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The park and each ride within it featured a neon-lit entrance arch created by [[Dixie Neon]]. | The park and each ride within it featured a neon-lit entrance arch created by [[Dixie Neon]]. | ||
After the majority of the original rides were dismantled, the site continued to be used for traveling carnivals, such as [[Spring Fling]] and [[Fall Carnival]], which were subsidized by the city of [[Birmingham]]. | |||
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Revision as of 10:48, 11 May 2010
Kiddieland (or Kiddieland Park) was a small amusement park which operated at the Alabama State Fairgrounds from 1948 to the mid 1980s.
The park opened the week after Memorial Day in 1948. Special guests that week included Joe Rumore and Happy Wilson's Golden River Boys, as well as the Industrial High School band and Captain J. P. Snyder's trained bears. Ernest Norris of Southern Railways dedicated the park's miniature train as the "Little Southerner".
The park featured a merry-go-round, a ferris wheel, "Comet Junior" and "Caterpiller" roller coasters, several kiddie rides (clowns on tricycles; swans and turtles), "Auto Scooter" bumper cars, speedboats, "Laugh Land" funhouse, a "Laff in the Dark" dark ride, an arcade and a petting zoo.
The park and each ride within it featured a neon-lit entrance arch created by Dixie Neon.
After the majority of the original rides were dismantled, the site continued to be used for traveling carnivals, such as Spring Fling and Fall Carnival, which were subsidized by the city of Birmingham.
References
- Hollis, Tim (May 2010) "Iconic Entertainment: Kiddieland was a magical attraction for generations of Birmingham children" Birmingham magazine.
External links
- Kiddieland feature on Birmingham Rewound