A sad day in Memphis
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jasonl
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THAT SUCKS!!!!!!!!!
Thanks for ruining my day :-(
I always wanted to go there but I guess too late now. Wasn't that park in a bad neighborhood anyway?
I hope someone saves the Pippin. The other rides are just typical carnival rides.
Thanks for ruining my day :-(
I always wanted to go there but I guess too late now. Wasn't that park in a bad neighborhood anyway?
I hope someone saves the Pippin. The other rides are just typical carnival rides.
jasonl
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Also, the OLDEST operating coaster in the US is the 1908 Leap The Dips at Lakemont Park. It's the LAST of the side-friction type coasters. The car rides along the wooden track and is steered by the side railings. Very bumpity bumpity but extremely fun.
Amusements
Right down the street from me is one of the oldest operating amusement parks......Lake Compounce.....just down the street also from ESPN......Guess Bristol is not as small as I think~!
Anyone visiting care to come and ride the coaster???
Right down the street from me is one of the oldest operating amusement parks......Lake Compounce.....just down the street also from ESPN......Guess Bristol is not as small as I think~!
Anyone visiting care to come and ride the coaster???
jasonl
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Boulderdash
When I was living in MA I was planning on going to LC to ride Boulderdash. Seems like one AWESOME coaster. One day.
I'm into small parks. I'm all about keeping them preserved but unfortunately sometimes property gets sold, banks forclose, and the coaster goes away :-(
Thanks God for Knoebels, LC, Lake Winnie, Conneaut Lake Park (is it still open), Canobie Lake, and all the other small parks.
When I was living in MA I was planning on going to LC to ride Boulderdash. Seems like one AWESOME coaster. One day.
I'm into small parks. I'm all about keeping them preserved but unfortunately sometimes property gets sold, banks forclose, and the coaster goes away :-(
Thanks God for Knoebels, LC, Lake Winnie, Conneaut Lake Park (is it still open), Canobie Lake, and all the other small parks.
lokringbob
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Elvis
Elvis would rent the entire park and take Lisa Marie and all of the "Memphis mafia" on all the rides.
What a shame another piece of history Gone! :>(
Elvis would rent the entire park and take Lisa Marie and all of the "Memphis mafia" on all the rides.
What a shame another piece of history Gone! :>(
jasonl
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There aren't many other parks around there, except for one in Arkansas, Holiday World in Indiana and Dollywood in Gatlinburg.
Where does the Cyclone at Coney Island fit into the rating for oldest?
jasonl
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Cyclone was built in 1926 so it's old, but not the oldest. You haven't ridden a coaster until you've ridden the Cyclone.
With Opryland gone, for us it is Magic Springs in Arkansas, or Six Flags in either Kentucky or St. Louis.
Speaking of coasters, I was at Disney World last week and rode Expedition Everest. It was an interesting ride.
Does anyone have any information on the "Crystal Beach Cyclone" it was supposed to be the most intense coaster ever built.
Speaking of coasters, I was at Disney World last week and rode Expedition Everest. It was an interesting ride.
Does anyone have any information on the "Crystal Beach Cyclone" it was supposed to be the most intense coaster ever built.
Crystal Beach was one of the few big oldtime amusement parks in Canada located on the lake near Niagara Falls, there was even ferry service across from Buffalo. I think it closed down about 20 or so years ago. We went once when I was was too young to go on any coaster.
Here's a link to the history of Crystal Beach
jasonl
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The CBC was a cool looking but very painful coaster built by Harry Travers. It closed down for good reason, it broke ribs.
Six Flags, pffft! The only SF park I ever want to go back to is SF over Texas or SF Great Adventure. They ruined Jazzland, Astroworld and many other parks at that. They're the WCI of the coaster community.
Take a ride to Lake Winnie in Rossville, GA. You'll have some fun there. Ghost Town In The Sky is closed for good as well. That would've been a great place to go honeymoon but oh well.
Six Flags, pffft! The only SF park I ever want to go back to is SF over Texas or SF Great Adventure. They ruined Jazzland, Astroworld and many other parks at that. They're the WCI of the coaster community.
Take a ride to Lake Winnie in Rossville, GA. You'll have some fun there. Ghost Town In The Sky is closed for good as well. That would've been a great place to go honeymoon but oh well.
I'm by no means a coaster afficiando and haven't been on one for a lot of years. I think the last one may have been at Expo 86. It was the newer metal corkscrew ones and I wasn't impressed at all. All that harnessing to keep you in, too smooth. I'd take an old wooden coaster anyday
polkanut
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I didn't know that Opryland had closed down. When did this happen? I was there in '92 and had a ball. What a shame.
Opryland was destroyed and the Opry Mills Mall was constructed on the site about 4 to 5 years ago. I refuse to set foot in that mall. Opryland was a really cool small park, with some really unique rides, one of which was a bob sled like coaster ride.
The CBC looks positively evil, I would love to ride it.
The CBC looks positively evil, I would love to ride it.
that is sad .........
god, I hate to see the old amusement parks close, it really saddens me big time. There was one called "WHALOM PARK" next to my home town on Whalom Lake. They use to advertise for a "whale of a time" come to Whalom Park. I can't tell you how many times I, my bro and sis, other family, folks, grandfolks, went there and we have many pictures of my family going there dating back to the very early 1900's. It closed about six or seven years ago after making its 100 year anniversary. My grandparents use to dance there in the huge ballroom to "big bands" that would come out from Boston and New York. My parents met there on the beach at the lake. The hurricane of 1938 which historically is well known and caused major destruction in New England. Most of the tall pine trees in the park fell and the wooden roller coaster collapsed and was rebuilt. I LOVED that coaster. After the park closed, some kids broke in and set the original "ballroom" on fire and it was burnt to the ground. I would like to burn the kids alive who did it. I think that is disgusting. So now there is hardly anything there of historic significance and supposedly the whole thing will be wiped out and condos built. Truly breaks my heart. Thank God, Canobie Lake in Salem, NH is stil around and we got "Six Flags" in western, MA, but the surrounding towns are so trashy/dumpy. The lines at six flags are horrendous and its very expensive yet it draws thousands. I could go on ....... hahahah, but I will stop.
god, I hate to see the old amusement parks close, it really saddens me big time. There was one called "WHALOM PARK" next to my home town on Whalom Lake. They use to advertise for a "whale of a time" come to Whalom Park. I can't tell you how many times I, my bro and sis, other family, folks, grandfolks, went there and we have many pictures of my family going there dating back to the very early 1900's. It closed about six or seven years ago after making its 100 year anniversary. My grandparents use to dance there in the huge ballroom to "big bands" that would come out from Boston and New York. My parents met there on the beach at the lake. The hurricane of 1938 which historically is well known and caused major destruction in New England. Most of the tall pine trees in the park fell and the wooden roller coaster collapsed and was rebuilt. I LOVED that coaster. After the park closed, some kids broke in and set the original "ballroom" on fire and it was burnt to the ground. I would like to burn the kids alive who did it. I think that is disgusting. So now there is hardly anything there of historic significance and supposedly the whole thing will be wiped out and condos built. Truly breaks my heart. Thank God, Canobie Lake in Salem, NH is stil around and we got "Six Flags" in western, MA, but the surrounding towns are so trashy/dumpy. The lines at six flags are horrendous and its very expensive yet it draws thousands. I could go on ....... hahahah, but I will stop.
jasonl
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I've been to SFNE and apart from Superman: Ride Of Steel, it's just a trashy Six Flags park full of ghetto kids.
