Results tagged “Brookside Park” from York Town Square

The demolished building in foreground is the bath house for Springwood Park near Yoe in the aftermath of the Flood of 1933. According to the booklet 'Picture Memories, York Flood 1933,' Mill Creek's waters carried the structure 100 feet off its foundation, and it broke into two sections when it struck a telephone pole. Half of it is in the swimming pool, at left. Nothing is left of Springwood Park, but the still-standing house, right, helps locate it. The house is identifiable today by its distinctive second-story windows. Background posts: Old Ma & Pa Railroad trestle may again carry passengers - on bicyles - some day and 19th-century mines gave Ore Valley its name and One-room schools: 'That's when things were good'.

The pool's sloping sides and cold, cold water make it memorable.

That was the 125-foot by 75-foot Springwood Pool along the road by the same name in York Township, between Chapel Church Road and Yoe.

It operated from the 1920s until 1954... .

Luther D. Summers mugs for the camera from a spot on a White Rose Amusement Park roller coaster support. He's about 90 feet up. Background posts: Great Balls of Fire, York's Memorial Park to spin back to 50s and Reader searching for Boys Club Pool photo and The 'Little Courthouse,' like longtime York square neighbor 'Teapot Dome,' still stands tall.

Gloria Miller saw the iconic photograph of the roller coaster of the former White Rose Amusement Park in the post Good grief, how long has that pool been there? and wanted to know more - or see more.

"I never knew about the White Rose Amusement Park. But would like to know more about it or pictures, anyone have pictures of it? My grandparents were farmers and we didn't move to York city till 1949. I was 6 years old by then. This is the first time I ever heard about it," she wrote in a comment on the post.

The photograph of the roller coaster, formerly located in the vicinity of Ferguson school near York's Farquhar Park, that appears in the "Good grief" post is the most common one used to give a glimpse of the memory-spawning park. It appears in the booklet "Northwest York" as well as Jim Hubley's "Off The Record."

The above photo of Luther Summers is also from "Northwest York," which gives information that Gloria might enjoy about the old amusement park: ...

These 160 steps from the lower level of Highland Park to the upper part were called "Fat Man's Misery." The park operated in the vicinity of Dogtown, on the north side of the Codorus Creek, south of Old Salem Road, between Highland Avenue and Hoke Street. Highland is described in "The Gazetter" as a "former recreational park in south eastern West Manchester Township . . . ." A large theater, dance hall, skating rink, merry-go-round, circular swing, penny arcade and numerous refreshment stands operated at the park. Highland Park, along with fellow recreational sites Cold Springs, near Manchester, and Brookside, near Dover, provided riders for trolleys during off-peak times -- evenings and weekends. Background post: Speeding trolleys drew criticism.

They were called electric parks because of their illumination by generous numbers of electric lights.

What they did was provide service for trolley companies during times when ridership was low. Many trolley users were going to and from work, often in York's many factories. What to do to promote use of weekends and evenings?

Thus began Brookside, Highland and Cold Springs parks in York County... .