Western Playland amusement park opened with eight rides on 15 acres at Ascarate Park. May 28, Labor Day weekend, 1960.

Fresno’s Playland park is days away from closing it gates — again. The nearly 70-year-old children’s theme park announced earlier this month that its current operator, Helm and Sons ...

Western Playland amusement park opened on May 28, 1960, at Ascarate Park in El Paso, Texas. Western Playland moved to Sunland Park, New Mexico in 2006 after facing difficulties expanding at its ...

Commissioners dwindled down the five names to three: Fog Line, Playland Park, and Sunset Dunes. Playland Parkway was modified to Playland Park in the final vote. Commissioner Larry Mazzola and ...

Daddy’s Little Park “Daddy loves his parks.” Playland Park by the Beach “Obviously, nothing is left to really remind of these times in the city’s history, yet Playland must have been an ...

Photo by Junyao Yang on Dec. 31, 2023. Another 160 submissions or so seek to commemorate Playland at the Beach, a historical amusement park along the Great Highway which opened in the 1920s and was ...

More than 32 rides, including a Ferris wheel, make Playland's Castaway Cove stand out on the Ocean City Boardwalk. The amusement park has been operating for more than 60 years and has developed a ...