American Amusement Park Museum
American Amusement Park Museum and Club (aapmac) is a small museum located near Carlisle, Pennsylvania. The museum has over 100 signs, ride cars, figures, game etc. from amusement parks of the United States, with most of the collection from the East Coast.
History[edit]
The family who founded the museum found their first ride car in 2006 at Williams Grove, it was an Old 99 train. The ride vehicle was given to them by Morgan Hughes, who owned the park at the time. The family wanted to collect more. From then on it grew, they got more amusement park items from auctions, donations, online, etc. The group was (and still is) always trying to find more defunct items from amusement parks and restoring them when needed. [1]
The Museum showroom[edit]
In 2012 the collection grew a lot more than they expected, making a museum was an idea for awhile, so they finally decided to build a museum, also known as "The Showroom" for the collection. The interior of the building was finally finished in 2016 with part of the collection inside the building for visitors to see.
The Online Museum[edit]
As the museum was taking shape there was no way for anybody to know about the museum yet. So that is when the name American Amusement Park Museum and Club was born. It grew overtime with the latest news on parks, history, and spotlights on the artifacts from the museum. Eventually their Instagram, Youtube, and Twitter page was also created. To become more official as media and a museum the website was created, the website was created in 2016 when the museum building was finished. There were Facebook posts that went viral and were on the news, such as when Kennywood Park's Log Jammer was being demolished. [2]
Artifacts[edit]
Some of the items from the collection is included below.
Olde Kennywood Railroad Figures[edit]
They have 11 of the Olde Kennywood Railroad figures, these were fiberglass figures from when the ride showed Pittsburgh history.
Ocean Playland Ghost Ship[edit]
The Ghost Ship dark ride was a ride at Ocean Playland in Ocean City, Maryland. It operated from 1965-1981, one of the vehicles from the ride is now in the museum.[3]
References[edit]
- ↑ "About us". amusementparkhistory.com. Retrieved 2018-02-23.
- ↑ "American Amusement Park Museum's Photos Show Log Jammer Being Dismantled". 2018-01-26. Retrieved 2018-02-23.
- ↑ Seidl, Brandon. "Salvaging the Wreck - Ocean Playland's Ghost Ship is Brought to the Surface - Ocean City, Maryland". www.ochh.net. Retrieved 2018-02-23.
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