Riverview Remembered by WGN
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My mom always talks about this place.
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0:34 Does anyone know what coaster that was?
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WOW. what great memories.
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@cgsilverscreen2020 My Granny lost her virginity in the Tunnel of Love. lol
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@starguard I recall Fun Town my cousin operated the kiddie farris wheel a few seasons.
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Where RiverView once stood now stands DeVry Institute of Technology. We also had another lesser known Amusement park named FunTown that stood on 95th Stony Island Ave. Sadly thats gone now too. :-(
Chicago is Slowly Dying!
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@1974Flyingsub The problem was that there was increased trouble with gangs hanging around the parking lots and preventing people from going into the park. It got real bad those last few years and no one could stop it. So people stopped going because they didn't want any trouble, business fell off and it was easier to just sell off the property than fix the problem. I'll always remember my aunt taking me on the coasters because my mom could not stand heights. Both are gone on and so is Riverview.
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So sad that America doesn't value it's past :(
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I remember the commercials, but we moved to Detroit in 67. My older brothers never took me there.
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God Bless Riverview I will never forget that park so long as I live.
tss77 3 years ago 11
"Laugh your troubles away!" That was the tag line from the ad which always ran on the Garfield Goose show. In the 80s my friends and I flew RC helicopters in the park along the river, on Rockwell south of McDonald's and the insurance office. I rode the Wild Mouse twice in Riverview's last season. When I was a young boy my mom carried me out of Aladdin's Castle with a sweater over my head, so distressed and scared was I.
datu52 3 years ago 4