I grew up in New Jersey and heard a lot of talk from my parents about places that once were popular amusement parks that were closed before or after I was born.
As a child I remember Palisades Park (not the borough, but a former amusement park where Winston Towers now sits in Fort Lee) and the very park Chuck Barris wrote about in a 1962 song by Danny Cannon. That closed in 1971.
Then there is Olympic Park (Irivington/ Maplewood) that ran from 1887 to 1965.
Freedom Land USA (Bronx, NYC) that ran from 1960 to 1964.
Betrand Island in Lake Hopatcong that is now closed but ran even up till the 1980's.
Astroland in Coney Island was but I think was redeveloped by a new owner.
Asbury Park Boardwalk is gone.
Boardwalk and Baseball (Davenport, FL) which is now a shopping center. Closed in 1989 as Anheiser Busch (owner of the establishment) thought it was a flop.
Any others that you heard of or missed? Or any you want to talk about.
Thumb Fun park in Fish Creek (Door County) WI, 1962-1998, turned into condos.
A short list and some links:
Riverview Park (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riverview_Park_(Chicago)), Chicago, closed 1967.
Kiddieland (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiddieland_Amusement_Park), Melrose Park, IL, closed 2009.
Sea World Ohio (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SeaWorld_Ohio), Aurora, OH, closed 2000.
Old Chicago (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Chicago), Bolingbrook, IL, closed 1980.
Boblo Island (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boblo_Island_Amusement_Park), Amherstburg, ON, closed 1993.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_defunct_amusement_parks
Quote from: Brandon on October 31, 2018, 03:02:21 PM
A short list and some links:
Riverview Park (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riverview_Park_(Chicago)), Chicago, closed 1967.
Kiddieland (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiddieland_Amusement_Park), Melrose Park, IL, closed 2009.
Sea World Ohio (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SeaWorld_Ohio), Aurora, OH, closed 2000.
Old Chicago (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Chicago), Bolingbrook, IL, closed 1980.
Boblo Island (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boblo_Island_Amusement_Park), Amherstburg, ON, closed 1993.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_defunct_amusement_parks
Kiddieland was a dump when I was a kid, I'm sure it was downright decrepit by 2009.
I still don't understand why Old Chicago failed when other, similar concepts, such as Mall of America and the West Edmonton Mall, have thrived.
Quote from: abefroman329 on October 31, 2018, 03:16:25 PM
Quote from: Brandon on October 31, 2018, 03:02:21 PM
A short list and some links:
Riverview Park (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riverview_Park_(Chicago)), Chicago, closed 1967.
Kiddieland (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiddieland_Amusement_Park), Melrose Park, IL, closed 2009.
Sea World Ohio (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SeaWorld_Ohio), Aurora, OH, closed 2000.
Old Chicago (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Chicago), Bolingbrook, IL, closed 1980.
Boblo Island (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boblo_Island_Amusement_Park), Amherstburg, ON, closed 1993.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_defunct_amusement_parks
Kiddieland was a dump when I was a kid, I'm sure it was downright decrepit by 2009.
I still don't understand why Old Chicago failed when other, similar concepts, such as Mall of America and the West Edmonton Mall, have thrived.
Execution, lack of anchor stores, and last, but not least, competition from Marriott's Great America (now Six Flags Great America) opened the exact same year.
Geauga Lake (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geauga_Lake) in Northeast Ohio is the first one that comes to mind for me.
In Wichita, Joyland (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joyland_Amusement_Park_(Wichita,_Kansas)) is the one everyone talks about.
A couple that I went to as a kid.
LeSourdsville Lake (later called Americana) near Monroe, OH. Closed in the 1990s. I took my kids there once probably around 1992.
PeeWee Valley - which was a mini-amusement park on the border of Evendale and Reading, OH. I went to many birthday parties there in the 1960s. I think it closed by 1970.
There was one called Fantasy Farm that I think was next to LeSourdsville Lake, but I don't think I ever went there.
Six Flags Worlds of Adventure: the combined properties of Sea World of Ohio and Six Flags of Ohio
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Flags_AstroWorld
I have fond memories of my visit here in the 1970's....
Quote from: Brandon on October 31, 2018, 03:24:28 PM
Quote from: abefroman329 on October 31, 2018, 03:16:25 PM
Quote from: Brandon on October 31, 2018, 03:02:21 PM
A short list and some links:
Riverview Park (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riverview_Park_(Chicago)), Chicago, closed 1967.
Kiddieland (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiddieland_Amusement_Park), Melrose Park, IL, closed 2009.
Sea World Ohio (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SeaWorld_Ohio), Aurora, OH, closed 2000.
Old Chicago (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Chicago), Bolingbrook, IL, closed 1980.
Boblo Island (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boblo_Island_Amusement_Park), Amherstburg, ON, closed 1993.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_defunct_amusement_parks
Kiddieland was a dump when I was a kid, I'm sure it was downright decrepit by 2009.
I still don't understand why Old Chicago failed when other, similar concepts, such as Mall of America and the West Edmonton Mall, have thrived.
Execution, lack of anchor stores, and last, but not least, competition from Marriott's Great America (now Six Flags Great America) opened the exact same year.
How could Great America have been competition? It's an outdoor park. Old Chicago was an indoor park. It's Chicago.
Quote from: US 81 on October 31, 2018, 05:21:34 PM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Flags_AstroWorld
I have fond memories of my visit here in the 1970's....
Still weird that Astroworld is gone. There is one in the Dallas area that just announced its closure. Sandy Lake Amusement Park (http://www.sandylake.com/), in Carrollton, was a small-format park that was a fixture just off I-35E for 48 years. A big part of their business was school field trips, including band and choir groups. I happened to be in one of the band groups in the late 1970s that made a trip up to Sandy Lake. I found out quickly that the tilt-a-whirl would have to go on my never-again amusement rides list.
https://www.dallasobserver.com/arts/sandy-lake-amusement-park-announces-it-is-closing-11286229
The owners sold it to a neighboring landscaping business.
Never went there: Rockaway Playland in New York. It was near the Cross Bay Bridge off Beach 98 Street.
I believe Nellie Bly off the Belt Parkway in Brooklyn has been redeveloped into something I wouldn't call an amusement park but rather a "family fun center" or similar. I remember going there once or twice when it was Nellie Bly when I was a little kid, but I don't remember much about it other than that it was a small-scale amusement park. The rides were smaller and probably better for kids.
My cousins, who lived on Staten Island when we were kids, liked Action Park in New Jersey. I never got to go there either.
My parents still talk about Steeplechase Park at Coney Island.
There are at least 10 abandoned Amusement Park sites in Ohio.
LeSourdsville Lake Amusement Park (Middletown, Oh)
Chippewa Lake Park (Medina Co)
Euclid Beach Park (East Cleveland suburb)
Geauga Lake (East Cleveland exurb)
Idora Park (Youngstown)
Indianola Park (Columbus, between OSU & The State Fairgrounds)
Luna Park, (Cleveland, between Hungarian Village & Shaker Heights)
Olentangy Park (Columbus-Clintonville)
Puritas Springs Park (Cleveland, West Park)
SeaWorld Ohio (East Cleveland exurb)
Shady Lake Park (Streetsboro)
Couple in NC/SC
Ghost Town in Maggie Valley closed in 2002. Supposedly it will reopen next year, but there have been a few failed reopenings in the years since it first closed.
Myrtle Beach Pavilion closed in 2006.
Land of Oz at Beech Mountain closed in the 80s I think.
One with some roadgeek value is Rock-A-Hoola (1962-1990, 1998-2004), now a graffiti-covered landmark along I-15 east of Barstow. Boatload of pics at the link.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/rock-a-hoola-waterpark-2
QuoteSince closing, the faux-50s architecture and waterslides have faded and broken under the unrelenting Mojave sun. vandals and scavengers have damaged most of the buildings and signs, but they still stand, rusting away like some time lost ruin. Visitors and passersby could be forgiven for asking who thought it would be a good idea to put a water park in the desert in the first place.
(https://assets.atlasobscura.com/media/W1siZiIsInVwbG9hZHMvcGxhY2VfaW1hZ2VzL2g0cWVvZTJnNDFuYzk4ZjUwMmYxOTZjZGJmN2ZlXzIwMTcxMTE0XzExMTQwMC5qcGciXSxbInAiLCJ0aHVtYiIsIjEyMDB4PiJdLFsicCIsImNvbnZlcnQiLCItcXVhbGl0eSA4MSAtYXV0by1vcmllbnQiXV0/20171114_111400.jpg)
Dogpatch USA at Marble Falls, AR. Vaguely remember visiting as a child, but it's been closed down for a while, though it seems to continually change hands with grand plans to open back up, only to dramatically fail before anything of substance comes to fruition.
Gaslight Village in Lake George, NY
Rocky Point in Warwick, RI
Mountain Park in Holyoke, MA
Savin Rock Amusement Park in West Haven, CT
Frontier Town in Schroon Lake, NY
The reason WNY kids (and their parents) went across to Canada every summer with their report cards: Crystal Beach...
Two dead amusement parks that I remember:
Fountaine Ferry park in Louisville KY along the Ohio River - I remember that one well from my childhood. I think it closed by the early 70's.
Old Indiana - NW of Indianapolis near I-65. That park came and went so fast that I never got to it. I think it was in the late 80's. I believe there was even a scandal that involved it, but not 100% sure about that.
Quote from: 1995hoo on October 31, 2018, 07:43:50 PM
Never went there: Rockaway Playland in New York. It was near the Cross Bay Bridge off Beach 98 Street.
I believe Nellie Bly off the Belt Parkway in Brooklyn has been redeveloped into something I wouldn't call an amusement park but rather a "family fun center" or similar. I remember going there once or twice when it was Nellie Bly when I was a little kid, but I don't remember much about it other than that it was a small-scale amusement park. The rides were smaller and probably better for kids.
My cousins, who lived on Staten Island when we were kids, liked Action Park in New Jersey. I never got to go there either.
My parents still talk about Steeplechase Park at Coney Island.
There's no way on earth my mother would have allowed us to go to "Traction Park". That looked like an emergency room trip waiting to happen.
Quote from: abefroman329 on October 31, 2018, 06:07:27 PM
How could Great America have been competition? It's an outdoor park. Old Chicago was an indoor park. It's Chicago.
Great America was and is much, much bigger, has bigger and better rides, the capacity for more and bigger rides, and is between Chicago and Milwaukee (why Marriott chose the location in the first place). And, although seasonal, I've always gotten the feeling that Great America was far better run than Old Chicago, and therefore could draw far more customers.
Paragon Park (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paragon_Park) along Nantasket Beach in Hull, MA: closed circa 1984
Pleasure Island (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleasure_Island_(Massachusetts_amusement_park)) in Wakefield, MA: closed circa 1969
Hard Rock/Freestyle Music Park in Myrtle Beach, SC only lasted two seasons. Poor location (Myrtle Beach is a tourism destination in relative decline) and poor management hurt it. Six Flags lost two parks due to Hurricane Katrina (New Orleans directly and Astroworld indirectly [Astroworld's closure announcement came not long after Katrina hit New Orleans]).
Here are a couple in the Finger Lakes region of NY
Roseland Park in Canandaigua. Its antique carousel was moved to Carousel Center Mall (now Destiny USA) in Syracuse. Not sure if it's still in that mall. Roseland closed in 1982 I believe and the waterfront was redeveloped for expensive condos.
Long Point Park which was on the west shore of Conesus Lake. This is still a public park but the rides were removed back in the 90's
Not mentioned yet: Six Flags New Orleans (formerly Jazzland). Heavily damaged and flooded by Hurricane Katrina. Effectively abandoned in 2009 when Six Flags was able to get out of its lease during bankrupcy proceedings. While a handful of movies used the grounds for filming over the past decade, and despite a slew of redevelopment proposals, it remains dilapidated and abandoned.
Quote from: ftballfan on November 01, 2018, 05:27:57 PM
Hard Rock/Freestyle Music Park in Myrtle Beach, SC only lasted two seasons. Poor location (Myrtle Beach is a tourism destination in relative decline) and poor management hurt it.
It also had the dubious honor of opening in May 2008, right at the start of the Great Recession, in a market that had already forced out another amusement park (the aforementioned Myrtle Beach Pavilion) a couple years earlier. That it utterly tanked was not much of a surprise, barely making it through two seasons and changing owners midway.
Myrtle Beach makes Panama City look classy, no wonder Eastbound and Down Season 3 was set there.
I just remembered Dispensa's Kiddie Kingdom.
Santa Claus, AZ along US 93:
(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3943/32670383663_792128fd28_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/RLYfQX)3383986651040 (https://flic.kr/p/RLYfQX) by Max Rockatansky (https://www.flickr.com/photos/151828809@N08/), on Flickr
Quote from: jp the roadgeek on November 01, 2018, 04:15:46 AM
Gaslight Village in Lake George, NY
Rocky Point in Warwick, RI
Mountain Park in Holyoke, MA
Savin Rock Amusement Park in West Haven, CT
Frontier Town in Schroon Lake, NY
Loved Mountain Park when I was a kid, despite how small and scruffy it was.
Quote from: Brandon on October 31, 2018, 03:02:21 PM
A short list and some links:
Old Chicago (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Chicago), Bolingbrook, IL, closed 1980.
I work a stones throw from where Old Chicago used to be. The only sign of its existence is the street "Old Chicago Rd."
I remember as a kid that you could see the dome for miles at night. On a clear day, even from Plainfield.
Buckskin Joe (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckskin_Joe), along the road to the Royal Gorge bridge
Closed in 2010
I remember going to a small water park in Rapid City, SD when I was a kid that has since been leveled. It was at the junction of US 16 and that Truck Route/Relief Route that bypasses Rapid City to the southeast. Looks like there's a Holiday Inn there now and some sort of office building going in (looking at Streetview). I don't remember the name of the place, but looks like it was still intact (if not necessarily open) circa 2013 based on historic aerials.
I enjoyed the one slide that was a sort of simulated whitewater rafting experience. You'd ride an inner tube and plunge down from one pool to the next in a sort of reverse fish ladder.
Adventureland (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventureland_(Illinois)) in Bloomingdale, IL
Quote from: txstateends on October 31, 2018, 07:17:45 PM
Quote from: US 81 on October 31, 2018, 05:21:34 PM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Flags_AstroWorld
I have fond memories of my visit here in the 1970's....
Still weird that Astroworld is gone. There is one in the Dallas area that just announced its closure. Sandy Lake Amusement Park (http://www.sandylake.com/), in Carrollton, was a small-format park that was a fixture just off I-35E for 48 years. A big part of their business was school field trips, including band and choir groups. I happened to be in one of the band groups in the late 1970s that made a trip up to Sandy Lake. I found out quickly that the tilt-a-whirl would have to go on my never-again amusement rides list.
https://www.dallasobserver.com/arts/sandy-lake-amusement-park-announces-it-is-closing-11286229
The owners sold it to a neighboring landscaping business.
I also made a few trips there with band and choir groups in the late '70's. That mini golf course was so bizarre (more fun than I would admit) and that swimming pool was so big, but my middle school self was not impressed with the rides.
It is possible that I still have a band jacket with patches from those contests...somewhere, probably moth-eaten by now....sigh
Original Jacksonville Zoo location was at then-Springfield Park (now Henry J. Klutho Park). www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WMXP6X_Jacksonville_Zoo_Jacksonville_FL
www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM4KMB_Dixieland_Park_Jacksonville_FL Dixieland Park was located on the Southbank and Treaty Oak Park and a hotel are now there.
www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM4PR8_Ocean_View_Pavilion_Amusement_Park_Jacksonville_Beach_FL Before the Jacksonville Beach bandstand, pier, and boardwalk there was an amusement park.
I remembered a couple more....
http://www.aquarenaandralph.com
http://galveston.wixsite.com/rememberingseaarama
Not so much an amusement park, but a corporate picnic grounds with amusement park rides, Hillcrest Park, Romeoville, IL (https://drloihjournal.blogspot.com/2017/12/hillcrest-amusement-park-lemont-illinois-1952-2003.html) I remember going here several times as a kid.
Quote from: inkyatari on November 06, 2018, 04:17:36 PM
Not so much an amusement park, but a corporate picnic grounds with amusement park rides, Hillcrest Park, Romeoville, IL (https://drloihjournal.blogspot.com/2017/12/hillcrest-amusement-park-lemont-illinois-1952-2003.html) I remember going here several times as a kid.
I never went there, but I did go to White Fence Farm several times. I'm surprised White Fence Farm didn't buy the park, they love to provide forms of entertainment for diners who are waiting for a table.
Quote from: abefroman329 on November 06, 2018, 05:02:26 PM
Quote from: inkyatari on November 06, 2018, 04:17:36 PM
Not so much an amusement park, but a corporate picnic grounds with amusement park rides, Hillcrest Park, Romeoville, IL (https://drloihjournal.blogspot.com/2017/12/hillcrest-amusement-park-lemont-illinois-1952-2003.html) I remember going here several times as a kid.
I never went there, but I did go to White Fence Farm several times. I'm surprised White Fence Farm didn't buy the park, they love to provide forms of entertainment for diners who are waiting for a table.
White Fence Farm has gone waaayyy downhill. I really hate their (obviously instant) mashed potatoes. If you want a similar style chicken dinner, drive the 4-5 hours to the lodge at Giant City State Park in Makanda, IL
BTW, the White Fence Farm in Denver Colorado is closing...
More abandoned parks, some Disney:
-Disney's Discovery Island - closed in 1999 due to competition from Animal Kingdom which was much larger; everything has basically been left the way it was because of isolation and strict security
-Disney's River Country - closed in 2002 due to Blizzard Beach opening which was way better; probably gonna be demolished because Disney wants to build a resort in its place
-Ontario Place - kinda sorta closed? Anyone can really waltz in and they didn't really remove much...most likely closed because of attendance; plans for redevelopment or reopening have been in limbo for about five years
-Opryland USA - closed in 1998 because of competition and tastes changing in Nashville; most landscaping remains (river rapids rides, some flora, a giant rock, etc.), otherwise no structures are left
Many of these smaller parks were known as "trolley parks". That is, they were built by trolley companies at the end of streetcar lines so they would get riders on weekends. Where there were once thousands of these, very few trolley parks remain today, though Pittsburgh's Kennywood is one example. As is Dorney Park in Allentown.
One trolley park that closed relatively recently is Willow Grove Park near Philadelphia, which shut down in 1976. It's now a mall by the same name, and I think there's a restored carousel from the original park inside the mall.
For other parks, Ocala, FL had a "wild west"-themed park called Six Gun Territory. It closed in the late '70s, apparently due to the decline in popularity of Westerns. Today it is the "Six Gun Plaza" shopping center.
Hmm, I wonder how many other former amusement parks became shopping centers/malls? Such as Nashville's Opryland, which became Opry Mills. But sometimes they co-existed...
In North Miami Beach, FL, the "Mall at 163rd St." used to have a small amusement park right on the premises, near the Burdine's entrance. This was when back when it was open-air (then called the 163rd St. Shopping Center), and it was only kiddie rides. A train ride circled the park area, which meant that the entrance was "protected" by a crossing gate. This all disappeared in the late '70s, and the mall was enclosed shortly thereafter.
In 1976, in the Omni complex in downtown Atlanta, GA, a hi-rise, indoor amusement park called "The World of Sid and Marty Krofft" opened. The park was, in part, themed around HR Pufnstuf and other TV shows by the puppeteer duo. But I understand the only major rides they had were (1) a carousel with crystal horses, and (2) a dark ride that simulated going through a pinball machine. The park was open for less than 6 months before it folded. Reasons often cited were that it was too pricey for what it was, and that the downtown area was perceived, at least at the time, to be unsafe. Today, the floors occupied by the park are now studios for CNN; the 8-story freestanding escalator used to get to the park's entrance -- I wonder how many people that scared off -- remains in use for studio tours.
Someone else mentioned Old Chicago; I think the only indoor amusement parks that really did well are inside malls. Mall of America near Minneapolis, and West Edmonton are the only ones I'm aware of. I think that Xanadu/American Dream Meadowlands in Northern NJ is supposed to have an amusement element -- this time it's really supposed to be opening next March.
I forgot about Cypress Gardens and not the original botanical garden/ famous water ski shows either. I am talking about the new owner of it who tried to make a go of an amusement park in the early aughts. When hurricanes Charley, Frances, and the other (I cannot recall its name) hounded the state in 04, it got damaged so bad the owners could not reinvest, so it closed and now its Legoland.
Funtown Pier in Seaside Heights, NJ is another one. Sandy destroyed it and the owner decided not to rebuild. The other amusement area (Casino Pier) did rebuild though.
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Quote from: abefroman329 on November 06, 2018, 05:02:26 PM
Quote from: inkyatari on November 06, 2018, 04:17:36 PM
Not so much an amusement park, but a corporate picnic grounds with amusement park rides, Hillcrest Park, Romeoville, IL (https://drloihjournal.blogspot.com/2017/12/hillcrest-amusement-park-lemont-illinois-1952-2003.html) I remember going here several times as a kid.
I never went there, but I did go to White Fence Farm several times. I'm surprised White Fence Farm didn't buy the park, they love to provide forms of entertainment for diners who are waiting for a table.
White Fence Farm has gone waaayyy downhill. I really hate their (obviously instant) mashed potatoes. If you want a similar style chicken dinner, drive the 4-5 hours to the lodge at Giant City State Park in Makanda, IL
BTW, the White Fence Farm in Denver Colorado is closing...
I think it's as delicious as it's always been (I get French fries, not mashed potatoes and gravy), though I go to the carryout location in North Riverside most frequently.
I went to Dell Rhea Chicken Basket a few years ago, tasted like Shake "˜n' Bake.
Well let's see:
Astroworld became a parking lot
Rocky Point Amusement Park (Warwick, RI) is now a state park.
Astroland (Coney Island) is now a new, different park
Mountain Park (Holyoke, MA) is now a concert venue
Action Park went back to being a ski resort
Geauga Lake/SFWOA/Wild Water Kingdom is supposed to become a Meijer
Nara Dreamland in Japan is now condos.
Williams Grove Amusement Park next to the well-known dirt track of the same name near Harrisburg, PA.
I went here as a kid and enjoyed it. Admission was $10, this would have been somewhere around 1999.
Nexus 6P
Libertyland, Memphis TN...
In Kansas City, MO...
Fairyland Park in Kansas City was in operation for more than fifty years. It had that cheap carnival atmosphere if you know what I mean.
I only went there once when I was still in grade school. The bumper cars were my favorite.
Storm damage and the opening of Worlds of Fun pretty much spelled it's demise.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairyland_Park
http://www.kcur.org/post/years-ago-summer-meant-almost-everyone-headed-fairyland-park
Way before my time there was Electric Park. Actually, there were two amusement parks with this name. A young Walt Disney was a frequent visitor to the second park. And a young Walter Cronkite witnessed the fire that mostly destroyed that park in 1925.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_Park,_Kansas_City
On the right is the front and back of a Cypress Gardens brochure; they had a card-like, single page "brochure"; not sure if it's both sides of the same one. On the left are two brochure covers from the (open) Silver Springs near Ocala.
(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4222/34873818595_14cdec12eb_k.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/V8Frhp)Florida brochures, late '70s (https://flic.kr/p/V8Frhp) by Mike (https://www.flickr.com/photos/63151554@N00/), on Flickr