A World Overgrown

The hotrod track, long since driven on, becomes slowly overgrown with beautiful flowers.

"Take a packet of seeds, take yourself out to play
I want to see a river of orchids where we had a motorway
Push your car off of the road...

The grass is always greener when it bursts up through concrete..."
- "River of Orchids", Andy Partridge

The Chutes: shot!

This is what was left of the Chute the Chutes in the early 1990s: just part of the tower, and the water track.

One from the Monochrome Set

Another delightfully naughty Mutoscope card from the part--this one dates from 1945. (They must have saved all the color ink for the war effort!)

Swimming and Coasting

The coaster and the old bathing beach, seen in postcard view.

Tickets from 1932

Tickets to a Grandstand show (might this be the State Fair instead?), and to the House of Trouble!