Cleveland Amusement Park Memories A Nostalgic Look Back at Euclid Beach Park Puritas Springs Park

Disocver classic lost and historic amusement parks of Northeast Ohio from the 1940s through 1970s--most now long gone, including ...

• Euclid Beach Park
• Luna Park
• Geauga Lake Park
• Puritas Springs Park
• White City
• Memphis Kiddie Park
• Geneva-on-the-Lake
• and more!

Those boisterous, colorful, exciting meccas fulfilled the fantasies of entertainment-hungry Clevelanders. Each park had its own personality, its own alluring smells and sounds. At Euclid Beach it was the stately sycamores and the unforgettable odor of the lake and of damp earth beneath the pier. At Puritas Springs, the odor of warm oil on the chain of the Cyclone coaster. The chatter of Monkey Island at Luna Park, the sharp reports of the Shooting Gallery at Geauga Lake.

David and Diane Francis, authors of several books on amusement park history, including "Cedar Point: The Queen of American Watering Places," draw on their own extensive archive and on the memories of fellow park buffs to create a vivid, nostalgic portrait of days gone by.