| Sep 2, 1946 |
Crystal Beach Cyclone closes forever. Demolition began on 9/16/46. |
| Sep 3, 1909 |
The Hershey Press, a weekly newspaper printed in the Hershey Park printing office, is first published. |
| Sep 3, 1973 |
Columbia Gardens, Butte, Montana, closes after 74 years of operation. |
| Sep 4, 1967 |
Riverview Park closes. |
| Sep 4, 1978 |
Ohio's Chippewa Lake Park closes. Portions of the coaster are still standing. |
| Sep 4, 1989 |
Crystal Beach Park closes. |
| Sep 5, 1910 |
Hershey Park's miniature railway first runs. |
| Sep 5, 1977 |
West View Park closes what turns out to be its last season. |
| Sep 5, 1997 |
A 13-year-old boy is injured while helping his father repair a wood coaster at Stricker's Grove (Ross, Ohio). He was struck by a train and fell through the track six feet to the ground. |
| Sep 6, 1970 |
Coney Island (OH) closes. Taft Entertainment purchased Coney Island, constructed a new park on higher ground, and moved many of the ride pieces to the new location, Kings Island. Today, Coney Island still operates as a major picnic facility. |
| Sep 7, 1916 |
Summit Beach Park Company incorporated. |
| Sep 7, 1933 |
Death of Dudley Sherman Humphrey II, President of Euclid Beach Park. |
| Sep 7, 1997 |
Four passengers on the American Eagle racing coaster at Six Flags Great America are slightly injured in a low-speed collision on the brake run. The train coupler failed between the second and third cars, allowing the train to separate and cars to bump together. |
| Sep 7, 1998 |
Mr. Toad's Wild Ride closes at Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom, Reedy Creek, Florida. |
| Sep 8, 1990 |
Long Point Park, Geneseo, NY, auctioned. |
| Sep 9, 1984 |
The minor collision in the station of two trains on the American Eagle at Great America (Gurnee, Illinois) sends three riders to a hospital. |
| Sep 11, 1887 |
Sliding Hill and Roller Tobboggan opens, Haverhill, Massachusets. |
| Sep 12, 1971 |
The Palisades Amusement Park, located in Cliffside Park, New Jersey, closed its gates for the last time before becoming an apartment complex. |
| Sep 12, 1990 |
White Swan Park, Coraopolis, PA auctioned. |
| Sep 13, 1857 |
Birth of Milton Snavely Hershey, founder of Hershey Park. |
| Sep 13, 1995 |
Milton S. Hershey is honored by being pictured on a United States postage stamp. |
| Sep 14, 1922 |
Aloha Amusement Park opens, Waikiki, Hawaii. |
| Sep 15, 1964 |
Freedomland Park files for bankruptcy. |
| Sep 15, 1968 |
Last day of operation for the Cyclone Racer (Church/Traver) at The Pike, in Long Beach, CA. |
| Sep 15, 1977 |
A tornado rips through Fairyland Park in Kansas City, causing extensive damage. The park never re-opened, but the Wildcat roller coaster survived. It did not run again until it was relocated to Frontier City (Oklahoma City) in 1991. |
| Sep 16, 1946 |
Crystal Beach Cyclone, designed by Harry Traver, is demolished. Some parts of the legendary Cyclone were used in the park's Comet, which today operates at The Great Escape. |
| Sep 16, 1985 |
Roseland Park (Canandaigua, New York) auctioned. The Skyliner roller coaster ended up at Lakemont Park (Altoona, Pennsylvania) where it still runs today. |
| Sep 18, 1902 |
M. S. Hershey's attorney purchases the first of many tracts which will be combined to form the town of Hershey, Pennsylvania. |
| Sep 20, 1964 |
Steeplechase Park, the last of the great Coney Island parks, closes. |
| Sep 20, 1994 |
King's Castle Land Amusement Park (Whitman, Massachusets) auctioned. |
| Sep 21, 1938 |
A hurricane destroys several New England roller coasters, including the Thunderbolt (Church/Traver, 1925) at Savin Rock (West Haven, CT). |
| Sep 22, 1988 |
Death of George W. Long, owner of Seabreeze Park (Rochester, New York). |
| Sep 24, 1993 |
Michael Moodenbaugh, owner of Boblo Island, critically injured in traffic accident. |
| Sep 25, 1925 |
Euclid Beach Racing Derby struck by lightning. |
| Sep 25, 1960 |
Sen. John F. Kennedy and Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson make a campaign stop at Euclid Beach Park. |
| Sep 25, 1995 |
Fire destroys a maintenance building at Williams Grove, Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. The Cyclone suffered roughly $15,000 damage. |
| Sep 26, 1961 |
Death of Harry G. Traver, influential wood coaster designer and builder, best known for the Cyclone triplets at Palisades Park, Crystal Beach, and Revere Beach. |
| Sep 26, 1981 |
Rides and equipment from Edgewater Park (Detroit, Michigan) are auctioned. |
| Sep 26, 1984 |
Hanson's Park, Harvey's Lake, Pennsylvania is auctioned. |
| Sep 26, 1993 |
Final operating day for Boblo Island, Amhertsburg, ON. |
| Sep 27, 1929 |
Birth of Curtis D. Summers (1929-1992), influential wood coaster designer responsible for Hercules, Texas Giant, Mean Streak, and a number of other major wood coasters of the 1980's and 1990's. |
| Sep 27, 1939 |
The Indian Theatre at Blackpool Pleasure Beach catches fire and burns to the ground. Firefighters are able to prevent the blaze from spreading to the nearby Big Dipper. |
| Sep 28, 1969 |
Euclid Beach Park closes. |
| Sep 28, 1983 |
A fire at Dorney Park (Allentown, Pennsylvania) destroys PTC Carousel #38 and several other rides and buildings. |
| Sep 29, 1998 |
In response to a fatal carnival accident (March 19, 1998), a Travis County, Texas grand jury returns nine murder indictments. It is the first time murder charges have ever been filed in a ride accident case. |
| Sep 30, 1952 |
The movie This Is Cinerama, which features footage of the Atom Smasher coaster at Rockaway's Playland, opens at the Broadway Theatre in New York. |
| Sep 30, 1977 |
West View Park announces that it is permanently closed. |
| Sep 30, 1978 |
The National Amusement Park Historical Association (NAPHA) is founded. |
| Sep 30, 1993 |
Investor Larry Benaroya gains control of Boblo Island in court and officially closes the park. |
| Sep 30, 1996 |
Two trains collide on the Eurostar, the Intamin transportable looping coaster, at the Munich Oktoberfest. A block brake at the end of the ride failed to release, causing a following train to collide in the final trim brake. |
Tuesday, September 21, 1999
