It's always nice to see when an old amusement park is remembered by its community, even decades after its closure. West View Park, which we took a brief look at yesterday (HERE), has found this in the form of a community center and library, called the "Hub," located in an old bank. It just opened this year, and since the amusement park was such a big part of the town long ago, several artifacts pay tribute to it.
This was the coolest thing for me - the old mural that was in the station of the park's biggest roller coaster, the Dips. This detailed picture of the ride has lightbulbs that would indicate to the operators which point the train was at along the track. The sign has been in storage for years, but it's finally returned, working lights intact!
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| A work in progress is this mural of the park's old "Alpine" Sky Ride. |
This car was part of a kiddie-Turnpike-styled ride in the park's Kiddieland area, and a picture of the old cars can be seen in the deli across the street.
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| And of course, the ubiquitous amusement park height requirement sign |
4 comments:
Oh wow! Today's post is really great. I love that mural of "The Dips" with light bulbs to show the status of the coaster train along the track. What a great piece of amusement park history. The kiddie turnpike car is really cool too. Even the headlights are lit.
What a great idea to open a community center and library and theme it to West View Park. Hopefully some of he community's citizens can contribute to the center with some of their own memorabilia and photos of the park.
Nice post. Thanks, Andrew.
So cool!
It really is awesome. If only this could be done for every defunct park across the country!
Since the park is no longer standing, I'm glad to see that at least some pieces of it were saved and re-purposed, to remind people that the park did exist!
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