Vol. 12 · No. 4 The Member's Guide to the Park Est. 1958

AMUSEMENT TIMES

Your Ticket to Fun

PUBLISHED FOR OUR VALUED PARK MEMBERS & FRIENDS

Cover Story

Closed for the season — back when the leaves fall.

Our operating season runs strictly wintertime. Why? Because in the summer you ought to be at the park, not on a computer. So while the coasters are running out there, we're in here keeping the archive — every trip, every ride, every park we've wandered through, saved for the day we want to remember it. Come by this winter and stay a while.

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From the Editors

WHO WE ARE & WHY WE'RE DOING THIS

We're just a couple of folks who like amusement parks a little too much — the old wooden coasters, the trolley parks that barely made it into this century, the ones that closed without much warning. We started keeping a record of every park we visit: the pictures, the rides, the little details you forget after a season or two.

Parks close. Rides get pulled. Seasons end. This is where we keep it all so it doesn't disappear — for us, and for anyone else who wants to remember a place the way it was. See you out there this summer, and see you in here come winter.

In This Issue

FOUR STOPS AROUND THE PARK

PARKS

Every park we've visited, all in one list — click into any one of them for its own page of rides, pictures, and stories from the day.

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RIDE & PARK HISTORY

From the first carousel to today's midway, a scrapbook of how each park was built, ride by ride, decade by decade.

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THOUGHTS FROM...

Our honest take after every visit — the best snack stands, the shortest lines, and the rides worth the wait.

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