Lunenburg, MA: Whalom Park 2011: "For a Whale of a Time!" :(

Memorial Site: http://whalompark.homestead.com/WHALOMPARK.html

This is my yearly adventure to "Whalom Park", and to show you the progress of the condo development being put here.
This is nowhere near as far along as it appears on the main street (Route 13). It's pretty much a front for a giant gaping hole where fun and amusement once stood, slowly to be filled in over several years.

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[Poisonnachos]

My favorite ride is condo. I love the Black Condo part.

[georgef551]

@Poisonnachos

That's a pretty good ride, but my favorite one is Condo.

[Tunnelfish2]

Are there lots of new buyers of the condos? I hope not. I'd like to see the developers fail for the bad karma of destroying what was once a happy place.

[georgef551]

@Tunnelfish2

Sadly, they are being bought as fast as they're going up.

Rumor Mill has it, and I am almost 100% certain it's dead wrong, is the large lot that remains might be "New Whalom Park", but the cul-de-sac roads with duplexes planned for those empty regions squashes that. I think I've read they'll try and put it elsewhere (the new Whalom) nearby, but I don't see that happening. :(

[Tunnelfish2]

@georgef551 I can imagine that the lot you speak of is just a small fraction of what the park was, likely to be a shadow of its former self. I think it's better not to insult the local people by erecting what essentially would be a parody of the old park, IMO. As for the buyers of the condos, I guess it's part of the vapid population that has no interest in historic culture, basically just "mall-babies".

[georgef551]

@Tunnelfish2

I don't think the new amusement park will ever happen, to be honest. I don't think it would survive anyway, with Six Flags, and Canobie Lake relatively nearby.

[topaz358]

Looking for former whalom park roller skaters from 1966-1971 who new Dorothy

frank her maiden name, from Wilmington OR Billerica Mass, She has 2 sisters Daine &

Debbie. I always like her and never told her that. She is the one I should have marreid.

Can some one out there remember who she is? Please help me? Thankyou,

grumptruck ! 8-20-2011

[georgef551]

@cannycart

I don't know. Most people under 30 are terrified of it, and have nightmares for weeks. :)

[cannycart]

This is a must see theme park! I really want to ride the invisible roller coaster. :)

[georgef551]

@QuietSundayLibrary

Not with the big theme parks killing off these neighborhood dinosaurs. Canobie Lake Park (Salem, NH) is the closest surviving amusement park now.