In its heyday, Lakewood Park in Barnesville was a combination of Hollywood and Coney Island, where movie stars and coal miners, singers and seamstresses, big bands and grandparents and grandchildren gathered for all kinds of fun and recreation.
The park has been closed since 1984, but its memory lives on for those who traveled to this coal region entertainment mecca to see Tommy Dorsey or Artie Shaw, celebrate their ethnic heritage or just have family picnics, enjoy some swimming, ride the carousel or just plain relax. Lakewood Park was the place to go, whether you could walk from home or had to traveled from out of state.
Now all that remains are images captured on photographic paper, and thanks to members of the Guinan family, who owned and operated the park, many of those treasured photographs have been collected in a new book called, "Lakewood Park," which is part of the "Images of America" series by Arcadia Publishing.
http://www.republicanherald.com/news/new_book_on_lakewood_park_brings_back_many_memories
The park has been closed since 1984, but its memory lives on for those who traveled to this coal region entertainment mecca to see Tommy Dorsey or Artie Shaw, celebrate their ethnic heritage or just have family picnics, enjoy some swimming, ride the carousel or just plain relax. Lakewood Park was the place to go, whether you could walk from home or had to traveled from out of state.
Now all that remains are images captured on photographic paper, and thanks to members of the Guinan family, who owned and operated the park, many of those treasured photographs have been collected in a new book called, "Lakewood Park," which is part of the "Images of America" series by Arcadia Publishing.
http://www.republicanherald.com/news/new_book_on_lakewood_park_brings_back_many_memories
