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old Chicago Amusement Park. Many of us scared the daylights out of ourselves and our dates on the rides.
More Photos and Info
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riverview_Park_(Chicago)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/photo/chi-080714-riverview-photogallery,0,2410358.photogallery
http://www.defunctparks.com/parks/IL/riverview/riverviewpark.htm
https://www.google.com/search?q=river+view+park+chicago&hl=en&safe=off&prmd=imvns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=gNeKUOaMIImk8gSGtYCwAQ&ved=0CFkQsAQ&biw=1366&bih=675
Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ot47vAN4HBY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0P6_FAS6TM
Comments from our Facebook Readers
- Craig Harlan Hullinger I was 14 when we went with a church group to Riverview. Bonnie Herald MPHS Jan 66 asked me to go with her on the parachute. I am terrrified of heights, and told her shhe would be too scared, but she insisted that we ride. I was more afraid of being a chicken in her eyes so I rode the thing, scared out of my mind. We survived. So then she said lets go again. So we did, terrifying me some more.
- Charles Horne my brother would scare the crap out of me riding the BOBS...hard to believe it was so big and right in the middle of the city!!!!
- Susan Engle Budash surprisingly, I have very few memories of Riverview. I don't think my parents were into amusement parks...hence we seldom went. I do remember being traumatized at a young age going to the state fair and seeing a half man and half woman. Creeped me out!
- Maribeth Montgomery Kasik My parents "lost" me there when I was about 3? In HS, my friend Brenda Bebb & I used to take the bus there from Beverly... The long bus rides were very educational to say the least. I remember Aladdin's Castle & the Bobs! I remember my brothers going on the parachute drop... Scary...
- Judy Halligan Willingham Well, to hear from another country...I only remember the spinning thing where the floor dropped out and you stuck to the wall. Does anyone remember that?
- Richard Anderer No place quite like Riverview. Had more fun at Riverview over the years than I did at DisneyWorld in '75.
- John Wason My dad got free tickets through his employer every year, for a certain weekend. So we went every year. As an only child, I got to bring one friend each year. What a thrill!
- John Wason Richard Anderer: Disney World as an adult is a bore. And you have to spend a ton of money.
- Karen Holck Ketterman Judy Halligan Willingham I remember the ride where you were stuck to the wall and the floor dropped out from under neath you. Never went on that, saw too many people get sick afterwards.
- Marilyn Smithson Losik I remember the Rotor well. It wasn't nearly as scary as I thought it would be. I never found Disney World to be a bore, even going without children. It does, however, require at least one ton of money.
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