Pennsylvania Amusement Parks Books
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Amusement Parks of Pennsylvania
by Jim Futrell, Tim O'Brien
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Pennsylvania is home to many classic amusement
parks. This book begins with a concise history of the
PA amusement parks. A comprehensive guide to 13 parks
in PA. Featured parks: Williams Grove Amusement
Park, Mechanicsburg Idlewild
and Soak Zone, Ligonier Dorney Park and Wildwater Kingdom,
Allentown Conneaut Lake Community Park, Conneaut Lake
Lakemont Park, Altoona Waldameer
Park and Water World, Erie Kennywood, West Mifflin
Bushkill Park, Easton Hersheypark, Hershey
DelGrosso's Amusement Park, Tipton Knoebels Amusement
Resort, Elysburg Dutch Wonderland, Lancaster Sesame Place,
Langhorne
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Kennywood by David
P. Hahner Jr., Carl O. Hughes
- For more than a century, Kennywood has been the
Pittsburgh area’s playground. Kennywood is
unique in that it is one of the country’s
few successful trolley parks. Kennywood is perhaps
best known for its impressive collection of roller
coasters, from earlier coasters such as the Figure
Eight, Speed-O-Plane, and Pippin to the Racer, Jack
Rabbit, Thunderbolt, and Phantom’s Revenge
coasters that still thrill riders today.
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Indian Trail and Edgemont Amusement
Parks by Sean Billings, Johanna S. Billings
- Indian Trail and Edgemont Amusement Parks highlights
the history of two legendary amusement parks in
Pennsylvania Lehigh Township. Photographs of Edgemont
Park recall its days as a trolley park, started
by the Blue Ridge Traction Company. These images
are sure to bring back memories of the rides, games,
and thrills that kept people coming back year after
year.
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Conneaut Lake Park
(Images of America) by Michael E. Costello
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Park—a permanent fair exhibiting machinery and livestock—was
founded. Amusement rides were added alongside hotels, cottages,
restaurants, and other businesses. The resort grew into
an amusement park and was renamed Conneaut
Lake Park in 1920.
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