After offering ice cream, cotton candy and
wooden roller coaster rides for over 100 years,
the small amusement park saw its last summer season.
There was a look of cheerful hopefulness accompanied
by dilapidated distress in every building, in every
stone walk, in every exaggerated, macabre clown smile.
Defeat was reflected in our gait as we left the park at sundown.
This is sad. Bright red, white and death
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It was actually very sad. Especially how hard they tried to save the park by painting and fixing what they could. All is temporary.
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I love going to Conneaut Lake!
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Both my husband and I have memories of going to Conneaut Amusement Park, so it was with heavy hearts that we visited late this summer, knowing that it would close its doors. Such a beautiful area.
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One of the saddest things I’ve ever read. I suppose the almighty “bottom line” led to their demise? *sigh*
Ron
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Apparently the park has been very seriously mis-managed, sold and re-sold throughout the years. We learned that the park owes $900,000 in taxes, which made for a tragic backdrop to the jars filled with one dollar bills and little hand made signs asking for donations. The air of helplessness was in everything, from the rides to the signs to the people.
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It is very sad to lose these places.
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It is, you’re right.
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Quaint is disappearing from our landscape, only kept alive by historical designations.
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Yes, I believe you’re right.
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Sad that real America is passing. A better vanished time in our history I dare say.
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I agree.
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There’re so many things that have disappeared from our lives now they’re only memories for our generation. I join you in sadness!
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Yes, that’s right.
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Lovely poem. I can vividly imagine the desperation thick as smog, invisible and binding.
It’s sad when places of childhood happiness disappear right before our eyes.
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It is sad. But I suppose there is a time for everything to shine and for everything to fade.
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Strewth, no way!
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Thank you!
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Yes.
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