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  2. Belmont Park (San Diego) - Wikipedia

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    Belmont Park is an oceanfront historic amusement park in the Mission Beach community of San Diego, California. The park was developed by sugar magnate John D. Spreckels and opened on July 4, 1925 as the Mission Beach Amusement Center. [1] In addition to providing recreation and amusement, it was intended as a way to help Spreckels sell land in ...

  3. Flying Turns - Wikipedia

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    Flying Turns roller coaster at Riverview Park, Chicago, 1968. Flying Turns is a specific model of bobsled roller coaster.John Norman Bartlett, a British aviator in World War I, came to North America after the war with an idea for a trackless wooden chute, full of twists like a bobsled course, with toboggan-like cars, based on a bobsled ride that operated in Europe.

  4. Mission Beach, San Diego - Wikipedia

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    Mission Beach is a community built on a sandbar between the Pacific Ocean and Mission Bay. It is part of the city of San Diego, California. Mission Beach spans nearly two miles of ocean front. It is bounded by the San Diego River estuary on the south, Mission Bay Park on the east, and the community of Pacific Beach on the north. A boardwalk ...

  5. Fort Liberty: These Fayetteville-area spots are off-limits to ...

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    Fort Liberty officials updated the post's list of off-limits ... The swimming area located on private property is approximately 150 yards east of N.C. 210 and is off-limits at the request of the ...

  6. Giant Dipper (Belmont Park) - Wikipedia

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    The Giant Dipper is located at the northeast corner of Belmont Park, a waterfront amusement park at the junction of Mission Boulevard and West Mission Bay Drive.The coaster occupies an irregular area about 100 by 500 feet (30 m × 152 m) in size, and is accessed via a terminal structure on its west side.

  7. List of defunct amusement parks in the United States

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    It was a private park. [36] Silver Beach Amusement Park: St. Joseph: 1891–1971 Six Flags AutoWorld: Flint: 1984–1994 [37] Tashmoo Park: Algonac: 1897–1951 Toledo Beach Amusement Park: La Salle Township: 1907–1962 Demolished, now the Toledo Beach Marina [38] [39] Wenona Beach Amusement Park: Bangor Township: 1887–1964 Walled Lake Park ...

  8. These Myrtle Beach amusement parks are closing or changing ...

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    Family Kingdom amusement park will close following the Sept. 6, 2024 weekend. Myrtle Waves Water Park near Broadway at the Beach closed following Sept. 2, 2024. Meanwhile, The FunPlex will finally ...

  9. Liberty Station, San Diego - Wikipedia

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    Liberty Station is a mixed-use development in San Diego, California, on the site of the former Naval Training Center San Diego. [1] It is located in the Point Loma community of San Diego. It has a waterfront location, on a boat channel off San Diego Bay , just west of San Diego International Airport and a few miles north of downtown San Diego .