Next on our tour of abandoned amusement parks is Joyland in Wichita, Kansas. First founded in 1933 to display a miniature train, then moved locations in 1949 to the place it still stands today. In the early 1970s, the Ottaway family sold the park to Stanley and Margaret Nelson, who added the majority of the rides that still stand today.
Joyland closed in 2004 for both economical and safety concerns. It briefly reopened for the 2006 season when the T-Rex Group leased the park and did some renovations. It has sat empty since 2006, with only vandals and arsonists and urban explorers visiting the site. Locals have started an aggressive campaign to raise funds to restore the park, and were recently granted tax-exempt status. The park includes many historical relics, including the last standing wooden roller coaster by the famous Philadelphia Toboggan Company; the last Wacky Shack to be built by designer Bill Tracy (only...
Joyland closed in 2004 for both economical and safety concerns. It briefly reopened for the 2006 season when the T-Rex Group leased the park and did some renovations. It has sat empty since 2006, with only vandals and arsonists and urban explorers visiting the site. Locals have started an aggressive campaign to raise funds to restore the park, and were recently granted tax-exempt status. The park includes many historical relics, including the last standing wooden roller coaster by the famous Philadelphia Toboggan Company; the last Wacky Shack to be built by designer Bill Tracy (only...
- 1/14/2014
- by Alyse Wax
- FEARnet
Eleanor Mondale Poling was many things - Sarah Lawrence graduate, actress, TV personality and radio deejay. She was also the daughter of former Vice President Walter F. Mondale and, since their wedding in 2005 until her death from brain cancer early last Saturday, the loving wife of musician and composer Chan Poling. "She passed way peacefully in her own bed, looking out at the pasture. There was a completeness and peace to the whole thing," Poling told People at the couple's horse farm outside of Minnesota's Prior Lake, 25 minutes southwest of Minneapolis. Eleanor had called the place home since 2003, when she moved there from New York.
- 9/21/2011
- by Stephen M. Silverman
- PEOPLE.com
At the Peking Union Medical College Hospital, family members are standing vigil at Barbara Bachman's bedside as she recovers from a stabbing attack that killed her husband Todd and sent shock waves through the U.S. Olympic men's volleyball team. "It hurts. It's something no one should have to go through," says the team's head coach, Hugh McCutcheon, who is the Bachmans' son-in-law. "Anger is not an emotion I will allow myself to indulge in." As Barbara's condition was upgraded to "serious but stable," the team continued to play, and win, in Beijing – all without McCutcheon, 38, who is married to the Bachmans' daughter,...
- 8/12/2008
- by Mike Fleeman
- PEOPLE.com
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