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Riverview Park (Chicago)

释义

Rides
George Schmidt
Current use
Memorabilia
Bally and Williams
See also
References
Further reading
External links

This is an article about the amusement park called Riverview Park. For the neighborhood of that name in Ottawa, Canada, see Riverview (Ottawa). For the amusement park of that name in Baltimore, see Riverview Park (Baltimore). For the large city park in Pittsburgh, see Riverview Park (Pittsburgh).

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| name = Riverview Park
| image = Entrance to Riverview Park (JJH).jpg
| caption=Main Entrance to Riverview Park
| location = 3727 N Western Ave, Chicago 60618
| coordinates =
| opening_date = 1904
| closing_date = 1967
| previous_names =
| season =
| visitors =
| area =
| rides =
| coasters =
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| slogan = "Laugh Your Troubles Away!", "Chicago's famous Amusement Park"
| status = Closed
| footnotes =
}}Riverview Park was an amusement park in Chicago, Illinois which operated from 1904 to 1967. It was located on 74 acres (0.3 km²) in an area bound on the south by Belmont Ave. on the east by Western Ave, on the north by Lane Tech High School, and on the west by the North Branch of the Chicago River. It was in the North Center community area and neighborhood on Chicago's north side.^[1]

Rides

Riverview was most known for The Bobs roller coaster. Other popular coasters were The Comet, The Silver Flash, The Fireball and the Jetstream. Aladdin's Castle was a classic fun house with a collapsing stairway, mazes and turning barrel. Shoot the Chutes, Hades, the Rotor, Tilt-a-Whirl, Wild Mouse, the Mill on the Floss (Tunnel of Love), and Flying Turns were just a few of the many classic rides. "The Pair-O-Chutes at Riverview Park'll shake us up all day" is a line from the Beach Boys' song "Amusement Parks U.S.A." from their 1965 album Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!). There were supposedly over 120 rides in the park.

List of Rides/Attraction

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Ride	year built	Year Closed	Manufactuer and ride type	Description
Bobs	1924	1967	Wooden Roller Coaster	?
Comet	?	?	Roller Coaster	?
Silver Flash	?	?	Roller Coaster	?
Fireball	?	?	Roller Coaster	?
Jetstream	1964	1967	Wooden Roller Coaster Philadelphia toboggan company	Jetstream replaced the ride Greyhound. It was not as popular as some of the more wild rides at the park. Jetstream was demolished before it was paid off.
Aladdin's Castle	?	?	Fun house	The mirrors are reportedly at a dance club in Palatine.
Shoot the Chutes	?	?	Water Ride	Old fashioned water ride
Hades	?	?	Fun house	?
The Rotor	?	1967	?	The Rotor was a spinning ride where the floor dropped out from under riders. They were then held to the wall by centripetal force. The ride was sold to six flags but then was opened at Marriott's Great America in 1976. It was then closed in 2000 because of a ride malfunction that led to 2 girls feet getting squished in the ride.
Tilt-a-Whirl	?	?	Tilt-a-Whirl	?
Wild mouse	?	?	Wild mouse coaster	?
Mill on the Floss	?	?	?	Previously named Thousand Islands but later became Mill on the Floss. In 1950 it was renamed to The Tunnel of Love
Flying Turns	1934	1967	Wooden Bobsled ride	Wooden bobsled run with steep turns. Moved from the Chicago World's fair in 1934 and opened the following season. Flying Bobs was removed with the park in 1967
Pair-O-Chutes	1963?	?	?	This ride lifted riders to the top of a tower before dropping carts attached to parachutes
Carousel	1908	1964	Carousel	This 70-horse carousel was built in 1908. It is a PTC carousel and is one of olnly three remaining five-abreast carousels known to exist. It was moved in Six Flags Magic Mountain where it opened in 1972.
Coal-fired Miniature steam engine	?	?	?	?
Freak show	1950s	Show	A show that featured Betty Lou Williams, the worlds only 4 legged girl, and a trained magician who would go on to play Wizzo the Wizard in the famous "Bozo Show"
Flying scooter	?	?	?	Looks almost like a hang glider
Boomerang	?	?	?	?
Strat-O-Stat	?	?	?	?
The Calypso	?	?	?	?
Hot Rods	1955?	?	?	?
Ferris Wheel	?	?	Ferris wheel	Ferris wheel
Paratrooper	1960	?	?	?
Space Ride	1963	?	Sky ride	a $300,000 sky ride.
Bump 'Em	?	?	Bumper Cars	?
Greyhound	?	?	Roller coaster	Was replaced by Jetstream
The Tickler	1910
Expo whirl	1910
Witching Waves	1910
Metrodome	1911
Velvet Coaster	1907	1919
Pikes Peak Scenic Railway	1907
Racetrack	1907

George Schmidt

The Riverview Park grounds were owned by George Schmidt. Immediately across the street, on the east side of Western Avenue, was George Schmidt Motors. There, George Schmidt senior sold new Sunbeams and Hillmans and other British cars from the Rootes Group (Humbers, Commers, etc.) and George Schmidt junior raced his sportcar named the Li'l Stinker, a white Sunbeam Alpine convertible with a cute skunk in a yellow circle painted on the doors and bonnet.

"Big Bill" Haywood, the Industrial Workers of the World leader, once spoke here to a crowd of almost 80,000 people.^[2]

Current use

The former grounds are now home to Riverview Plaza shopping center, the Belmont District Police Station, DeVry University, a manufacturing company and Richard Clark Park, part of the Chicago Park District. The south end of Clark Park has a wooded area where many of the Riverview Park foundations are still visible and is currently used as a bicycle dirt jump and pump track park maintained by the Chicago Area Mountain Bikers. A sculpture entitled Riverview by local artist Jerry Peart stands in front of the police station.

Memorabilia

As with any memorabilia, items from the park are now quite valuable. Many items from the old park, as well as many paintings portraying Riverview in its glory days, are on display at its namesake, Riverview Tavern, on the corner of West Roscoe Street and Damen Avenue. The Riverview Carousel continues to operate at Six Flags Over Georgia.^[3] It and the Rotor were the only rides to be saved. The Rotor was moved to Six Flags Great America where it operated as Cajun Cliffhanger. It was removed after the 2000 season due to an injury on the ride.^[4]

Bally and Williams

The 1972, Bally Manufacturing Corporation pinball machine Fireball was named after the park's Fireball roller coaster. Also, Bally's Aladdin's Castle amusement arcade division was renamed from Carousel Time to honor the closed Riverview Park and the Aladdin's Castle funhouse. Bally's Aladdin's Castle pinball machine was also inspired by the same funhouse at Riverview. The 1979 Williams Electronics' pinball game Flash as well as their 1985 Comet was named after the park's roller coasters with these names.^[5] Bally Manufacturing Corporation and Williams Electronics, Inc. had their headquarters and primary manufacturing facilities just West of Riverview Park during the later years of the park's operating life.

References

1. ^{{cite news |first=Randi |last=Shaffer |date=October 4, 2017 |url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-chicago-riverview-park-closure-20171004-htmlstory.html |title=50 Years Later: A Timeline of Chicago's Riverview Park |newspaper=Chicago Tribune |access-date=October 4, 2017}}
2. ^Rosemont, Franklin (2002) Joe Hill: The IWW & the Making of a Revolutionary Workingclass Culture, Charles H. Kerr Publishing Company
3. ^www.sixflags.com
4. ^{{Cite news|url=http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2000-07-20/news/0007200374_1_coaster-ride-six-flags-great-america|title=2 Girls Injured On Great America Ride|work=tribunedigital-chicagotribune|access-date=2017-03-10|language=en}}
5. ^IPDB.org

External links

Defunct Parks site
Sharpshooters Productions Inc.'s Riverview Park site
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