Cleveland Amusement Park Memories

A Nostalgic Look Back at Euclid Beach Park, Puritas Springs Park, Geauga Lake Park, and Other Classic Parks

David & Diane Francis

$19.95

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Description

Northeast Ohioans who grew up visiting amusement parks in the 1940s through 1970s will cherish the memories captured in this book, which includes Euclid Beach Park, Luna Park, Geauga Lake Park, Puritas Springs Park, White City, Memphis Kiddie Park, Geneva-on-the-Lake, and others.

Those boisterous, colorful, exciting meccas fulfilled the fantasies of entertainment-hungry Clevelanders. Each park had its own personality, its own alluring smells and sounds. At Euclid Beach it was the stately sycamores and the unforgettable odor of the lake and of damp earth beneath the pier. At Puritas Springs, the odor of warm oil on the chain of the Cyclone coaster. The chatter of Monkey Island at Luna Park, the sharp reports of the Shooting Gallery at Geauga Lake.

David and Diane Francis, authors of several books on amusement park history, including “Cedar Point: The Queen of American Watering Places,” draw on their own extensive archive and on the memories of fellow park buffs to create a vivid, nostalgic portrait of days gone by.

Additional information

Weight0.83 lbs

Table of Contents

Introduction

Euclid Beach Park

Luna Park

Geauga Lake Park

Puritas Springs Park

Cleveland’s Other Parks

White City

Memphis Kiddie Park

Geneva-on-the-Lake

Cleveland Zoo Kiddie Park

Acknowledgments

For Further Reading

Photo Credits

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