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  • Опубліковано 10 січ 2025

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  • @paulburek7530
    @paulburek7530 6 місяців тому +1

    I remember when I was too short to ride the Racing Whippet.Thanks for taking us on a ride down memory Lane...

  • @joeheid2776
    @joeheid2776 11 місяців тому +2

    "The winds blew sadly through the timbers of the great coasters."
    That quote hits home.

  • @dandoughty5611
    @dandoughty5611 8 років тому +6

    watching West view parks videos makes me feel young again. I watched as they torn it down , lot of years where spent there, and what fun we had!!! Goodbye West View, Goodbye

  • @MrEveready299
    @MrEveready299 3 роки тому +1

    WOW brought tears to my eyes. I went to annunciation grade school and we had our school picnic's there every year. Used to catch the trolly at Robinson's drug store on perrysville ave. on the Northside to go to the park. Thank you for the video and the memories.

  • @joeheid2776
    @joeheid2776 6 років тому +5

    Grew up in West View. Lived on Waverley Ave and saw Danceland burn down. The memory of this is overwhelming.

    • @suzvalentino1901
      @suzvalentino1901 5 років тому +2

      I know Joe I feel the same way, we all had such wonderful memories from that great park.

  • @4501trainman
    @4501trainman 5 років тому +2

    Thanks for sharing this great video of West View Park. I still remember going there with the rest of the Public School Kids in the early 1950's. Many Amusement Parks were called Trolley Parks because they were owned by Trolley Companies. West View was not owned by a Trolley Company,but it was the last Amusement Park in the U.S. served by a Streetcar,the #10-West View PCC #1790 was the one to stop there before Pittsburgh Railways shut down Keating Car Barn for Trolleys.

  • @alllllllllrightythen
    @alllllllllrightythen 5 років тому +4

    I can't believe they demolished the coasters. I just can't. Dip-The-Dips and the Racing Whippet were works of Thrill-Art ( for lack of a word to describe these fantastic machines ). They were designed by a ( many, including me would say, "The" ) King of Coasters, Ed Vettel. He designed 61, only 2 remain, the famous Blue Streak at Conneaut Lake Park, and the Cyclone at Lakeview Park in Colorado. He also designed Idora Park's Jack Rabbit ( lots of great quick bunny hops and sharp turns - also lost ). These coasters were serious coasters with tons of thrills and character without causing too much pain! Ed's son Andrew designed new trains for Kennywood's fantastic Racer and turned the Pippin into the Thunderbolt! This is the kind of mastery we lost forever at West View, and we'll never see it again. Those coasters deserved so much better than to be bulldozed into rubble. I wish Kennywood would have/could have purchased them. They are irreplaceable. I hope we all will go ride the Blue Streak and the Cyclone and not ever allow a bulldozer to go near them. We've almost lost the Blue Steak, many times now. Let's not lose it too.

    • @RobertTurosik
      @RobertTurosik Рік тому

      I'm a young man and at least I got to ride the blue streak at Conneaut lake park before it was bulldozed. I'm from youngstown and you cannot believe how sad people get when you bring up idora.

  • @andytaylor5476
    @andytaylor5476 6 років тому +6

    Trolley cars in Pittsburgh were throughout the city and into the subburbs until they were systematically killed in the 70's in most cities that had them. They were cheap, quiet and clean-electric power. Sad they are mostly gone. Good public transit.

  • @8291Mike
    @8291Mike 9 років тому +6

    really miss it bad. Super sickening shopping center there now.

  • @JUNIATABURGH
    @JUNIATABURGH 5 місяців тому

    Please install the full length 1 hour video of West View Park.

  • @amyperrier1224
    @amyperrier1224 9 років тому +6

    So sad it's gone.

    • @thelaneman2255
      @thelaneman2255  9 років тому +4

      +Amy Perrier
      Agree.It was such a nice park.

  • @tictok9972
    @tictok9972 4 роки тому +3

    Changing times and diminishing crowds and to much going against it as the narrator puts it. This is exactly what I see currently happening with Kennywood. What a blow if we lose Kennywood! West Mifflin is a trash pit as are the other surrounding areas. If this doesn’t improve then we’ll loose the most iconic park in history! 😢

    • @thelaneman2255
      @thelaneman2255  4 роки тому +2

      I do agree.With the direction Kennywood is going I could see this happening there also. :(

    • @kaydub0623
      @kaydub0623 3 роки тому +1

      I doubt it'll happen anytime soon since nowadays Kennywood is operated by a large chain that owns multiple parks across the country. The park is still receiving massive investments and new rides consistently and isn't even close to struggling as much as West View did. If you want to see what a struggling park looks like, go up north to Conneaut Lake. Kennywood also doesn't have any direct competition, so they aren't under any threat of being run out of business by another park. The closest major park to Kennywood is Idlewild, but they're sister parks so it doesn't even matter. Really the only problem the narrator mentioned that West View had that also applies to Kennywood is the landlocked location, but they've proven before that there's ways to work around it (ex. Phantom going through Thunderbolt, Steel Curtain going over the lagoon). Even then Kennywood still has some spaces to expand into. There's a large ravine behind Jack Rabbit and Racer that the park purchased a while back but hasn't done anything with it yet besides using it for storage. The park has also been working on purchasing the housing areas behind Exterminator for a good while now, so that's another space they could expand into. They also own half of the old Kmart lot across the street, and they only used that during 2018-2019 to store the track pieces for Steel Curtain while it was being built.
      TL,DR: Kennywood currently has none of the problems that West View had to run it out of business, so it's probably going to be just fine for a long while.

  • @bobbyplummer4415
    @bobbyplummer4415 3 роки тому

    I lived in Northside remember it well

  • @bengercak8391
    @bengercak8391 2 роки тому

    What's the name of this documentary?

  • @lenkubiak3051
    @lenkubiak3051 3 роки тому

    Alas I never went to West view park