 2, 2007 So which defunct parks do you wish you could go back in time and visit? The park that I ultimatly want to visit is Euclid Beach. I have read so much about it and when driving past the old site and seeing apartments standing where rollercoasters once stood makes me wish it was still there. It looked like such an awesome park to visit and and ones to wonder what would it be like today if it was still there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XII Posted May 2, 2007 Share Posted May 2, 2007 Idora Park Want to ride their Wildcat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ginzo Posted May 2, 2007 Share Posted May 2, 2007 Riverview Park in Chicago: it had 17 woodies over the years it operated, including a flying turns and the bobs. Crystal Beach: crystal beach cyclone (duh). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snuggles Posted May 2, 2007 Share Posted May 2, 2007 I'd visit every defunct park with an adult sized wooden coaster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kraxleRIDAH Posted May 2, 2007 Share Posted May 2, 2007 Knott's Berry Farm circa 1975 and Magic Mountain circa 1978. Both parks are presently in a condition where they might as well just be defunct. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gnome Posted May 2, 2007 Share Posted May 2, 2007 ^ That's a tad bit of an over statement, imo. I would also say that Knott's was probably at it's best the year they opened ghost rider, maybe one or two years after. As for disfunct parks, I couldn't really care about any of them. As for coasters, I wish that the Rye Aeroplane was still around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Axman Posted May 2, 2007 Share Posted May 2, 2007 ^^ I totaly agree with you about Magic Mountain. It might as well be closed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Baynham Posted May 2, 2007 Share Posted May 2, 2007 Hi TPR Members Funnily enough I have just finished watching a two-hour long documentary about Euclid Beach Park. Such a shame it closed 28 September 1969. I would love to step back in time to ride the 'Turns, Racing Coaster and the Thriller. Then enjoy a few goes on the Rocket Ships and Over the Falls, before finishing with a circuit aboard the Sleepy Hollow Train. Simon Baynham Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexinla Posted May 3, 2007 Share Posted May 3, 2007 A couple of years ago i worked for the mtv beach haus which was located at the former Marineworld site in Palos Verdes. They still had some buildings standing and i walked around a lot to explore it. The area is spectacular, i could only imagine how amazing this park probably was. Damm Seaworld for closing it whitout any notice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airtime&Gravity Posted May 3, 2007 Share Posted May 3, 2007 Riverview, because it was the world's largest park when it closed, and it was home to one of the most famous coasters built. I loved Lakeside, and Riverview looked like a larger version of that park, and it had some of the greatest coasters ever built. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scaparri Posted May 3, 2007 Share Posted May 3, 2007 Riverview Park would be number one, followed by Crystal Beach, Palisades, Idora, and Long Beach Pike. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supermanrosfan0810 Posted May 3, 2007 Share Posted May 3, 2007 Rocky point in Warwick, RI. Good memories from when I was little, riding my first coaster, the loop-corkscrew when I was 6! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darien Laker Posted May 3, 2007 Share Posted May 3, 2007 Chippewa Lake Park has always really intrigued me. That coaster looks like it would have been short but sweet, and there were some other interesting looking rides. Also, Opryland and Old Indiana. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awclark Posted May 3, 2007 Share Posted May 3, 2007 Wasn't there a Busch Gardens out in LA at one point a long time ago (or somewhere out there)? Also from a LONG time ago, a park that practically nobody would know about, but was in an issue of "Roller Coaster!" magazine. It was Legend City in Scottsdale, AZ. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imdrunk Posted May 3, 2007 Share Posted May 3, 2007 Opryland, USA. Nashville, TN. My first job was there. I was working the 'hit the thing with a hammer and see if you can get to the top' game. Forgive me for not knowing the name of the game. Anyway, this big bald guy came to play. He hit the silver pedestal and the hammer came back up and gashed his head open. There was blood everywhere. Everyone passing by stopped to look. I got the medics on the scene and they took him away. They hosed down the entire area with water and chlorine bleach. Ahhh . . .the memories. . . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tömmioh Posted May 4, 2007 Share Posted May 4, 2007 Riverview, Idora, Palisades, SFAW, because they looked nice and had coasters that I would've liked to ride. Another park is Planet Fun Fun in Finland, which was just 3 miles away from me (operated from 1991-95) and featured an indoor Vekoma custom coaster The coaster is now in Germany, click me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zonga Posted May 4, 2007 Share Posted May 4, 2007 I would of loved to visit Playland at the Beach in San Francisco. I'm a sucker for a good ole' sea side park. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edboxer Posted May 4, 2007 Share Posted May 4, 2007 I would love to have Idora Park back, I grew up there. And believe it or not, while the Wildcat was wild, it wasn't my favorite (even with the outrageous airtime on the low long bunny hill at the bottom of the first drop). I preferred the Jack Rabbit - it was a blast, lots of little bunny hills, a great double down after the first turn and those old open trains. Idora also had a really cool train ride (which was the only way to view the Jack Rabbit from inside the park) and the heavenly Rocket Ships almost within reach of the tree branches. My best memories of the Wildcat are from outside the park. Idora was located at the edge of Mill Creek Park - a 5+ mile long park running from Market Street to Rt. 224. The park is great for cycling. They even had a marathon there for a while (The Peace Race). Anyway it was fun to ride your bike up to the edge of Idora and listen and watch the Wildcat through the trees. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bulldogmom Posted May 6, 2007 Share Posted May 6, 2007 I think I'd pick one of the OLD parks, such as Luna Park or Dreamland, circa 1900 when electricity was the new thing and there were millions of lights everywhere. It's funny- the lights, not the rides, were the attractions. I've seen some pics of these places at night and they're absolutely stunning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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