I always wanted to go.
Posted on 08/23/2018 12:15:31 PM PDT by NRx
Old film of fair scenes at Palisades Amusement Park in New Jersey, USA on May 14, 1932. These scenes were taken with early Movietone sound cameras. This kind of setting is frequently depicted in Hollywood movies but it's rare to see it for real!
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Chicagoans had similar experiences at Riverview Amusement Park (torn down in 1967).
I always wanted to go.
I have that song burned into my memory from years of it playing on WABC- AM. Good times. :)
I was at City College of New York (CCNY) in 1971, just across the Hudson River from Palisades Amusement Park. I remember some kind of huge fire that took place - there were large columns of smoke going up to the sky that we could see from New York.
Someone told us students that it was the amusement park burning down. Now, I’m not so sure.
Wow. I wonder who was the last teenager to wear a suit and tie on a roller coaster?
You aroused my curiosity. It seems it just died a slow death. The property was bought from the heir-less surviving owner, and eventually they developed upscale high rises on the palisades side of the Hudson in Ft Lee.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palisades_Amusement_Park
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