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Old 12-18-2005, 02:19 PM
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Default Old defunct amusement parks

This is a site that i thought was really great all you got to do is click on your state, and it will list the old forgotten amusement parks.



http://www.defunctparks.com/parks/parks.htm

http://members.aol.com/coasting2/contents.html

http://www.reference.com/Dir/Recreat..._Parks/Defunct



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Old 03-01-2008, 11:28 PM
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I vaguely remember going there as a youngster once,sad to see it's in such bad shape these days
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Good info, rustycoin...thanks!
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Good info for sure,...we had one here a long tome ago that I need to research...Thanks for the site...Buster....
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Great sites Rusty, thanks. CanUDigIt and I just hunted an old amusement park/racetrack yesterday!
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thanks for the links! Ive been looking for a few of these and this helps..
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led me to a great map of the chicago 1893 worlds columbian expo-I overlaid onto a google map-soon as the ground thaws-im there.Thanks
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Thanks for the links. Very good information!
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