My family would go there in the early 60's! Got some pictures, black n white of course, of of us 4 kids riding in the kiddie ride section! Course the tilt a whirl was my favorite! Years later as a teenager, my sister and I got stuck at the top of the ferris wheel!!!! Seemed like forever to get back down! Never rode one since😊 good wholesome memories! So was Kiddie Land , they gave away baby chicks dyed in pastel colors for Easter, anyone remember that? Showing my age, lol!
@@AUTOPSY666nah, most of the pieces from it went to miscellaneous restaurants and bars around town. Nitro ice cream place off Woodlawn and Kellogg has a ton of wreckage from it
I went in the 60’s and 70’s as a kid, then took my kids in the mid-90’s. Makes me sad that it’s not there. All we have are faded memories from several generations
I worked there from 1972 until the end of the Summer in 1976. My best friend ran the Go Cart track all the time and I was regulated to running the rides and I could run everything in the park by the time I left. Good times. The Nelson's were great folks and I don't think I even picked up my last check from them when we moved away.
This place holds a heart full of memories for me. My brother and I haunted the park regularly from 1955 to 1962. We absolutely could not wait for 99 cent day to roll around once a month in the summer. I did not see any pictures from the “Old West” part of the park where you could get a Sarsapirilla or watch a shoot out. I also missed seeing the “Ghost House!” Thank you for this wonderful montage of warm fuzzies.
I lived in the neighborhood across the field from Joyland. Every summer in the 80's I would hear the screams from people riding the roller coaster. Such great memories.
I'd say my favorite Joyland memories are actually around Easter as a kid. We'd go to the huge egg hunt they'd have in the field just behind the park, with what seemed to be thousands of these weird packaged hard candy eggs with stickers on them, each sticker indicating a different prize, and walking away with loads of what had to be arcade left over prizes like stuffed animals and such, but man, my brother and I were content.
My family went the day they closed. They were turning people away at the entrance to the parking lot. So sad to see the deterioration of the park. 😢 Glad I got the chance to experience it once before they closed.
Many good times,.. school Fun Nights, company picnics with the folks. When the cool evenings would set in would always be on the lookout to find a special gal to ride in the Wacky Shack 😈 or experiencing the mild panic of holding onto your loose change on the Zipper😮. Who wants to ride the roller coaster again? Some nights we would get off the coaster then get right back in line for what seemed like hours. As the attractions would occasionally change, the large slide at Joyland was moved out to the Giant Store located near Ridge Rd. & Kellogg in the 70's... grab your gunny sack! That location on W. Kellogg is now I believe a Lowes.
Lots of memories ther great little theme park sad Wichita lost it i think ther was only a fu wooden roller coaster left in the us back then real cool video thank u
I just turned 50 and I remember a lot of great memories growing up here I remember Easter egg hunts were huge here it hurts to see joyland so torn up now many great memories here
When I was a teenager in the 80's, three of my friends got summer jobs at Joyland...I'd hang out all day, riding the bumper cars and go carts for free ! Good times. Also, I remember that old wooden roller coaster missing boards and loose and shaking...lol
I remember going in the 80’s bread my heart what the area looks like today!!! Another American Classic gone and destroyed!!!Well looking forward to Bells re-opening in Oklahoma!!! Wish the dream to Re-Open Joyland was the same passion and fire!!!!
This place was epic... Made my summers, loved it! Btw carousel was my fav skate rink in Wichita! We lived close to skate south, but once in a while we got the treat of carousel!
I remember going to Joyland in the late 1940's as preteen and "riding the rides." Thank you for this film; it brings back pleasant memories of going there with my father. I made it back once before it closed; it was shabby then.
I could imagine maybe one day that Wichita Kansas might have someone or something come along one day and try to make a even better park than joy land for the city. But not today but maybe soon.
I heard they closed the pool because a boy drowned. so I never got to use it when I went. I road the red train. I always got butterflies when headed to joyland and standing in line was crazy. I loved Loui and the organ
It’s graff stomping grounds these days. They should have kept more building in tact, but they tore almost everything down at this point. Only things left and tracks from the coasters, the big slide and the restroom area’s building. So sad.
My brother, and other friends, & I use to walk from Oakland to enjoy the park!! My youngest daughter worked there when she was in high school. It is a shame they did not save item for a museum.
Shameful the greedy Nelson family demanded 4 million for this dilapidated dump in the end. It would have been a great tribute to Stan Nelson by donating it so someone could afford to preserve it. They ended up with nothing
I strongly disagree with your take on Wichita not being a populated enough area for an amusement park. The reason I disagree is because Wichita is growing like a weed and is constantly expanding and changing and is literally double it's size in population compared to back when this park was in it's glory days. The city itself is on an constant upwards trend in growth and shows no signs of slowing down. There's constant new development/redevelopment occurring all over and around the city, which creates a perfect place for something like this to thrive. The failure of this amusement park and the canceling of plans to renovate it more than likely has a lot to do with changing demographics of the immediate area it's in. Back then that part of town was bustling whereas today it's one of the deadbeat rundown areas of the city that could not support something of this scale. They should rebuild this amusement park somewhere out near the suburbs/newer development around the outer skirts away from the city center. That would be a recipe for success.
![Abandoned Amusement Park (Joyland in Wichita) [ITW]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/OGZCa9RmHnU/mqdefault.jpg)
Man, the nostalgia hurts. 💔
I didn't know there had been a swimming pool close by. How awesome was that. Too bad all the good things have to end.
My family would go there in the early 60's! Got some pictures, black n white of course, of of us 4 kids riding in the kiddie ride section! Course the tilt a whirl was my favorite! Years later as a teenager, my sister and I got stuck at the top of the ferris wheel!!!! Seemed like forever to get back down! Never rode one since😊 good wholesome memories! So was Kiddie Land , they gave away baby chicks dyed in pastel colors for Easter, anyone remember that? Showing my age, lol!
I'm 62 years old.
It's cool to see those people that rode that coaster even before I did as a kid.
You had to be ☝️ tall to ride!
Breaks my heart that wichita didn't make a museum of joy land memorabilia .
I heard that they did.
Not much but one of the logs from the Log Jam is at Carousel Skate Center and the carousel itself was refurbished and operates at Botanica.
@@AUTOPSY666nah, most of the pieces from it went to miscellaneous restaurants and bars around town. Nitro ice cream place off Woodlawn and Kellogg has a ton of wreckage from it
It breaks my heart that we can't have anything. No Joyland, no Barnacle Bill's Fantasea. F this place, man.
I went in the 60’s and 70’s as a kid, then took my kids in the mid-90’s. Makes me sad that it’s not there. All we have are faded memories from several generations
I worked there from 1972 until the end of the Summer in 1976. My best friend ran the Go Cart track all the time and I was regulated to running the rides and I could run everything in the park by the time I left. Good times. The Nelson's were great folks and I don't think I even picked up my last check from them when we moved away.
This place holds a heart full of memories for me. My brother and I haunted the park regularly from 1955 to 1962. We absolutely could not wait for 99 cent day to roll around once a month in the summer. I did not see any pictures from the “Old West” part of the park where you could get a Sarsapirilla or watch a shoot out. I also missed seeing the “Ghost House!” Thank you for this wonderful montage of warm fuzzies.
Another heartbreaker... Barnacle Bill's Fantasea. 🧜🏻♀️💔
I lived in the neighborhood across the field from Joyland. Every summer in the 80's I would hear the screams from people riding the roller coaster. Such great memories.
I'd say my favorite Joyland memories are actually around Easter as a kid. We'd go to the huge egg hunt they'd have in the field just behind the park, with what seemed to be thousands of these weird packaged hard candy eggs with stickers on them, each sticker indicating a different prize, and walking away with loads of what had to be arcade left over prizes like stuffed animals and such, but man, my brother and I were content.
My family went the day they closed. They were turning people away at the entrance to the parking lot. So sad to see the deterioration of the park. 😢 Glad I got the chance to experience it once before they closed.
Many good times,.. school Fun Nights, company picnics with the folks. When the cool evenings would set in would always be on the lookout to find a special gal to ride in the Wacky Shack 😈 or experiencing the mild panic of holding onto your loose change on the Zipper😮. Who wants to ride the roller coaster again? Some nights we would get off the coaster then get right back in line for what seemed like hours.
As the attractions would occasionally change, the large slide at Joyland was moved out to the Giant Store located near Ridge Rd. & Kellogg in the 70's... grab your gunny sack! That location on W. Kellogg is now I believe a Lowes.
I would always hear a loud banging sound as we climed the hill on the roller-coaster.
Lots of memories ther great little theme park sad Wichita lost it i think ther was only a fu wooden roller coaster left in the us back then real cool video thank u
I just turned 50 and I remember a lot of great memories growing up here I remember Easter egg hunts were huge here it hurts to see joyland so torn up now many great memories here
Binge watching Joyland videos today. It was my Joyland in 65
When I was a teenager in the 80's, three of my friends got summer jobs at Joyland...I'd hang out all day, riding the bumper cars and go carts for free ! Good times. Also, I remember that old wooden roller coaster missing boards and loose and shaking...lol
A child got killed on the train. Decapitated. After that it was all shut down.
@@janetduncan87 explain
@@janetduncan87 Wow I had no idea...but I moved away from Kansas years ago. That's terrible !
It was a maintenance worker weedwacking and didn't hear the train.
@@AUTOPSY666
I believe I read about a maintenance worker losing his life around the roller coaster. Could be wrong, that was many years back.
I went to Joyland and kiddie land growing up in Wichita. Lots of good and fun memories.
I remember going in the 80’s bread my heart what the area looks like today!!! Another American Classic gone and destroyed!!!Well looking forward to Bells re-opening in Oklahoma!!! Wish the dream to Re-Open Joyland was the same passion and fire!!!!
Oh Joyland Please come back!! So many good memories of last days during my childhood in the 90s 😭
Outstanding tribute video!
loved that archive footage in the beginning!
This makes me sooo sad.
Almost 50
Great video
Came here alot in the good ole days.
RIP to the groundskeeper who got decapitated by that roller coaster back in the 70's/80's
OMG, I never heard that!!! I only heard of a little bit falling out of it!😢
This place was epic... Made my summers, loved it! Btw carousel was my fav skate rink in Wichita! We lived close to skate south, but once in a while we got the treat of carousel!
Grew up near Central & West St. Knew it very well in the 70's
I remember going to Joyland in the late 1940's as preteen and "riding the rides." Thank you for this film; it brings back pleasant memories of going there with my father. I made it back once
before it closed; it was shabby then.
So u gotta be almost 100 yrs old?
Hell NO! I'm only 85!
I’ve been to your guys skate center
I use to work the Big Slide back in 1972!
My very first job was here.
Do you remember where they moved the slide too?
Grew up with this park in the 80s. Was a great place.
I could imagine maybe one day that Wichita Kansas might have someone or something come along one day and try to make a even better park than joy land for the city. But not today but maybe soon.
Yes when I was growing up my stepfather worked at Boeing and one day it was Boeing day 99 cents day which also includes the swimming pool !!!!!
I heard they closed the pool because a boy drowned. so I never got to use it when I went. I road the red train. I always got butterflies when headed to joyland and standing in line was crazy. I loved Loui and the organ
It’s graff stomping grounds these days. They should have kept more building in tact, but they tore almost everything down at this point. Only things left and tracks from the coasters, the big slide and the restroom area’s building. So sad.
Sure brings alot of memories.
Loved going there my dad and step mom would take me there and had a soo much fun..
Work at the roller rink and amusement park for a brief moment
Speed skated 1978 -1979
Best Club Ever !
This makes me so sad.
Memories 💜❤️
Breaks my heart !!!!
Wichita is the air capital of the entire world not part of the world but all of it not 1/3 of it but all of it
😕 I remember those days
I want to go!
I think herr some pictures of Kiddie Land in there
This place probably would’ve been fun but I wasn’t even born yet.. so sad
My brother, and other friends, & I use to walk from Oakland to enjoy the park!!
My youngest daughter worked there when she was in high school. It is a shame they did not save item for a museum.
City of wichita made a huge mistake ny not backing joyland or buying it real sad they just released plans for that land
THANK YOU for posting this. so many happy hours there
I have a whole PLAYLIST of povs of abandoned amusement rides. You can view it here: ua-cam.com/video/Cu9pbIWafdQ/v-deo.html
Their was a kid from they’re who once ran in the Olympics and was a good runner o it from the last 1870s on it when that off that they did it on it!
Dark Deception no protection
Shameful the greedy Nelson family demanded 4 million for this dilapidated dump in the end. It would have been a great tribute to Stan Nelson by donating it so someone could afford to preserve it. They ended up with nothing
I strongly disagree with your take on Wichita not being a populated enough area for an amusement park. The reason I disagree is because Wichita is growing like a weed and is constantly expanding and changing and is literally double it's size in population compared to back when this park was in it's glory days. The city itself is on an constant upwards trend in growth and shows no signs of slowing down. There's constant new development/redevelopment occurring all over and around the city, which creates a perfect place for something like this to thrive. The failure of this amusement park and the canceling of plans to renovate it more than likely has a lot to do with changing demographics of the immediate area it's in. Back then that part of town was bustling whereas today it's one of the deadbeat rundown areas of the city that could not support something of this scale. They should rebuild this amusement park somewhere out near the suburbs/newer development around the outer skirts away from the city center. That would be a recipe for success.
Welcome to gangland! Formerly known as Joyland.
A buttload of 8mm film and cigs.
Why’s this made by the skating rank in Wichita Kansas