By January, 1976, Sugartree was dead. With no fanfare, the developers turned their attentions back to Lakeside park, which remained open until 1986, when low attendance, a flood and the tragic ...

August 16 is national amusement park day and WDBJ7 is celebrating by looking back on the legacy of Lakeside Amusement Park. ... called the Shooting Star, ... of interest in NW park shooting.

People had happy memories of Lakeside Amusement Park, ... because of the death of a groundskeeper killed by the Shooting Star -- Lakeside tried for a comeback in 1986.

SALEM, Va. – Although it’s been gone for more than three decades, people still enjoy talking about Lakeside Park in Salem. On July 10, 1920, the amusement park first opened and was known for ...

Lakeside had an earlier coaster, the Wildcat, which opened in 1923 but was replaced in 1968 by the Shooting Star. There was nothing to rival the Shooting Star in Virginia until Busch Gardens and ...

Lakeside Amusement Park evolved from an 1887 attraction, ... “Shooting the chutes,” was one of the popular activities at Fairview Amusement Park, according to a picture postcard of Dayton.

The vintage jewels draping Lakeside Amusement Park, one of America’s grande dame of family entertainment attractions, may be tarnished, but they glow with the gravitas of age. “It’s a real ...