Sigh! It makes me long for the days of my amusement parks of old. Living in PA, you don't have beaches close, but you go to amusement parks locally. We used to have four of them when I was little, White Swan which was on our way to the airport, West View - which I lived about 15 minutes from, and watched steadily go downhill till the early '80s, Idlewild which was over an hour but had this neat old park beside it called 'Storybook Forest' with Mother Goose lifesized displays that you could walk through, and Kennywood Park, which was about 45 minutes from where I grew up. West View was within walking distance from my aunt and uncle's house and it was famous for the Dips. Kennywood is still there, and still tops on the ACE list (American Coaster Enthusiasts) though the undesirable kids, the lines and the prices have made it off limits for families to go; And Idlewild is still there, much bigger, a half hour from where I live (we love it), and now voted the Number One Kids Park in America (But, honestly, I think the bees voted that one, because you can't get near garbage cans due to the infestations!)
I'm glad some of those places are still there, but I miss going 'round the sharp bend in the road that the Dips at West View abutted, and watching the people fly past us in the coaster cars. Sadly, some things you can never get back...
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2011-08-30 03:04 am (UTC)I'm glad some of those places are still there, but I miss going 'round the sharp bend in the road that the Dips at West View abutted, and watching the people fly past us in the coaster cars. Sadly, some things you can never get back...