Memories, thanks. Such fond memories. So many wonderful memories. My favorite ride was the wooden roller coaster and enjoyed being an usher at the playhouse. It is 1984! We enjoyed quite a few evening visits in the 80s. Many of these are gone without a trace, but I still see a bridge identified as Mountain Park Road whenever I drive past Holyoke on I-91. On May 28, 1985, a 29-year-old man stood up while riding the Cyclone, and his head hit a crossbeam. It was known as Disneyland of the East. I graduated from Hull High School and lived at the very end of Sunset Point. Great place to go! Somewhere I have an old B&W photo of tiny little me looking up at an elephant in awe. Movie Stars came from California The Three Stooges often preformed on stage I believe it closed in the late 60s. I remember riding the elephant at Bensons. Jim- thanks so much for sharing your fond memories of Paragon Park with the RetroRoadmap readers! Rick- that vaguely rings a bell with me but I dont have any photos. In 1916, park owner George A. In its 96 years, 1985 was the only season of operation the roller coaster has missed. David Goran is one of the authors writing for The Vintage News I remember riding the Virginia Reel 7 times one night! We had a cottage nearby, until the great blizzard of 1978. A great first job! Rosanna Arias/FEMA Tmmertransport med hest langs elva Lera ved Dalseng, som renner ut i Brumunda i Veldre, Ringsaker. Pleasure Island in Wakefield, Massachusetts. Loved the Merry Go Round. Retro Roadmap Photo Archives- Do These Places Look Familiar To You? Now, it's. Ive nothing but great memories of how it used to be around here (sounds of the park were like music to my ears. The later years at Bensons they had Christmas displays. Went there as a little kid driving Rt.2 all the way from Hartford. I had my first kiss on that ride, and a night https://vimeo.com/382437881, Paragon PkSo MUCH fun My Family would go into Boston and take the boat I cant remember what pier but it took about 1/2hr 2 get 2 Nantasket BeachIt was a LIFE time ago the Memorys last FOREVER. External links Paragon Park on the Roller Coaster DataBase. I am 88 and many classmates are gone. i lived in hull for 7 yrs between 1971 and 1978 best years of my life were spent there at paragon park and was sorry when the big developers came in and tore it down what a shame. It was often referred to as Disneyland of the Northeast. There are at least two books published reminiscing about Pleasure Island. Whalom Park was a wonderful place for so many in the 60s. The Lynn Shore and Nahant Beach Reservations will be charged the same new fees. I remember taking the ferry from Rowes Wharf in Boston to Nantasket Beach as a kid. It had a scary ( to me at the time! ) We went there many times. If youre on Facebook you might enjoy this page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Paragon-Park-Memories/103289636409972?sk=wall, Or its sister website: http://www.paragonparkmemories.com/. We used to go there every year for my birthday which is in June! Savin Rock Amusement Park in West Haven, CT, How about the old boardwalk at Revere Beach, Pleasure Island in Wakefield,Ma The Kiddie Ranch Rte 1 Saugus, Ma. The coaster shut down when Paragon Park closed in 1984. All three suffered an electric shock, fatal to both Haithcoat and Robertson. Maybe I might see them again in Heaven. The Giant Coaster, which was built in 1917 and was removed from the park in 1985, is now known as The Wild One at Six Flags America. Trailblazer (1974). A nice man left money to the town I lived in and every year the town would set up the trip to Whalom Park! I still visit Nantasket when I can, thumbing my nose at the condos and visiting the carousel (PTC #85) that they saved and moved down the street. Could hear the train whistle every Saturday from my yard. 2022 Dennis Connors Photography. It was small, but close to home, so we got there often! Please see my listings for other defunct New England Amusement Park shirts. The amusement park closed for good in 1984. A roller coaster ride took a fatal turn at an amusement park in Mexico City this weekend. There are so many memories made at these parks no one will ever forget. remember the steamboat that was just before the park coming into hull?? Had my first date with my future husband at Riverside. A. Schiff & Associates steel wild mouse roller coaster located at Paragon Park in Hull, Massachusetts, USA. By the 1980s, attendance had started to decline, along with the facility itself. Storyland was good as well. Two people are dead and two are seriously injured after the last car on the Quimera roller coaster at the . Quick Description: Paragon Park, which operated from 1905 to 1984 by Nantasket Beach in Hull, MA, was a local amusement park that had many rides including a well known roller coaster, which today is operated in a Six Flags amusement park in Maryland. A scenic railway was added in 1900. The coaster shut down when Paragon Park closed in 1984. Not only did they have the rides which we loved as kids, they had a fabulous summer theater, the Valley Players, owned and operated by Jean and Carleton Guild. Ill never forget Lincoln Park Great Great Memories. Back before we moved to Connecticut in the. As Paragon lumbered along, relatively little changed during the following two decades except the names and locations of some of the rides. Nothing like Paragon Park has ever before been seen near than Luna Park at New York, The Boston Globe enthused, referencing the world-famous amusement center at Coney Island.George A. Luckily they saved the merry go round and youre able to ride on it still in its new location. The two men would face their first challenges early in their tenure. I never saw that girl again. So sad that it is gone. It was in Holyoke, MA, I believe. She convinced me to ride the corkscrew roller coaster and that was the beginning of my love of roller coasters. In fact, a penny would get you a lot in those days, especially in the penny arcade. Now that Im a vegan and animal rights activist, Id hate it. What wouldnt be kept in town, however, were the rides and equipment that now stood in the way of the Plaza at Paragon Park. digital file from original About this Item. Even the repeal of Prohibition in 1933 did little to improve things, although the ability to obtain liquor licenses made it manageable. I still have pictures. They open for the 2022 season on May 28. https://www.canobie.com/. DeNoto, who now lives in New York, states in the suit that he took his boy to the park on June 26, 2018 because the lad was finally tall enough to ride the coasters. Glad to know that the Giant Coaster is still around and can be enjoyed by those who have the stomach for it . Paragon Park is where I spent almost every summer night. I took my children there every Wednesday . Boston Public Library/Tichnor Brothers Postcard Collection, Visitors walking the grounds of Rocky Point State Park today may not realize that they are treading on entertainment history, but the reminders are there if you know where to look. "You can hear cars squeaking and the people screaming," Haraden said in an interview with The Patriot Ledger. Time finally caught up with Whalom Park, however, and not long after it closed permanently, the parks remaining structures were razed to make way for a condominium complex. It was safe and so much fun. The coaster was 1,400 feet long and featured an 88-foot drop. In the photo at right, from June 2, 1942, mechanics who had just finished the annual inspection and repairs to the Paragon Park roller coaster gave it the first ride of the 1942 season. Take a ride down Memory. Whalom Park had it all, Playhouse Theatre where many big names came to preform in summer stock. Touted as the strangest farm on earth, this park was developed by John Benson, a British animal trainer who had originally purchased a 200-acre lot about an hour north of Boston to serve as a temporary home for animals he would buy and sell. Around the same time, the town and the state began buying the property in stages. It is a warm summer day and Paragon Park is busy with visitors. In late 1985, they canceled the development all together, and announced that they would sell the beloved carousel at auction 28 days later. Googling Pleasure Island Massachusetts will yield many fan sites as well as old and new information, not the least of which is a Friends of Pleasure Island website. So sad to hear about the pavillion! I use to go to Lincoln Park in Dartmouth, Ma. The centerpiece of the complex a metal track on which riders raced their horses against each other, based on the old English horse race through the countryside, usually with a distant church steeple as the finish line was only part of the show. It was 1971. No one riding on the roller coaster was injured, Sheth said. The entertainment at the Palm Garden rivaled that in the city; in fact, Paragon was on the same circuit as Boston theaters and showcased nationally known performers in addition to the in-house song-and-dance troupe. He loved the junior rollercoaster! It opened in 1917, closed in 1984. Maybe 1977? I too have fond memories of the place, and even though its a shell of its former self, I cant help but hope it returns to its former glory. Photo: Rich Koppelman. Traveled from CT many times in my childhood. Younger brother Larry, 30, and mother Rose, 73, were left carry on the management of the family business. They also hosted many concerts and special shows! well, all was fine till halfway home and my brother starts getting sick I was on top of my step sister out the window most of the ride home Still great times and I miss when we used to have no cares but having fun.. Paragon Park was an amusement park located on Nantasket Beach in Hull, Massachusetts. Our graduating class of 1950 went there after our senior banquet for a fun evening. Coney entrepreneur George C. Tilyou, one of the most prolific showmen at the turn of the 20th century rivaling P.T. Here are five parks that are gone but certainly not forgotten. Take a ride down Memory Lane! Remember the himalaya ? Larry and Phyllis Stone decided to divorce, and Klayman, caught in the middle of a dispute between the owners, found himself looking for a new job after 30 years. My sister was born early on the morning of July 3rd. My Dad was. the Zoo in GB. Paragon Park on Nantasket Beach in Hull, MA has to be the most beloved old amusement park in New England and one of the top 10 in the country. Lizzie- Myrtle Beach is definitely in the air today as a pal just asked about retro roadmap worthy places to go around that area. It was located off route 5 on Mt Tom in western Massachusetts. Download Go. http://themeparks.about.com/library/coasters/blwildone.htm Loved Whalom park took several girlfriends there. The Giant Coaster, which was built in 1917 and was removed from the park in 1985, is now known as The Wild One at Six Flags America. Oh my those clam cakes. The Summer of 1985 seemed like the longest ever, as day by day more and more of Paragon disappeared. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. I really did enjoy Paragon Park. Great memories. Mountain Park in Holyoke was my favorite, my cousins and I would go there when they visited from Acton. I would show up at the ride with a girl and they would give me a boat all to ourselves. Lost in that fire was much of the holiday inventory of Toy-A-Rama, a seasonal store in Paragons former roller skating rink that competed against the Arcade Bazaar. Tilyous inventions were so commonplace that fun houses of differing sizes became known as a steeplechase.. The last roller coaster-related death in the country was reported in 2007, when an axle on a car broke during a ride in Expoland in Osaka and sent the roller coaster crashing into a guardrail. Ive ridden the roller coaster that was moved from Paragon to Six Flags America, in both of its locations; Six Flags restored a (horizontal) loop at the end that burned and was removed at Paragon. Now its a shopping center. But its not the same. Looff built the parks first merry-go-round in 1892 and another in 1895. Maurer Rides, a company from Germany,. Dodge commissioned the Philadelphia Toboggan Company (PTC) to create a new coaster. There were daily parades and a scenic railroad, too. Our school also had our senior prom there. I recall going to Storytown in Lake George area now a Six Flags. United States--Massachusetts--Nantasket Beach. Almost all of the rides were dismantled and auctioned off. Paragon fans were getting used to the idea that there would be no final season. Then there was the Normandy Room (dancing for the younger crowd) but the definite highlight was the Totem Pole Ballroom if your date invited you to go there, you were on top of the world!! I see lots of amusement parks in RI in this article, but I dont remember driving , but maybe we did go to the one mentioned in Warwick. During the next several months, the town of Hull was in turmoil. There was a coast guard station at lands end and a rather exquisite abandoned nightclub also at lands end. I circled the site, which seemed so big when I was a kid, and realized how small it was, surrounded by chain link fencing now. (Water World had room to expand because both of DCs older parks had closed some years before.) the wonderful carousel at nearby Lake Quassapaug! Within two seasons, however, Paragon was falling short of its financial projections, Eastern Parks investors wanted to abandon the concept. Paddle boats ! In the ensuing real estate crash, the developers would lose control of the property and never realize the plans for a second building at the rear of the site. Flag item for content or copyright That magic of entering the Nantasket Beach area is gone, but at least the magic of The Giant Coaster excuse me, The Wild One lives on. The park reopens for the season April 6. I really loved Lincoln Park.If youre not you made my morning just for letting me remember Lincoln Park!!! Not sure what the weather is like where you are, but weve got snow-a-fallin here outside of Retro Roadmap HQ, so instead of going out on the roads, Im looking backward down memory lane via my own photo collection.I figured Id go back as far as I could in my own collection and start with Paragon Park, circa 1984. spent hours running around the park and laughing! Im now in what you would call the elderly stage of my life (Im almost 77). i miss those days i was took by the state for i was a foster child and never got to say goodbye to my friends schoolmates in hull high or even katie averill my girlfriend at the time, a sad moment for me but as a kid a great way to spend a childhood, delivering the newspapers and even raised the flag at the monument by cumberland farms every morn for the veterans , i was a boy scout in troop 21. oh so many fond memories . During the 1930s, part of the Giant Coaster was rebuilt and a brightly colored Art Deco main entrance was erected in 1937. mod i remeber the blizzard of 78 that was freezing and 27ft snow drift i know i shoveled them to make money as a kid froze my butt of lmao, and delivering newspapers in the winter took its toll on me as well , i agree i foze my arse off. I believe the amusement park in Lincoln Rhode Island is no longer there. Who makes these lists? The roller coaster hit speeds of up to 53 miles per hour during a ride of less than 2 minutes. Aw, I remember going to Bensons Wild Animal Farm! According to the latest fatalities report from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission in 2005, 52 . Ghosts of Paragon Park 1971. A second or was it actually the third? The doll has to be from the fiftys because my aunt died, and she was 81 when she died in 1992. Went there when I was a small child with my father and loved the flying horses. Thank you for the flashbacks! When Rose Stone died in 1969, the park lost one of its most familiar figures and its last link to the days when Dodge was still active in the parks operations. White City on the shores of Lake Quinsigamond between the Worcester and Shrewsbury linesa wonderful memory. Two things come to mind.I will bet all of us have family photo and slide albums, perhaps converted now to disc,of our good old days attending these venuestime waits for no one,but we have our memories..and second; it has always baffled me why Cape Cod,of all places,never seems to have boasted a world class amusement parkit would seem like a natural,but . Waves are just as likely to come from local windswells as distant groundswells, and the best swell direction comes from the northeast. Also had my first date with my future husband at Riverside!! That was a summer vacation treat for us kids in NH. New owners took over after Bensons death in 1943, and although the park still drew crowds, it had up-and-down years for the next few decades. peter; Oh just one more comment,thanks to Larry Stone who put me to work every summer running the flying scooter, flying cages, or the rocket swing,then the lindyloop, A rider suffered head, wrist and ankle injuries on Monday after being ejected from a roller coaster in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. Think classic American road trip and the name Route 66 will undoubtedly come up sooner rather than later, and for good reason. Even though that was in 1984, every time he tells the story he apologises to the poor kid sitting behind him all over again. Great memories and was able to take my kids to a couple of these growing up. I remember Lincoln Park. An Ohio woman who passed out while riding a roller coaster at a southern Indiana theme park later died at a local hospital, a coroner said. I was just remembering visiting Bensons as a kid. Paragon Park was great, noise, lights, smells(mostly good) the ocean, good times. And you can still ride the Wild One wooden roller coaster at Six Flags America in Maryland. As the story goes, were it not for the limited number of months in the year it could be open, Disney would have been more involved. Over the winter, Stone and Golden began working on how they would secure the continuation of Paragon. My late Mom loved the arcade area, especially. Subsequent owners added various entertainments, including a baseball field on which Babe Ruth once played. Chris Haraden lecture - The History of Paragon Park, Official Site of the Paragon Park Carousel, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Paragon_Park&oldid=1135406011, Buildings and structures in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, Defunct amusement parks in the United States, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 24 January 2023, at 13:40. But another group of preservationists began to think about how memories of the park could be saved, and fixed its gaze upon the antique carousel. They tore down the Pavilion the site of many a first kiss and more in the 50s and 60s in Myrtle Beach a few years ago. The coaster itself was shortened in order to be ready by the Fourth of July holiday, with its final circular turns left off the drawing board in the interest of time. Pleasure Beach Ballroom had big bands like The Dorseys (before my time) , but being a product of the 50s I remember seeing Fats Domino and Patsy Cline there. I think fondly of Whalom Park also. It opened in 1905 and closed in 1985. They rehearsed in our barn further down Northampton Street. I still think of it and its thrills in y late 70s. Now 67 Grew up close to Canobie Lake Park and Bensons Wild Animal Park and spent so much time at both. Fond memories! In the aftermath of the April fire, Paragon reopened without its signature front entrance. At the time, it was considered the deadliest. Unfortunately it was replaced by a Six Flags. The storefront includes the workshop of James Hardison, the artist who is painstakingly restoring each of the 66 wooden horses, where visitors can watch the continuing efforts to preserve the remnants of Paragon Park at Nantasket Beach. In late 1984, they accepted Kahns offer. About a dozen years later I . growing up in Nashua, it was an exciting and exotic school field trip in the early 70s. In 1987, Bensons Wild Animal Farm was renamed New Englands Playworld Amusement Park and Zoo, but the rebranding didnt help: It closed for good that same year. Even met my husband. They closed long time ago. Approximately 30,000 theme-park-related injuries occur each year, though not many of those can be classified as "serious injuries," and even fewer end in death. Then we started aging and before we knew it Savin Rock as we knew it was gone, but not forgotten. Beginning with the 1920 season, Stone and Golden took over management of the entire Paragon operation, leasing all of the rides and concessions controlled by Dodge. Location: Massachusetts, United States. Chuck Lawrence. Still remember the black rubber knife I bought as a souvenir. I do recall later that year being able to pick up a trinket or two at Building #19, a local salvage and odd lot shop, but even now the sight of this sign makes me kick myself. In addition to the amusement parks there were shows (I remember seeing Loretta Lynn and others) and they also had auto races on Saturday nights. My cousin owned the pizza shop across the street from the parking lot and lived there. I remember as a young girl with some friends taking the train to Revere Beach Amusement Park in the 50s many times. I have vague memories of Savin Rock in West Haven, CT. Was it destined to become a cornerstone of the casino economy, or was its presence an obstacle to further development? The Giant Coaster opened at Paragon Park in 1917; at 98 feet tall, it was the tallest roller coaster in the world at the time. Mountain Park in Holyoke, MA where I grew up. Kids ride tickets were only 15 cents . I havent thought about that place in years! This article is a stub. Paragon Park Hull, Massachusetts, United States Defunct, Operated from 6/10/1905 to 1985 Videos Maps Parks nearby Defunct Roller Coasters: 6 Location Located on Nantasket Beach. Paragon Park was an amusement park located in Hull, Massachusetts, USA. Lincoln Park, N. Dartmouth, MA We went there all the time as children. Barnum in that regard created a system in which his patented inventions (with cheeky names like Funny Stairway, Earthquake Floor, Third-Degree Room, Cave of the Winds, and Revolving House of Delusion,) became the basis for the fledgling amusement industry in America. Thanks for the article which sent me many, many years back in time. 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