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The site of a small amusement park opened in the early 1920s and included a small wooden roller coaster. A larger wooden roller coaster was built in its place in 1950. The coaster was destroyed by tornado force winds in July 1977 and was the beginning of the end for the park. Marshall Hall as an amusement park closed in 1980.
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1890s–1920s Also known as North Beach Amusement Park Gaslight Village: Lake George: 1959–1989 Golden City Canarsie, Brooklyn: 1907–1939 Hoffman's Playland: Latham: 1952–2014 Indian Point Amusement Park: Buchanan: 1923–1950 Kiddie-Park Howard Beach, Queens: 1952–1990s Kiddieland Oceanside: 1953–1976 Also known as Jazzbo-Land Land ...
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 northeastern part of the amusement park became the West Farms Depot of MTA Regional Bus Operations. A city park, operated by the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, was built in the late 1950s as part of the construction of the Sheridan Expressway. The highway was built parallel to the Bronx River on the former site of the ...
As the park added more attractions, it became so famous by the 1920s that the Borough of Palisades Park, located just west of the amusement park, considered changing its name to avoid confusion among amusement park visitors. In 1928, the park introduced the Cyclone roller coaster, the third of Harry Traver's "Terrifying Triplets". Due to the ...
The amusement park's popularity peaked during the 1940s. In the late 1950s, attendance declined while the commercial value of the land increased. The park closed on Labor Day, 1970. The pumping system from the swimming pools remains installed, and is used to pump drinking water to the residents of Hayden Island.