Kiddieland

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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.

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