Two things come to mind.I will bet all of us have family photo and slide albums, perhaps converted now to disc,of our good old days attending these venuestime waits for no one,but we have our memories..and second; it has always baffled me why Cape Cod,of all places,never seems to have boasted a world class amusement parkit would seem like a natural,but . The coaster itself was shortened in order to be ready by the Fourth of July holiday, with its final circular turns left off the drawing board in the interest of time. I remember going to an amusement park, I thought we walked there from the rental. We would make sure to hit every ride and try our luck at the various games of chance as well. A new stone-carved front entrance designed by Hugh Cairns would add elegance to the Nantasket Avenue side. Mountain Park in Holyoke MA. Six Flags America in Maryland purchased the coaster and relocated it in 1985. Pleasure Beach Ballroom had big bands like The Dorseys (before my time) , but being a product of the 50s I remember seeing Fats Domino and Patsy Cline there. As one of the most historic and popular highways in North America (and dare we say the world), Route 66 has gone through a series of changes since its inception in 1926, going from . Ditto. Except for the flying swings incident. Ive ridden the roller coaster that was moved from Paragon to Six Flags America, in both of its locations; Six Flags restored a (horizontal) loop at the end that burned and was removed at Paragon. So folks, remember tomorrow never knows if theres someplace or something you like go there now, enjoy it, take photos, and do what you can to make sure it sticks around, because some day it might not be there anymore! One of the most intriguing to me is Holy Land, USA in Waterbury, CT. Its one of those in-between places that some might say doesnt belong on the list because its being, well, you might say resurrected. Following the show, wed watch the fireworks from the parking lot. Touted as the strangest farm on earth, this park was developed by John Benson, a British animal trainer who had originally purchased a 200-acre lot about an hour north of Boston to serve as a temporary home for animals he would buy and sell. We used to go every year! The Batman roller. savin rock amusement park in west haven ct. should definitely be added to this list. I grew up right near norunbeger park me and my friends would take a row boat across the Charles river to get into the park, we would go almost every day in the summer, we didnt have much money but could go to the park by crossing the Charles river and just walking in. Glad when it finally close and that gorilla was sent to a sanctuary down south and CNN showed the gorilla touching grass for the first time in over 25 years. During the late Forties and early Fifties my father had a car Number 87 in those races. A. Schiff & Associates steel wild mouse roller coaster located at Paragon Park in Hull, Massachusetts, USA. In the photo at right, from June 2, 1942, mechanics who had just finished the annual inspection and repairs to the Paragon Park roller coaster gave it the first ride of the 1942 season. I remember as a young girl with some friends taking the train to Revere Beach Amusement Park in the 50s many times. A rider suffered head, wrist and ankle injuries on Monday after being ejected from a roller coaster in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. It remained so until 1925, when it was topped by two feet by the Revere Beach Cyclone just down the road. What we know about the amusement park accident that killed an 11-year-old Iowa boy. A Thanksgiving Day fire at nearby Nantasket Pier destroyed most of the fleet of steamboats that carried passengers to and from Boston. I also recall a booth with a figure inside dressed like a gypsy woman. I loved the carousel. The rest of the site is dedicated to condominium development. In one incident, a man fell into a pond. Then we started aging and before we knew it Savin Rock as we knew it was gone, but not forgotten. In late 1984, they accepted Kahns offer. My dad worked there. In the ensuing real estate crash, the developers would lose control of the property and never realize the plans for a second building at the rear of the site. We went with another family. He also would own the row of storefronts along Nantasket Avenue from the front entrance northward to Fascination, although to most observers, the separation was not noticeable. They tore down the Pavilion the site of many a first kiss and more in the 50s and 60s in Myrtle Beach a few years ago. This was a Great deal $ ! What about Jollie Chollies in Massachusetts? I also remember the Revere Beach Amusements alomng Revere Beach in the 50s and 60s. While my mother caught up with her pal Betty, whom she hadnt seen in years, and my sisters made new friends with Bettys daughters I roamed around and snapped random photos with my new 35mm camera. Ive been on the one at Canobie and maybe one other but that was enough for me! You forgot Pleasure Island. The year 1929 is significant in American history as the beginning of the Great Depression, and its impact also was felt at Nantasket Beach. It closed in 1984. Lincoln Park in Dartmouth, MA, just part of New Bedford, MA! I cant believe they didnt have Lincoln Park listedthat place was the best! Could hear the train whistle every Saturday from my yard. We rented a big house, across the street from the beach. Shore dinners especially the clamcakes. With the economy still climbing out of a recession, they faced stark reality years of deferred maintenance and the rising popularity of larger theme parks meant that significant investment would be required to modernize Paragon and make it competitive as a destination. About a month later, a huge blaze destroyed much of the roller coaster, the front entrance, and concessions along the front. Rocky Point was my 8th grade class trip! There was a coast guard station at lands end and a rather exquisite abandoned nightclub also at lands end. Im now in what you would call the elderly stage of my life (Im almost 77). The amusement park closed in 1994 and sat abandoned for years before its remains were finally demolished out of concern for public safety. As the story goes, were it not for the limited number of months in the year it could be open, Disney would have been more involved. It is now located next to the old train station and clock tower. On March 28, 1923, flames ripped through Paragon, causing $500,000 in damage and destroying much of the southern end of the park and the cottages along the way toward Atlantic Hill. It is a warm summer day and Paragon Park is busy with visitors. The roller coaster was the worlds tallest when it was built in 1917. Neither one mentioned. What a great time to be a kid. Damage estimates topped $300,000. But another group of preservationists began to think about how memories of the park could be saved, and fixed its gaze upon the antique carousel. Lone Wolf 83 subscribers Subscribe 95K views 11 years ago I found this video in my archives! mod i remeber the blizzard of 78 that was freezing and 27ft snow drift i know i shoveled them to make money as a kid froze my butt of lmao, and delivering newspapers in the winter took its toll on me as well , i agree i foze my arse off. The park's Ferris wheel was moved to the New Bedford waterfront and the Comet roller coaster was torn down on July 11, 2012. Loved Kings Castle land as a fun place to take my grandson when he was young. My first job was parking cars in the lot across the street. Yes, Riverside Park was memorable as was Mountain Park. Not sure what the weather is like where you are, but weve got snow-a-fallin here outside of Retro Roadmap HQ, so instead of going out on the roads, Im looking backward down memory lane via my own photo collection.I figured Id go back as far as I could in my own collection and start with Paragon Park, circa 1984. Here on the SouthCoast, many have fond memories of riding the Comet roller coaster at Lincoln Park in Dartmouth. Eric- what cool memories! During peak season, street parking (for free) fills up by 7 a.m. A couple of $20 grassy lots are available away from the beach but close, such as across the street. I really loved Lincoln Park.If youre not you made my morning just for letting me remember Lincoln Park!!! If my memory serves me, there was a airplane ride that soared over the lake ! But most significantly, Dodge looked to make an impact with the new and improved park. I vividly remember a Killer Kowalski wrestling show at the pavilion during one of my visits. What about Pine Island Park, In Manchester, NH? Ive cross posted your request for a photo of this ride on the Paragon Park Memories page on Facebook hope it helps! Retro Roadmap Photo Archives- Do These Places Look Familiar To You? Us and some of our neighbors would take advantage of $5 after 5 nights to take the kids to Whalom Park a few times a summer. Correct, Leo, only the name was Pleasure Island. See my post below. A wood coaster was just what the park needed for its 10th anniversary, and Predator delivered. Also visited Crescent Park, Rocky Point ,Bensons ,Pleasure Island,Kings Castle land Whitman,Ma Whalom and Canobie Lake. Some items, such as the motors and machinery of most rides, arcade games, prize inventory, needed complete replacement, while the buildings themselves needed to be dried out. My family always preferred Mountain Park then Riverside. I showed off my roller skating expertise to my junior high classmates back in the Miss Rocky Point, grandparents had a cottage right next to the park, spent many summer weekends visiting the cottages and walking to the park, loved the pool, playing speedball, the pizza slices and the bumper are. Thanks for the great memories! The wooden coaster was previously known as Giant Coaster when it was located at Paragon Park in Hull, Massachusetts. Lots and lots of great memories. It ended in the 70s after a series of fires destroyed it. I have always been a fraidy cat about going on roller coasters, and I remember my mother telling me that when she was a kid she made my grandfather take her on the giant coaster, and it was the first and last coaster ride shes been on! We were bused to school at Hingham. \rIt is 1984! We had some good times there. There was also a small park in or near Whitman, MA cant recall the name that we went to once. I remember Savin Rock very well. It is the oldest coaster in any Six Flags park. Memories, thanks. the Zoo in GB. Master carousel artisan Charles I.D. sadly lasted only about 10 years. My parents met at the roller rink at Canobie when young. We could ride the rides all day. The site is now home to condominiums. There was also a ski lift-type ride called the Sky Lark, an automobile-themed ride known as "Turnpike Cars" (replaced by a different ride in the 1970s called the "Indy 500"), and a water ride called "Bermuda Triangle" (formerly the "Congo Cruise," the "Jungle Ride," the "Red Mill", and the "Mill Rapids"). Of course, we miss Rocky Point and Crescent Park, they were in our state of RI; however, Jolly Chollies was an equally amazing amusement park. But in the 80s some of my best fun was checking out the abandoned rides of Crescent Park when my grandmother lived in the high rise they built on the land. I remember watching Bea Lillie and Robert Emhardt among others. Built into the side of Mount Tom it now sits in ruins, closed many years ago. https://www.facebook.com/pages/Paragon-Park-Memories/103289636409972?sk=info. A perfect ending to another day in paradise at the shore! Storyland was good as well. 2023 www.patriotledger.com. I liked Riverside Park in the 70s. The Super Screamer was there until 1999. The Giant Roller Coaster of Paragon Park was one of the first sights youd notice as you drove into Hull on George Washington Boulevard. The Likelihood of Dying on a Roller Coaster. Lincoln Park was THE BEST! The actors included many stars on their way up including Hal (and his then wife, Ruby). The historic "Fascination" game room closed in 2019 due to storm damage. So many wonderful memories. "They preserved the spirit of the ride," amusement park aficionado B. Derek Shaw told USA Today. They closed long time ago. She convinced me to ride the corkscrew roller coaster and that was the beginning of my love of roller coasters. Aw, Les that sounds like a lot of good times! A case was defined as the death of a person which was associated with a roller coaster in the United States between 15 May 1994 and 14 May 2004. Cut fresh pasta into small rectangles and pinch the, Copyright 2023 TipsFolder.com | Powered by Astra WordPress Theme. one year it was HOT and we were gorging on clam cakes at the end of the day but decided one more ride cant hurt.. the one that starts leve and ends up having the rider flying upside down. Built in 1917, the wooden. Lots of fun and memories were made from my time spent at Whalom. Early 50s. I know it was small compared to others mentioned, Salem Willows was always a blast! Opened by the Fitchburg & Leominster Street Railway on the shores of Lake Whalom in 1893, Whalom Park would be known as one of the 15 oldest amusement parks in the United States by the time it closed for good in 2000. Unfortunately it was replaced by a Six Flags. I remember going to Bensons Wild Animal Farm several times as a youngster. All I was left with besides a footprint on my backside for not taking more, better photos, when I did have the time, were my memories of having an all day pass discounted by collecting match book covers stapled to my shirt hem and spending the day riding the kiddie cars, the Congo Cruise, the merry go round and more, playing skee ball in the arcade and eating ice cream on a hot summer day. When I drive around that corner approaching Paragon park I am still a little startled when I see a bunch of condos instead of the roller coaster. Loved the Merry Go Round. It was often referred to as Disneyland of the Northeast. There are at least two books published reminiscing about Pleasure Island. And I can still hear the excited screams of the daring roller coaster riders now. the carousel (PTC #85) that they saved and moved down the street, http://themeparks.about.com/library/coasters/blwildone.htm, http://www.paragonparkmemories.com/Index.html, https://www.facebook.com/pages/Paragon-Park-Memories/103289636409972?sk=wall, https://www.facebook.com/pages/Paragon-Park-Memories/103289636409972. For the younger crowd, there was the Normandy Room. Without even knowing it, wed had our last ride at Paragon Park. Glad to know that the Giant Coaster is still around and can be enjoyed by those who have the stomach for it . Great memories ???? Still learning how to compose a photograph, I think back and realize that my penchant for photos without people in them was in force then, and I went as far as to scribble out the lady who was in the foreground of this photo of the Snack-a-rama. Dogs are banned from the state-owned Nantasket Beach Reservation from May 1 to September, and a local law change would have no effect on the states rules. Wildcat, Bell's Amusement Park, 1997. Of cause my mother loved to play Bingo . Find it all and much more with the interactive Roller Coaster Database. Fun fact: a couple of fires over the years changed the configuration of The Giant Coasters track, but it was a fire at another park in St. Louis that allowed Paragon Parks owner to buy a couple of cars from a coaster named The Comet, which is why some of the cars on The Giant Coaster had Comet on them. If your birthday was in the summer (mine wasnt), a party there was something to anticipate all year. Follow The History of Paragon Park on WordPress.com, Paragons Administration Building an original from 1905. Mountain Park in Holyoke, MA where I grew up. Dad saw Mom and went over and told her he was going to marry her. I worked for Larry Stone nights running the red mill and the carousel; and days at funland taking photos at a faux bar Singapore Sams. My grandparents lived in Nantasket so I had the pleasure of going to Paragon Park many times during the summer months. Today, all that remains of the park is the carousel that was built in 1928, which now is housed in a pavilion a bit down the road from where it once stood, yet still allows for children to ride its hand-carved horses almost a century after they were first created. You say Wonderland may have helped inspire Disneyland, but Disney employees were actually involved with Pleasure Island in Wakefield, Massachusetts. We enjoyed quite a few evening visits in the 80s. I would show up at the ride with a girl and they would give me a boat all to ourselves. Somewhere in between, the Arcade Bazaar was lost due to a fire. In 1917, another man fell and got creamed into paste after reaching out of the Derby Racer to retrieve his fallen hat. Doesnt anyone remember two of the most popular parks in CT Savin Rock in New Haven, CT and Pleasure Beach in Bridgeport, Ct that was a lot smaller than the Rock but had one of the best ballrooms in the country with constant top named performing bands in attendance. During the next several months, the town of Hull was in turmoil. Nothing like Paragon Park has ever before been seen near than Luna Park at New York, The Boston Globe enthused, referencing the world-famous amusement center at Coney Island.George A. By then, the Stone family found itself in an unfamiliar position: unsure of how long the park could survive. Its not very long, but theres a scene where kids are running around a portion of the park. It was dismantled and completely rebuilt down in Maryland. When young my parents would take me tomthe Wonderland Park in Revere MA. Larry and Phyllis Stone decided to divorce, and Klayman, caught in the middle of a dispute between the owners, found himself looking for a new job after 30 years. "It was the noise. Remember the himalaya ? A second or was it actually the third? It closed in 1984. Real estate interests were inspired both by the removal of what some considered the honky tonk amusements and by the zoning loophole Kahns plans had exposed. Our graduating class of 1950 went there after our senior banquet for a fun evening. At about the same time, Dodge decided to scale back from running Paragon on a day-to-day basis. Lincoln Park, North Dartmouth, Ma. Keansburg, N.J., March 14, 2013 -- Workers at Keansburg Amusements Park dismantle a roller coaster rendered useless by Hurricane Sandy. 10 Kings IslandMason, Ohio. I grew up about miles from Pine Island Park. Googling Pleasure Island Massachusetts will yield many fan sites as well as old and new information, not the least of which is a Friends of Pleasure Island website. He didn't survive the incident. Does anyone remember Funland Park worked there too. The Summer of 1985 seemed like the longest ever, as day by day more and more of Paragon disappeared. John- what great evocative memories you have of Hull! I went for a visit recently and got inspired for a novel Im working on, but I was looking for some photographic inspiration. Was it destined to become a cornerstone of the casino economy, or was its presence an obstacle to further development? Contents 1 History 1.1 Sale and move I loved Norumbega Park and all the rides. My parents brought me and I brought my kids. Peter thats so cool that your grandad had the restaurant under the clock! My grandparents took me. Paragon Park in Hull, Ma-Lincoln Park, Dartmouth, Ma. Very scary, but such an adventure. The price of a new ride was now in the millions, and the cost of liability insurance for thrill parks continued to climb. Vendors along the boardwalk sold fried clams, salt water taffy made in a pulling machine visible to patrons, hot dogs and other food. Crowds dwindled in the 1970s, and the park finally closed following the 1977 season. You can help Coasterpedia by expanding it. I lived in Leominister and took the bus to whalom Park on Saturdays. I loved Rocky Point. My Park in Holyoke, MA. Who makes these lists? Rumors occasionally surfaced of a potential buyer showing interest, but as each winters gossip gave way to springs warmer temperatures, Paragons gates swung open to welcome the crowds. The Giant Coaster, which was built in 1917 and was removed from the park in 1985, is now known as The Wild One at Six Flags America. Some restaurants and openncafes had pictures of it years ago. The Stone family, by now in sole control of Paragons operations but still sharing ownership of the land with Golden, suffered losses in 1946 and 1949. I had a bad experience on one as a kid and never went on one until then. Till I was a teenager lived in Naugatuck CT and lived to ride the wonderful carousel at nearby Lake Quassapaug! Preservationists swung into action, mounting a publicity and fundraising campaign that drew awareness but far less than the nearly $1 million valuation that had been suggested for the 57-year-old carousel. Nantasket Beach, Massachusetts, is an exposed beach break with consistent surf that can be used at any time of year. Thank you! I have a 24 doll won by my aunt at the Nantasket beach, the doll has no markings, but has the tag still stapled on the voil dress she has on, the tag said won at Luckys Nantasket beach park . 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