Love or hate the place, Morecambe continues to rear its head on these message boards in one form or another...
How many of you are aware that Morecambe's Frontierland was once considered for a Pasaje del Terror attraction like the one that now resides at BPB?
Three years ago I was lucky enough to interview Ed Marzola for BITSoftheBEACH..Reading between the lines the writing was probably already on the wall for the park...
"We first went to Blackpool sometime in 1993, and met with Geoffrey Thompson and David Mercer of the Blackpool Leisure and Amusement Consultancy Ltd.
We did not sell the Pasaje at that time because they did not have the space for it at the park itself. I am happy to see that Blackpool has finally installed one.
We went there many times trying to convince Geoffrey Thompson (now Sir Geoffrey) to have one in the park, but all we got was a lukewarm reception and the suggestion to install it in Morecambe, which compared to Blackpool is a rather sad seaside place without the traffic of the main park...On a field trip to Morecambe we determined that the flow of public would not be enough to sustain its commercial operation. "
I reckon if the Pasaje and the intended monorail had got the green light then perhaps...perhaps.. Morecambe would still be boasting a park to be proud of....
http://hometown.aol.co.uk/themagiceye/churchstreetrevisitedpage1.html