Wonderland Park 1960 Photos
These are some great Aerial Photographs of the once very popular Wonderland Park in Southgate, Michigan that used to be tucked in right at the corner of Fort St. and Pennsylvania Rd. on the little short cut that took you down behind Montgomery Wards called Trenton Rd. Here you can see very clearly, in 1959, the rides that all of us from the downriver Detroit area used to take for granted. All summer long, any time at all, you could come and spend hours on the rides that made up a day of fun and summer dreams No longer there now, close to where Southgate Auto Dealership still is, is the Park & further on down Fort St., the Fort George Drive Inn.where families came together to see movies from Bettie Davis' "Sweet Baby Jane" to "John Travolta in "Urband Cowboy". Those were the days when you'd pull up just right so that your dashboard didn't block the movie screen & then get the speaker to hang in your window & adjust the volume so everybody in the car could hear it. You'd go in while it was still light outside & the kids would run up to the front under the movie screen and play on the rides while Mom & Dad would organize the snacks, blankets & pillows.
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