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Volume 42: 2020

Magazine Vol.42/No.1: 2020. 22x28cm – 36 Pages – Full colour Features: The Electric Playground (Includes Lake Winnepesaukah: Chattanooga, TN; Myrtle Beach Pavilion: Myrtle Beach, SC; Six Flags Over Texas: Arlington, TX; Riverside Park: Agawam, MA; Kennywood Park: West Mifflin, PA; Roseland Parl: Canandaigua, NY; Whalom Park: Lunenburg, MA) / Rocky Glen Park (Park history, 10 pages, 26 images) / A Look Back to 1920 (Includes Seabreeze Park: Rochester, NY; Kennywood Park: West Mifflin, PA; Lakeside Park: Salem, Virginia; Dorney Park: Allentown, PA; Venice Pier, CA; Ross Park Zoo: Bingham, NY) / Closed for the Season: Closed for Good (Includes Southern Adventures: Huntsville, AL; Clementon Park: Clementon, NJ; Fantasy Island: Grand Island, NY; Upper Clements: Nova Scotia, Canada; Elise's Family Fun Center: Winnie, TX; Scandia: Ontario, CA) / Another Change in Direction for Cincy's Coney (Park history, 8 pages, 30).

Magazine Vol.42/No.2: 2020. 22x28cm – 36 Pages – Full colour Features: Coasters Lost & Long Forgotten (Hillside PArk: Belleville, NJ; Frontier Village: San Jose, CA; Coney Island; Cincinnati, OH; Hersheypark, Hershey, PA; Brighton Beach, Luna Park: Coney Island, Brooklyn, NY; Hanlan's Point: Toronto, CA) / A Brief Sojourn On South Florida's High Seas (History of Pirate's World: Dania Beach, Fort Lauderdale, FL, 6 pages, 14 images) / A Look Back to 1945 (AllanHerschell, Company, Inc.: North Onawanda, NY; Beverly Park, Las Angelas, CA; Palisades Park: Cliffside PArk, NY; Steel Pier: Atlantic City, NJ; Fairview Park: Salem, Twp, PA; Wonder Wheel Park: Coney Island, Brooklyn, NY) / People of the Parks: Keith Hood (Details Keith's career working at various amusement parks, 6 pages, 18 images) / Haunting Memories of Dark Summer's Past (Palisades Park: Palisades, NJ; Fort George, NY; Miracle Strip: Panema City, FL; Trier's Park: For Wayne, IN; LaRonde: Montreal, Quebec, Canada; Pleasure Park: Rye Beach, NY ) / Mountain Park: Holyoke, MA (History of Mountain Park, 13 pages, 40 images) / Window to the Past International Amusement Park World (Dominion Park: Montreal, Quebec, Canada; Pleasure Beach: Great Yarmouth, UK; Irisn International Exhibition: Dublin, Ireland; La Feria Chapultepec, Mexico)

Magazine Vol.42/No.3: 2020. 22x28cm – 40 Pages – Full colour Chapter Points: Roller Coasters Lost & Long Forgotten (Coasters involving amusement parks Ocean View Park: Norfolk, VA; Revere Beach: Revere, MA; Junction Park: New Brighton, PA; Hanson's Amusement Park: Harvey's Lake, PA; Long Branch, NJ; Queen's Park: Long Beach, CA) / Lakemont Park: Story of Adaptation and Rebirth (includes a detailed history of Lakemont on 32 pages and 145 images) / A Look Back To 1970 (Includes events Riverside Park: Indianapolis, IA; Dodge Park Playland: Council Bluffs, IA; Hunt's Pier: Wildwood, NJ; Six Flags Over Georgia: Austell, GA, Lion Country Safari: Irvina, CA & Sockbridge GA; Land Of Oz: Beech Mountain, NC).

Magazine Vol.42/No.4: 2020. 22x28cm – 36 Pages – Full colour Features: Coasters Lost & Long Forgotten (Includes; The Pike: Long Beach, CA; Lincoln Park: North Dartmouth, MA; Petticoat Junction: Panema City, FL; Six Flags new England: Agawam, MA; Libertyland: Memphis, TN; Six Flags AstroWorld: Houston, TX) / My Bell's Story (NAPHA Member Greg Nuse tells his story of working at Bell's: Tulsa, OK. 8 pages, 18 images) / Bell's Amusement Park: A Timeline (2 pages, 12 images) / A Look Back to 1995 ( Disneyland Paris, Coupvray France; Busch Gardens: Williamsburg, VA; Conneaut Lake Park, Conneaut Lake, PA; Disneyland: Anaheim, CA; Geauga Lake Park: Aurora, OH; Elitch Gardens: Denver, CO) / The Strange Saga of Phillip S. Fry (Includes Phillip S. Fry's ownership of Paradise Lake: Guernsey County, OH; Eastland Fun Park: Columbus, OH; Prairie Dell Lake: Prairie Dell, TX. 12 pages, 34 images) / A Caterpillar's Long Journey to Samoa's First Amusement Park (Tupai Bruno Loyale built Samoa Fiagia Park; Tafaigata, Apia, Samoa with mention of Enchanted Forest: Porter IN; Greenwell's Family Fun Park: Fort Meyers, FL; Old Town: Kissimmee, FL; Miracle Strop Amusement Park: Panema City Beach, FL; Miracle Strip Pier Park: Panema City Beach, FL; Swampy Jack's Wongo Adventure: Panema City Beach, FL; Vollmar's Park: Bowling Green, OH; Santa Monica Pier: Santa Monica, CA. 6 pages, 16 images)

Volume 43: 2021

Magazine Vol.43/No.1: 2021. 22x28cm – 36 Pages – Full colour Features: A Look Back to 1921 (Includes Lagoon: Farmington, UT; Chippewa Park: Thunder Bay, Ontario; Alamo Park: Cedar Rapids, IA; Rendezvous Park: Atlantic City, NJ; Seabreeze: Rochester, NY; Exposition Park: Aurora, IL) / Amusement Park Steam Trains: A New Life in Retirement (Includes Knott's Berry Farm: Buena Park, CA; Disneyland: Anaheim, CA; Magic Kingdom: Walt Disney World, Lake Buena Vista, FL; Cedar Pont: Sandusky, OH; Dollywood/Rebel Railroad/Silver Dollar City; Gatlinburg/Pigeon Forge, TN; Six Flags Over Texas: Arlington, TX; Silverwood: Athol, ID; 26 pages, 73 images) / The Electric Playground (Inclues EPCOT Center: Walt Disney World, Lake Buena Vista, FL; Rocky Point: Warwick, RI; Adventureland Park: Altoona IA; Arnolds Park: Arnolds Park, IA; Crystal Beach Park: Crystal Beach, Ontario; Crescent Park: Riverside,RI) / Coasters Lost & Long Forgotten (Includes DandiLion Park: Muskego, WI; Nantasket Point Midway: Hull, MA; Willow Mill Park: Mechanicsburg, PA; Dodge Park Playland: Council Bluffs, IA; Knott's Berry Farm: Buena Park, CA; Lake Lansing Park: Haslett, MI)

Magazine Vol.43/No.2: 2021. 22x28cm – 36 Pages – Full colour Features: A Look Back to 1946 (Includes Lincoln Park, North Dartmouth, Massachusetts, National Amusement Device Company; White City, Savin Rock, West Haven, Connecticut; Iowa State Fair, Des Moines, Iowa; Santa Claus Land/Holiday World, Santa Claus, Indiana; Conneaut Lake Park, Conneaut Lake, Pennsylvania; Clacton Pier, Clacton-on-the-Sea, England) / Orange Lake Park / Wonderland: 1906-1910 / Other Wonderlands / Haunting Memories of Dark Summer’s Past (Includes: Conneaut Lake Park, Conneaut Lake, Pennsylvania; Myrtle Beach Pavilion, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina; Roseland Park, Canandaigua, New York; Minnesota State Fair, Falcon Heights, Minnesota; State Fair, Texas, Dallas, Texas) / From the Archives (Includes: John A . Miller images: Roller Coasters, Mill Chutes, Splash Chutes, Dome Trusses, Chutes Boats) / Closed for the Season, Closed for Good; Covid Casualties (Includes: Lollipop Park, Centennial, Colorado; Paradise Park, Lee’s Summit, Missouri; / Window to the Past International Amusement Park World (Includes: Ocean Beach, Marine Lake, Rhyl, Wales; Storybook Gardens, London, Ontario; Tivoli Gardens, Copenhagen, Denmark; Pleasure Beach, Great Yarmouth, England)

Magazine Vol.43/No.3: 2020. 22x28cm – 36 Pages – Full colour Features: 4 A Look Back to 1971 (Palisades Park, Fort Lee, New Jersey; Enchanted Forest, Turner, Oregon; Six Flags St. Louis, Eureka, Missouri; Silver Beach Park, St. Joseph, Michigan; Hershey Park, Hershey, Pennsylvania; Coney Island, Cincinnati, Ohio; Magic Kingdom, Walt Disney World, Lake Buena Vista, Florida)/ 6 Kiddie City and Santa Fe Kiddie Land: Merry Metropolises for Denver’s Youngsters / 18 The Electric Playground (Family Kingdom: Myrtle Beach, SC; Fun Fair Luna Park: Scarborough, UK; LeSourdsville Lake: Monroe, OH; Long Beach Resort: Panama City Beach, FL; Luna Park: Sydney, Australia; Pontchartrain Beach: New Orleans, LA) / French Fried Summer of Amazement (Cedar Point, Sandusky, Ohio) / Tumble Tumble Tumble...Bug (Conneaut Lake Park, Conneaut Lake, PA; Playland, Rye, NY; Euclid Beach Park: Euclid (Cleveland), OH; Rocky Point Park: Warwick, RI; Blackpool Pleasure Beach: Blackpool, England; Geauga Lake Park: Aurora, OH) / A Blue and Gold 150th (Cedar Point, Sandusky, Ohio)

Magazine Vol.43/No.4: 2020. 22x28cm – 36 Pages – Full colour Features: A Look Back to 1996 ()/ From Shady Lake to Old Indiana and Beyond…a Never Ending Story; Euclid Beach Park, Cleveland, OH; Shady Lake Park, Streetsboro, OH; Old Indiana, Thorntown, IN / Haunting Memories of Dark Summer's Past / A historical advertisement for the Ridee-O by Spillman Engineering / Roller Coasters Lost & Long Forgotten

Volume 44: 2022

Magazine Vol.44/No.1: 2022. 22x28cm – 36 Pages – Full colour Features: A Look Back to 1922 (Includes: Gordon Gardens, Cleveland, OH; Waldameer Park, Erie, PA; LeSourdsville Lake Amusement Park, Monroe, OH.; Forest Park, Chicago, IL; River View Beach, Pennsville, NJ; Idora Park, Youngstown, OH)) / NAPHA ParkHop21 RECAP (Event recap includes photos of the following parks from the 2021 trip: Deno’s Wonder Wheel Park, Coney Island, Brooklyn, NY; Luna Park, Coney Island, Brooklyn, NY; Coney Island USA, Coney Island, Brooklyn, NY; Flushing Meadows Carousel, Fantasy Forest Amusement Park (Flushing Meadows-Corona Park), Corona, NY; Forest Park Carousel, Forest Park Carousel Amusement Village, Forest Park, NY; SeaGlass Carousel, Battery Park, Manhattan, NY; Pier 62 Carousel Hudson River Park, New York City, NY; New England, Carousel Museum, Bristol, CT; Lake Compounce, Bristol, CT; Quassy, Middlebury, CT; Playland, Rye, NY) / Chasin' Lightnin' Loops (A look at the Launched Loop roller coaster by Arrow Dynamics, later Huss Arrow Inc.)

Magazine Vol.44/No.2: 2022. 22x28cm – 36 Pages – Full colour Features: A Look Back to 1947 (Includes: Paramount Pictures: ABUSEMENT PARK film; Prater Amusement Park, Vienna, Austria; Lake Winnepesaukah, Roseville, GA,; DelGrosso’s Park and Laguna Splash, Tipton, PA; Bay Shore Park, Sparrows Point, MD )) / Columbian Park: Amusement Park Within a City Park (A complete history of the park) / Fantastic Flumes (Includes: Kennywood, West Mifflin, PA; Crystal Beach in Ontario, Canada; Kings Island, Kings Mills, OH; Libertyland Amusement Park, Memphis, TN; Six Flags St. Louis, Eureka, MO; Opryland USA, Nashville, TN) / Contributing Author Feature: Jay Ducharme: Nine Decades of Happiness (A History of the Holyoke Merry-Go-Round in Holyoke, MA, formerly from Mountain Park / Busch Gardens Tampa: Then & Now (Before and after photos of the park).

Magazine Vol.44/No.3: 2022. 22x28cm – 36 Pages – Full colour Features: A Look Back to 1972 (Includes: Fire in the Hole at Silver Dollar City, Branson, MO; Grand Ole Carousel, Six Flags St. Louis, Eureka, MO; Country Bear Jamboree at Disneyland, Anaheim, CA; Fantasy Farm, Middletown, OH; Allan Herschell Carousel, Silverwood Theme Park, Athol, ID; Allotria at Williams Grove, Mechanicsburg, PA; Riverview Carousel opened at Six Flags Over Georgia, Austell, GA., Philadelphia Toboggan Company carousel (#17), Riverview Park, Chicago, IL) / A Grand Strang Amusement Park Becomes a Family Kingdom; Myrtle Beach, SC / 50 Years of Kings Island; Kings Mills, OH

Magazine Vol.44/No.4: 2022. 22x28cm – 36 Pages – Full colour Features: A Look Back to 1997 (Includes: Fun Spot America, Orlando, FL; Mt. Olympus Water & Theme Park, Wisconsin Dells, W; Arnolds Park, Arnolds Park, IA; Lake Compounce, Bristol, CT; Worlds of Fun, Kansas City, MO,; Kentucky Kingdom, Louisville, KY) / NAPHA ParkHop22 RECAP (Event recap includes photos of the following parks from the 2022 trip: Indiana Beach Boardwalk Resort, Monticello, IN; Santa's Village Amusement Park, Dundee, IL; Bay Beach, Green Bay, WI; and Little Amerricka, Marshall, WI) / Closed for the Season: Closed for Good (Includes recently closed amusement parks: Donley’s Wild West Town, Union, IL; Boomers Long Island, Medford, NY; Victorian Gardens, New York, NY; Andy Alligators Fun & Water Park, Norman, OK)

Volume 45: 2023

Magazine Vol.45/No.1: 2023. 22x28cm – 52 Pages – Full colour The Opryland Story. An in-depth look at the former Opryland Theme Park in Nashville Tennessee, this issue of the NAPHA Chronicle Magazine is entirely devoted to the history of the former theme park, including dozens of never-before-seen color photos.

Magazine Vol.45/No.2: 2023. 22x28cm – 36 Pages – Full colour The Opryland Story. An in-depth look at the former Opryland Theme Park in Nashville Tennissee, this issue of the NAPHA Chronicle Magazine is entirely devoted to the history of the former theme park, including dozens of never-before-seen color photos.

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