Joyland Books

Sorry, not Dreamland, but I thought some of you would be interested in this site that I found:-

http://home.f01.itscom.net/spiral/t_rando/t_rando1.html

Shame it's not in English to understand why it is like that

Dont think theres much to be salvaged there, shame the owners didn't sell of some of the rides when it closed down.

Gary

Had a go an translating it...

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ja&u=http://home.f01.itscom.net/spiral/t_rando/t_rando1.html&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dhttp://home.f01.itscom.net/spiral/t_rando/t_rando1.html%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26safe%3Doff

Best way to tanslate is cut the url from the address bar and open a Google search paste the url you cut cut in to the search bar and hit enter, you should have a page open the give you the option to view the page normally or a translated page.

I use it all the time works 99% of the time.

Nick

Is this JG Ltd abroad ?

Waiting to change use of land.

Alan

Sad and Brilliant pictures

http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfis ... ando1.html

little more of translation with altavista

I love these automatic translation services; they conjure up the most unlikely word combinations imaginable.

There is a rumour circulating in Margate this week that JG has bought an amusement park in the Far East (honest). As the translation service doesn't pull up the words "fire" "redevelopment" or "money" I cannot confirm that this is actually the place...

Sarah

I ran across a similar site while investigating old
rollercoasters a while back (that's how I discovered you larky lot).
It's in the USA and was simply closed about 25-30 years ago.
The trees and such grew up around the wooden coaster and a
very rare TumbleBug ride.
I know the trains from the coaster were a seldom seen PTC
(Philadelphia Toboggan Co.) design and were saved by someone.
Not sure about the Tumblebug (turtle version).

Here's the link:
http://www.defunctparks.com/parks/OH/Ch ... a-lake.htm
Scroll to the bottom.

Here's a link to the entire site.
There are TONS of photos of overgrown rollercoasters and other rides on this site.
Sit down when you have a couple of HOURS to look this over.
http://www.defunctparks.com/misc/textindex.htm

Haunting, stunning pictures, on both sites

I think the main point for me is that it shows how other countries have such vast expanses of land where these well-loved parks can be left in a kind of peace. I would certainly prefer this to rides being torn down and disposed of without a care in the world.

In England, Concrete Mixers would have moved in a before a single rivet had gathered moss and put up the inevitable sign saying "Stunning One and Two Bedroom Apartments For Sale"


Dave D

What's sad is that these wooden coasters were left to rot along with some
other rare rides. if you go to the second site, check out
how many abandoned coaster and ride cars can be seen.

What's a shame is that no effort was made to relocate these rides.
As you can see, we had a LOT of really great wooden coasters.
Still do, and still build them, believe it or not. Once the parks were
closed for good, their fixtures should have been auctioned off
to at least survive to entertain somewhere else.
Some of the coasters in those photos were one-of-a-kind designs and now hopelessly lost.

All these sites make me sad just knowin that they are left to decay! The weird thing I find is that the parks have been there for years and nothings been done with it, not even been redeveloped what makes ya wonder why it was closed and never reopened. It just reminds me of all the Ramsgate Tunnels what interest me so much where all the entrances are, like the nearest one is in St Lukes Park under some slabs.

Link for is anyone else is interested (Page two has alot of good images):
http://www.undergroundkent.co.uk/ramsgate_tunnels.htm

We had some economic crunch here for a while in the 1970's and 1980's
and people were seriously disinterested in amusement parks for a while.
I think many were just scraping by and closed after
"going into the red" as we call it.

Going a little off topic, but according to the site Frontierland Remembered after a good few years decaying plans are moving forwards for a new Morrisions. As people anticipated it looks pretty rubbish.
http://www.frontierland.cjb.net/
Unfortunately there is an odd advert that comes up when I go onto it so I would make sure you have a visus scanner.
It's a good site though!