Springlake

[Prunepicker]

I was searching the Oklahoman archives and found this ad. Is this same
place as the amusement park? There's no address.

[Urbanized]

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.

[Prunepicker]

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.

Cool. Thanx.

[ljbab728]

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

[Prunepicker]

Here's when Wedgewood Park moved from NW 58th and N May.

[RadicalModerate]

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)

[grantgeneral78]

I worked there in my early teen years it was a blast!

[Larry OKC]

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....

Is the complete Springlake Campus of MetroTech relocating or just offices? I got my training in my current career there and thought it was a beautiful campus.