Pretty incredible video, yet sad. I was here once in '73 & 74, but only being 1,2 years old, I don't remember it. I only remember it as a closed fenced off place with trees - the "Alps" mountain in the late 70s..until it was demolished and cleared out to make way for the big mall - which is still currently there today. The area is so full of traffic now, SOME of the original buildings remain from the late 1800s, early 1900s, the hotel on Park Ave. Willow Inn. Very hard to imagine it once looked like this. Next to the park also had the Worlds largest Bowling Alley - Willow Grove Lanes. Vert art deco, retro...that closed in the mid 80s. The building is still there..although it looks nothing like the bowling alley. Typical shopping center with no "personality" (Old Navy, Petco, Michels Arts and Crafts)
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Willow Grove Park was an amusement park located in Willow Grove, Pennsylvania (the part which is in Abington Township), United States, that operated for eighty years from 1896 until the 1975 season. The park operated under the name Six Gun Territory from 1972. After closure, announced in April 1976, the park sat vacant until the land was cleared for a large shopping mall known as Willow Grove Park Mall, which opened in August 1982. The mall pays homage to its predecessor by displaying banners and other objects which hark back to the land's days as an amusement park; a merry-go-round built and installed in 2001 operates within the mall.
Willow Grove was one of the premier amusement parks in the United States for a long time, until it was eclipsed by the openings of Great Adventure in Jackson, New Jersey, Disneyland and other more modern theme parks beginning in the 1950s.
One of the biggest attractions in the park was the music pavilion, at which John Philip Sousa and his band played every year, but one, between 1901 and 1926. The pavilion was demolished in March 1959.
- Willow Grove Mall info en.wikipedia.or...
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