Frontier Village Evening Magazine 1980

Evening Magazine piece about Frontier Village from the fall 1980.

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Frontier
• Village
• Bay
• Area
• Amusement
• Park

[panaflex]

My dad, Allen Weitzel is featured in this clip which is partly why I posted it. I have clear memories of this park, even though I was only 5 years old when it closed. See my other videos for more rare Frontier Village footage.

[bosswall]

This was a cool place and there is nothing like it today in the bay area. If this place was alive today fixed up it would be making money. The times were good too pepole walking around having fun and if you look hard enough nobody is on the damm cell phone.

[plimsoul89]

What a find! This brings back some great memories -- not to mention "Evening"'s Jan and Richard, beloved reminders of a happy Bay Area childhood. Many thanks!

[lilSnubby]

bummer



[btwentwo]

Jan Yanahiro! Ah, that fantastic introduction, with the Amiga 2600 graphics… the killer whale! I didn't remember how insanely grand the intro music was… must have been inspired by Dallas.

[MegaDaimoku]

We lived in Watsonville and my mom would bring me there once a summer. Such memories and what a great video! Thank you so much for posting it! I hadn't thought about Jan and Richard for sooooooo long. That intro gave me nostalgic goosebumps!

[Fairiedyll1]

I have a photo of myself when I was about 8 years old with my head and hands locked in the prisoner's wooden yoke, and another photo years later of my daughter at age 3 in the same wooden yoke...totally unplanned ;p

[markcarbon]

San Jose is a such a bush-league town. Letting FV get paved over, gutting the Garden Theatre in Willow Glen - that's typical of the kinds of things that bush league towns do. You can make a list of all the stupid and ill-advised development decisions that have helped make San Jose a permanent "small-ville".

[markcarbon]

I remember Frontier Village quite well. I went to the park a number of times during my childhood. I remember a Radio KEEN "Family Fun Day" where popular C&W singer Johnny Duncan entertained thru a rainstorm on a Saturday afternoon in April or May in the mid-70's. Wonderful memories and I still miss FV to this day.

[planetcheck]

I have the stagecoach, the canoes and the wooden Indian and a lot of Frontier Village signs.

They have been in storage for years.

San Jose regrets to this day tearing down Frontier Village.

If they hadn't torn it down, it would be a California Historical Landmark today.

[56BUICKRiviera]

@rampking1 That shooting gallery was awesome

[jvowen007]

I worked at FV for a year and only quit a couple months before it closed, missing out on getting my name on the "Last Roundup" t-shirts. It was such a fun and happy place to be that I worked 6 days a week that Summer and came in on most of my days off, too. I was fortunate, working on the Burro Ride (Tumbleweed and I had a special friendship) and the Canoe Ride, which were especially nice on hit days due to the shade and cool water. I remember Allen Weitzel, too.