I was searching the Oklahoman archives and found this ad. Is this same
place as the amusement park? There's no address.
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I was searching the Oklahoman archives and found this ad. Is this same
place as the amusement park? There's no address.
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Yes. The pavilion at Springlake amusement park regularly hosted nationally popular musical acts during its heyday. Doug Loudenback wrote a really interesting book on the history of Springlake; definitely worth a read.
There have been a couple of previous threads about Springlake with some interesting comments.
http://www.okctalk.com/nostalgia-mem...-addition.html
http://www.okctalk.com/nostalgia-mem...pringlake.html
Here's when Wedgewood Park moved from NW 58th and N May.
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I was part of the team that morphed the former House of the former Owner of Springlake Amusement Park into new offices for the soon to be relocated, Vo-Tech occupants, of some refurbished/repurposed old hotel over on Lincoln Blvd. It was one of the most fun projects in which I was ever involved.
(Springlake Amusement Park was the first place I ever encountered, as a child, an actual "Johnny Cash In Concert" poster, tacked to a tree.)
Springlake compared favorably with my childhood impressions of the long-gone "Elitch Gardens" in Denver.
Except it was more authentically genuinely Oklahoman.
(and far better, plus entertaining, than Frontier City, at least in my opinion)
I worked there in my early teen years it was a blast!
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