Salem, Virginia amusement park

[bergie]

You can practically see the people dropping coins in this photo. Anyone live nearby? Wonder what's there today.
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[dodge92]

Check this out:

"The land that once boasted amusements and extravaganzas of epic proportions was converted in 1988 into the Lakeside shopping mall."

http://www.randomterrain.com/personal/lakeside.html

 

[bergie]

Like the song says, paved paradise, put up a parking lot...

 

[czman]

Hey go by there all the time on my way to the VA Hosp...progress sucks sometimes.

 

[bergie]

It may not apply to the Virginia site, but be aware that we had an old amusement park here that was plowed over by a college, but lots of research led us to determine that an area of woods right along the border of the park was untouched and after finding nothing in most of the area, I found six silver coins (including 1906 Barber half dollar) in a very small area of land. You never know.