moosic, pa(rocky glenn park) (Hanover, Nuangola: high school, live in, airport)

[nycsmartass]

I also remember "Ghost Town In the Glen". I currently live in NYC but was born in Pa and while visiting relatives near Williamsport, we took a day trip to the park. It had to be around 35+ years ago. I remember the day we were there, I saw them transporting a ride into the park that had "Palisades Amusement Park" on it. I'd been a big fan of Palisades Park in NJ (which was sold off and made into hi-rise housing or something). I know Palisades Park closed in September, 1971, so Ghost Town was most likely still around after that.

[ScranBarre]

Originally Posted by NYRangers 2008

I would think an amusement park, much like Dorney would thrive in this area. It doesn't need to be at the old Rocky Glen site, but somewhere near Scranton and Wilkes-Barre. We can support a casino, 3 sports franchises, a ski area and various malls and shoppes. It would create jobs for people here and attract visitors to the area. As long as it would be a private company owning it, so no more burden would be put on the taxpayers, I think it would be good for the area.

My out-of-town friends and I enjoyed our visit to Knoebel's yesterday, but it was a little disheartening that seemingly every other child at the park was wearing a hat, jersey, jacket, etc. with some sort of school district logo from the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre area. Why must people from our highly-populated area travel all the way to Elysburg, Allentown, or Hershey to have a fun family outing? Opening a new park in Scranton would likewise draw in tourists from Binghamton, NY and the Poconos (think of all the potential Lackawanna County could have in boosting tourism if visitors to the new amusement park stopped at the nearby visitors' center on Montage en route to Steamtown, the coal mine tour, downtown, etc.).

[JoeyAnyc]

I was a visitor of RGP throughout the 80's. I've been collecting some items over the past few years. I also purchased that DVD you always find on Ebay.

I'm looking for photos from when the park was functing back in the 80's.
Anyone who has photos or items, etc. that would like to share, please feel
free to contact me.

I love reading stories. I wish they would put another park in there. But, we know how that goes.

Hope to hear from some people!

Joey

[hopbottomhal]

Skee ball and the roller coaster......2 reasons why I always enjoyed Ghost Town In The Glen!

[proformancecycle]

Supposedly Roth never paid amusement tax and the county/town wants whoever opens it up to pay all the back taxes form way back!

[Selena Cross]

I used to go to Sans Souci when I was in grade school. The nun explained that Sans Souci was French for "without worry", and that we needed to stop pronouncing it as, "San Sooey."

[WasPA]

Originally Posted by Selena Cross

I used to go to Sans Souci when I was in grade school. The nun explained that Sans Souci was French for "without worry", and that we needed to stop pronouncing it as, "San Sooey."

I remember Sans Souci very well and fondly; I was an amusement park nutcase as a kid and would haved lived there if I could......heh. Funny you mention Sans Souci. I was trying to sleep the other night and for some unknown reason, Sans Souci came to mind; I proceeded to try to remember the trackage/ course of the "Bear Cat', Sans Souci's wonderful rickety-noisy wooden coaster/ It had a tunnel at the beginning, a steep first dip with a slight right shift at the bottom, then up and around a dip along the Sans Souci parkway, another steep drop, some rabbit hops, a rounded hill, then into the final 360 degree corner at a sharp left leaning angle---very fast, with a quick upward thing before entering the station......a heckuva ride..and all too brief! The ride had old fashioned hand brakes, too and those great carriages, like the ones on the Coney Island Cyclone......oh the great old days!

....funny story about the nuns and the pronounciation. We always said San 'Sooey', too. I used to lose patience with an uncle from Nanticoke who called it San Soozy.......

[mistyriverranch]

My great uncle was a co-owner of Sans Souci and my Dad often worked there as a teen on the roller coaster. I often wished it was still around when I was a kid in Clarks Summit. How cool to have a relative own an amusement park and how sad that it closed before I was old enough to enjoy it.

[WasPA]

Originally Posted by mistyriverranch

My great uncle was a co-owner of Sans Souci and my Dad often worked there as a teen on the roller coaster. I often wished it was still around when I was a kid in Clarks Summit. How cool to have a relative own an amusement park and how sad that it closed before I was old enough to enjoy it.

Get out! Fantastic! Way cool! You must ask him/ them if they have photographs! Coaster enthusiast organizations would love them as would amusement park orgs. Hell's bells, I would buy copies for the memories.... you could sell them on eBaytoo.

Find out! pulllleeeeze.....lol ,

[mistyriverranch]

Originally Posted by WasPA

Get out! Fantastic! Way cool! You must ask him/ them if they have photographs! Coaster enthusiast organizations would love them as would amusement park orgs. Hell's bells, I would buy copies for the memories.... you could sell them on eBaytoo.

Find out! pulllleeeeze.....lol ,

Unfortunately he is long dead (I don't have any memory of him) and I lost my Dad 5 years ago too. My aunt who lived in Lee Park and Nuangola was the keeper of those things and she died last year. The uncle who was the co-owner though, was the father of my Dad's cousin who was a state senator there for a long time from the 60's to the 80's.
I would love to see pictures of the place too! I was only there as a baby and have no memories of it all.