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Author : Jim Futrell
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 21,29 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780811726719
A comprehensive guide to 13 parks in the state, complete with information on rides and attractions. Packed with vintage postcard images and photos.
Author : Jennifer Sopko
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 1 pages
File Size : 18,18 MB
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 1467119547
Idlewild and SoakZone has charmed people across Western Pennsylvania and beyond since the late 1800s. The park was developed by Pittsburgh's Mellon family as a picnic grove to boost traffic on the Ligonier Valley Rail Road. When C.C. Macdonald took the helm in 1931, rides, entertainment and other attractions came to Idlewild over the next half century, along with the adjacent Story Book Forest. After joining the Kennywood family of amusement parks, Idlewild added a Wild West town, Mister Rogers' Neighborhood of Make-Believe and a water slide complex. Author Jennifer Sopko tells the heartwarming history of a Pennsylvania amusement park that continues to delight generations of families.
Author : Jim Futrell
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 13,36 MB
Release : 2002-05-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780811720007
Author : David Witoslawski
Publisher :
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 23,15 MB
Release : 2013-12-10
Category : Amusement parks
ISBN : 9780615937373
This book focuses on those great memories and experiences you can only get in an amusement park. Our attention will be on Pennsylvania parks and rides that have pleased riders for generations, along with covering some newer rides in those parks. Also included are some interesting state landmarks within a close vicinity of the covered amusement parks to give you a good blueprint for a getaway. Included are interviews with some very important people in the amusement park industry and many photos. Featured parks include Dorney Park, Hersheypark, Kennywood, Waldameer, Lakemont Park, Conneaut Lake Park and DelGrosso's.
Author : Rachel E. Smith
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 27,23 MB
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 1467104655
At one time, Western Pennsylvania was home to dozens of small amusement parks, many of them trolley parks. These parks, originally designed to bolster streetcar business, were a way for workers to seek respite from the crowded, dirty cities. While some of these parks never developed into much more than a dance hall and a merry-go-round, others became full-scale amusement parks with rides, entertainment, and other amusements. After years of battling floods, changing economies, the decline of streetcars, and competition from other amusement parks, many of these amusement parks ended up closing their gates for good, the thrills they once provided now relegated to memories. With many of these parks all but lost to time, it is time to take a look back and remember some of the most prominent lost amusement parks of Western Pennsylvania.
Author : Charles J. Jacques
Publisher :
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 14,83 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780961439224
Author : Jim Hillman
Publisher : Shire Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 29,84 MB
Release : 2013-05-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780747812098
America's amusement industry emerged from simple swimming ponds, family picnic areas, and community gathering spots. Although the first major entrepreneurial-driven amusement resort, known as Jones Woods, grew from the banks of New York's East River in the 1800s, the Golden Age of American amusement parks began with the mid-1800s development of a Brooklyn peninsula into "America's Playland": Coney Island. Coney Island also paved the way for other developments, including America's oldest continuously operating amusement park, Lake Compounce in Bristol, Connecticut, and the defunct Rocky Point Park in Warrick, Rhode Island. By 1893, and the opening of the Chicago World's Columban Exposition, Americans were becoming familiar with the marvels of the midway. By the early 1900s, amusement parks dotted the landscape and several larger cities had more than one commercial park. Many of these parks became the stuff of lasting memories, icons of America: Playland Park in San Francisco, Elitch Gardens in Denver, Riverview in Chicago, Riverside in Indianapolis. Many of America's grand amusement treasures have vanished, and many other parks are struggling for survival. But while many of the parks have disappeared, amusement park memories are alive and are firmly part of nostalgic America. As long as the clatter of the old coaster cars fosters nervous anticipation and the thumping of the carousel band organ remains, there will be a market for these American classics. With thoroughly researched text and historic images, author and park enthusiast Jim Hillman captures the sights, smells, and vitality of America's grand amusement park traditions.
Author : Dale Samuelson
Publisher : Motorbooks International
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 50,22 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Amusement parks
ISBN : 0760309817
A photographic retrospective covers more than 100 years of images from the history of the American amusement park.
Author : Michael E. Costello
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 14,43 MB
Release : 2005-06-15
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1439616132
In 1877, a humble boat landing was constucted on Conneaut Lake, Pennsylvanias largest natural lake. Colonel Frank Mantor, a visionary, discovered and purchased the property and convinced investors from the Pittsburgh, Shenango, and Lake Erie Railroad to extend the railroad line to a newly built resort on the site. In 1892, Exposition Parka permanent fair exhibiting machinery and livestockwas founded. Amusement rides were added alongside hotels, cottages, restaurants, and other businesses. The resort grew into an amusement park and was renamed Conneaut Lake Park in 1920. Conneaut Lake Park illustrates the evolution of this lakeside resort with images of long-gone attractions such as the Hotel Elmwood, Temple of Music, Jungle Cruise, Fairyland Forest, and Wild Mouse. Recent favorites such as the Blue Streak, Tumble Bug, Ultimate Trip, and Devils Den are also included.
Author : Source Wikipedia
Publisher : Booksllc.Net
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 30,41 MB
Release : 2013-09
Category :
ISBN : 9781230776187
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 97. Chapters: Canobie Lake Park, Cascade Park, New Castle, Pennsylvania, Chutes Park, Clementon Amusement Park, Coney Island, Contoocook River Amusement Park, Council Crest Park, Dorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom, Eldora Park, Electric Park, Detroit, Euclid Beach Park, Excelsior Amusement Park, Fontaine Ferry Park, Glen Echo Park, Maryland, Historic Bushkill Park, Idora Park, Kennywood, Lakemont Park, Lake Compounce, Lincoln Park (Dartmouth, Massachusetts), Luna Park, Arlington, Luna Park, Cleveland, Luna Park, Pittsburgh, Luna Park, Scranton, Midway State Park, Mountain Park (Holyoke, Massachusetts), Norumbega Park, Oaks Amusement Park, Ocean View Amusement Park, Olentangy Park, Palisades Amusement Park, Paxtang Park, Playland (San Francisco), Ponce de Leon Park, Quassy Amusement Park, Ravinia Festival, Riverside Amusement Park (Indianapolis), Rocky Glen Park, Seabreeze Amusement Park, Suburban Gardens, Waldameer Park, West View Park, Whalom Park, White City (Indianapolis), White City (Shrewsbury, Massachusetts), Wildwood Amusement Park, Willow Grove Park, Wonderland Amusement Park (Indianapolis). Excerpt: Kennywood is an amusement park located in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Pittsburgh. The park first opened in 1898 as a "trolley park" attraction at the end of the Mellon family's Monongahela Street Railway. The park was purchased in 1906 by F. W. Henninger and Andrew McSwigan and thus began the Kennywood Entertainment company that has remained a closely held family business for over 100 years. This traditional amusement park still has structures and rides dating back to its opening and the early 1900s. Along with Rye Playland Park, it is one of only two amusement parks listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Kennywood is owned by Kennywood Entertainment Company, which until December 2007 was a closely...