ChevyVanMiller Posted February 25, 2020 Share Posted February 25, 2020 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eball Posted February 25, 2020 Share Posted February 25, 2020 Blast from the past. Certainly remember going there as a kid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Augie Posted February 25, 2020 Share Posted February 25, 2020 On 2/19/2020 at 1:03 PM, plenzmd1 said: https://www.wgrz.com/article/news/local/fantasy-island-amusement-park-grand-island-rides-to-be-sold-future-in-doubt/71-d638df6f-bb21-4a0b-afb5-4d0b606330f8 Must say was never there, but sure do remember the commercials! I thought the same thing, I didn’t even remember the place existed....until I watched the video. I was there a few times with my parents and sister when we were very young and it was great. The video of the shootout instantly brought it back to me. I also remember some kind of a little train. Did they have the whole train taken over by bad guys or Indians, or was that elsewhere? I think they had a live dinosaur exhibit, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plenzmd1 Posted February 25, 2020 Author Share Posted February 25, 2020 6 minutes ago, Augie said: I thought the same thing, I didn’t even remember the place existed....until I watched the video. I was there a few times with my parents and sister when we were very young and it was great. The video of the shootout instantly brought it back to me. I also remember some kind of a little train. Did they have the whole train taken over by bad guys or Indians, or was that elsewhere? I think they had a live dinosaur exhibit, too. Weird, as we moved to the island in 80...and someone in my family has lived in that house ever since, but i was just never there. By the time i was like 5, brother and sister only wanted to go to Crystal Beach...so that where we went if we went an amusement park. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guffalo Posted February 27, 2020 Share Posted February 27, 2020 On 2/20/2020 at 2:13 PM, Ridgewaycynic2013 said: The wild west shootout was going on when I was a mere pratt of a lad back in the 60s. I think they were different upon opening in that they were a ‘pay one price’ park, Crystal Beach at the time collected tickets on each ride, purchased at booths around the park. I do remember Fantasy Island being big on promoting themselves. My father’s new Oldsmobile had a BIG bumper sticker plastered to it saying something like ‘We Had Fun at Fantasy Island’. My mother stormed off to the office, and someone from the park was soon peeling it off before we left the parking lot. Must be why they switched to annoying kids braying the “Fun? Wow!” slogan on commercials. I remember a similar thing. We pulled up and all got out of the car and as we headed for the gates I watched as my dad was looking back at the car and saw a guy placing bumper stickers on every car in the row. He stops and jogged (I never EVER saw him run) back and starts yelling at the guy telling him in no uncertain terms that he does not want a bumper sticker, nor does he want any Fantasy Island advertising anywhere near his car or kids (I guess dad didnt have the Fantasy Island account or something). I had never seen him get worked up over something so trivial. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ridgewaycynic2013 Posted February 27, 2020 Share Posted February 27, 2020 (edited) 19 minutes ago, Guffalo said: I had never seen him get worked up over something so trivial. Your dad probably had it on good authority just how tenacious the glue on bumper stickers was back then. * EDIT: I wonder if there’s a lot of 70-75 year olds with emotional problems now after having been the ‘bumper sticker crew’ at Fantasy Island in the 60s...? Edited February 27, 2020 by Ridgewaycynic2013 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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