We took the young-uns to the amusement park in Bartlesville last night.
http://www.kiddiepark.net/
It is great for very young kids with rides for one year olds. Our five year old rode almost every ride and our eight year old did the same three or four that he could over and over.
My wife is still complaining about being sore from the ride like the tilt-a-whirl. The roller coaster, the carousel, and the train were easier on adult bodies.
The ride tickets were only a quarter each and the rides that adults could ride were two tickets, but everything else was one ticket. Ice cream and cotton candy were only a dollar and snow cones were only 75 cents. We were there for the whole three hours they are open, 7 till 10, and spent less than 30 dollars as a family.
Because there is no admission charge, there were large families everywhere. I would see three generations together throughout the park. The park was clean, the rides all worked and it was safe.
Now...if we could only get these guys to buy out Bell's...
Bells. What a dump. People who were distraught over its demise are looking at it only through rose colored glasses, tinted by affection of memories from many years ago when it was a clean, maintained park. Good riddance.
I grew up going to that park every summer in the early to mid 70's with my grandparents. It was always a fun time and some really great memories.
The wife and I need to take a road trip down there with out kids. It's nice to see that it's still going strong.
Woolaroc is another great place for kids if you happen to be in the B'ville area.
I saw a story recently on TV, maybe it was KOED 11 PBS, about the Bartlesville kiddie park. Reminded me very much of what Bell's in Tulsa was like when I was a kiddie in the early 1960s. It's great that they have kept that simple pleasure tradition alive.
I lived in Tulsa from birth to 19 and I didn't even hear about this! Wow, the things you miss when your mother is a flight instructor and your dad is a physician.