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Silver Beach Amusement Park. Coordinates: 42.1125°N 86.4875°W. Silver Beach County Park is a park located in St. Joseph, Michigan at the mouth of the St. Joseph River. [1] It was formerly Silver Beach Amusement Park, an amusement park, which operated between 1891 and 1971.
It was a private park. Silver Beach Amusement Park: St. Joseph: 1891–1971 Six Flags AutoWorld: Flint: 1984–1994 Tashmoo Park: Algonac: 1897–1951 Toledo Beach Amusement Park: La Salle Township: 1907–1962 Demolished, now the Toledo Beach Marina Wenona Beach Amusement Park: Bangor Township: 1887-1964 Walled Lake Park Walled Lake: 1919–1968
The amusement zone surrounding the Pike, Silver Spray Pier, was included along with additional parking in the post-World War II expansion; it was all renamed Nu-Pike via a contest winner's submission in the late 1950s, then renamed Queen's Park in the late 1960s in homage to the arrival of the Queen Mary ocean liner in Long Beach. 1979 was the ...
First a hotel opened in Silver Beach. It was followed a “White City” amusement park on the lake’s shore, which stood between 1905 and 1916. “They had roller coasters and merry-go-rounds ...
Seabreeze Amusement Park in Rochester, New York, was removed in the 1970s. Ocean View Amusement Park, "Laff In The Dark", Norfolk, Virginia (closed 1979) Silver Beach Amusement Park and the new Silver Beach Carousel in St. Joseph, Michigan (this figure is a modern replication of the Laffin' Sal that used to be at Silver Beach Park) References
Riverview Park was an amusement park in Chicago, Illinois, which operated from 1904 to 1967. It was located on 74 acres (30 hectares) in an area bound on the south by Belmont Avenue, on the east by Western Avenue, on the north by Lane Tech College Prep High School, and on the west by the North Branch of the Chicago River. [2]
Silverwood Theme Park & Boulder Beach Water Park. / 47.9085; -116.705. Silverwood Theme Park is an amusement park located in the city of Athol in northern Idaho, United States, near the town of Coeur d'Alene, approximately 47 miles (76 km) from Spokane, Washington on US 95. Owner Gary Norton opened the park on June 20, 1988. [2]
In 1891 the Silver Beach Amusement Park was opened on land between the lake and mouth of the river in St. Joseph. Logan Drake and Louis Wallace bought the land from the Pere Marquette Railroad and added cottages to lure tourists to the lake front. As the park aged and grew in popularity, the pair added many attractions, including concessions ...