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Playland, often called Rye Playland and also known as Playland Amusement Park, is an amusement park located in Rye, New York, along the Long Island Sound. Built in 1928, the 280-acre (110 ha) park is owned by the Westchester County government. Beginning in 2018 the park has been operated under contract by Standard Amusements.
Dragon Coaster at RCDB. The Dragon Coaster is a wooden roller coaster at Playland amusement park in Rye, New York. Opened in 1929, it was designed and built by amusement ride creator Frederick Church, [1] the co-inventor of the Racing Derby, another early 20th century amusement park ride. The Dragon Coaster has approximately 3,400 feet of track ...
The Whip (ride) The Whip was a ride originally designed and built by W.F. Mangels Company of Coney Island, New York, United States. [1] William F. Mangels patented the ride in 1914 and it soon became extremely popular. The ride consists of two circular wheel-like turn-table platforms on opposing sides of a rectangular base.
Playland is celebrating the iconic Dragon Coaster's 95th birthday with two weekends full of family-friendly activities and celebrations.
The 1995 music video for Mariah Carey's Fantasy featuring Ol' Dirty Bastard was shot at Rye Playland. [94] Several episodes of Season 3 of Apple TV's show Dickinson about the poet Emily Dickinson were filmed at the Jay Heritage Center in 2021. [95] Rye is mentioned in the song American Pie, by Don McLean: "good old boys were drinkin' whiskey in ...
The first Derby Racer coaster at Revere Beach was built in 1911 by Fred W. Pearce [4] for a cost of $140,000. [1] Derby Racer's racing coaster design was a popular type of roller coaster in the first two decades of the 20th century; more than one quarter of all the racing coasters ever built were constructed in the 1900s and 1910s. [5]
Dancer's Image was a gray horse owned and bred by businessman Peter D. Fuller of Runnymede Farm in North Hampton, New Hampshire, the son of former Massachusetts Governor Alvan T. Fuller. Originally named A.T.'s Image in memory of Fuller's father, [2]: 19 the horse was renamed Dancer's Image in preparation for sale at auction in February 1967 ...
Airplane Coaster. / 40.96583°N 73.67389°W / 40.96583; -73.67389. 10 cars. Riders are arranged 2 across in a single row for a total of 20 riders per train. Airplane Coaster, known previously as the Aero-Coaster and the Aeroplane Dips, [ 1] was a wooden roller coaster which operated at Playland Amusement Park in Rye, New York, from 1928 ...