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A funhouse or fun house is an amusement facility found in amusement parks and funfair midways, equipped with various devices designed to surprise, challenge, or amuse visitors. Unlike thrill rides or dark rides , fun houses are participatory attractions where visitors enter and move around at their own pace. [ 1 ]
The Funhouse is a 1981 American slasher film directed by Tobe Hooper, written by Larry Block and starring Elizabeth Berridge, Kevin Conway, William Finley, Cooper Huckabee, Miles Chapin, Largo Woodruff, Wayne Doba, and Sylvia Miles.
The subject of the film is Seattle DJ and bar owner Brian Foss, who bought into The Funhouse in 2006 and turned it into a venue for both new and established international punk bands. The film chronicles the Funhouse's full history from its early days as Tex's Tavern, to Zak's in the 1990s, and finally reaching its end in 2012 when it was ...
Playland (also known as Playland-at-the-Beach and Whitney's Playland, beginning in 1928 [1] – some say 1926 [2]) was a 10-acre (40,000-square-meter) seaside amusement park located next to Ocean Beach, in the Richmond District at the western edge of San Francisco, California, along Great Highway, bounded by Balboa and Fulton streets. [1]
The funhouse notable for its history and the amount of untouched folk art painted on the walls and on banners inside it. The rotating barrel from which the attraction gets its name is located inside the funhouse. Also inside the building is a maze-like layout in a dark room with mirrors.
The fun house had a gunny sack slide, a spinning disc that hurled people into a padded sidewall and a turning barrel that was nearly impossible to walk through. The carousel, [ 3 ] built by the Philadelphia Toboggan Company , was in service for the entire duration of the park and is still in use at Valleyfair Amusement Park in Shakopee . [ 4 ]
The history of Mardi Gras and its customs is a much bigger story than you may think. For example, did you know why it always falls on the Tuesday before the start of Lent?
Meyers Lake Park In Canton, Ohio (closed in 1974, Laffing Sal is now at the McKinley History Museum in Canton, Ohio) Ocean City Life-Saving Station Museum in Ocean City, Maryland; Pacific Ocean Park Santa Monica, California, where it was known as Laffing Gertrude; Palisades Amusement Park in New Jersey, park closed in 1971, current location unknown