Willow Grove: A Short Retrospective

[The Interpreter]

http://www.philly.co...rated_past.html

Be sure to click the photo to open the slide viewer. Don't miss the second slide.

Sigh.

I often wish there had been an Internet back then, or at least that parks and rides had been taken more seriously as a subject for history and social study. This is one of the places I might have gotten to, had I even known it existed. See also Riverview, in particular...sigh.

[Purplehaze]

I have a friend who grew up in that area I am gonna ask him if he has pics of it.

And there was an internet it started in 1957 However the home user it did not surface until the 80's

[The Interpreter]

Even if we accept that date (which I don't, Sputnik was in 1957 and ARPA began in 1958), I still predate the Internet.

Sigh!

[Purplehaze]

I am pretty close to it Terpy And yes the internet was back then just not as we know it. I remember in the late 80's we had compuserve but it is not the internet we have today in no way shape or form

[The Interpreter]

Actually, in the mid-Sixties I was using the predecessor of the Internet at Morehead State what was then College in Kentucky, but that's a story for another place and time. With IBM punchcards, no less.

[CoastersRZ]

The second slide touts that the park was once dubbed "America`s Finest Amusement Park." A slogan that Coney Island here in Cincinnati also used!

[Purplehaze]

My nephew was a Professor at Moorhead once upon a time..

here is more on Willow. http://www.arcadiapu...le.html?id=1790

Then type this in yahoo search engine images, tons of pics there. Pennsylvania's Willow Grove Amusement Park