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