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The local amusement park shut down this year, after 50 years of operation. I decided to go look at it the other morning; the cold rain made it seem even more forlorn that it already was.
Some of the rides are being shipped to other parks, but I guess the stuff that remains is headed toward being a big pile of bent metal.
Sad update: the owner of Joyland, David Dean passed away yesterday. His wife said, “I truly believe that the sale of Joyland falling through broke his heart.”
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 5.13.2023
Wild River
The local amusement park is closed for the season, so I stopped by to see what sorts of things I could spot by looking over the fence. Well, not so much “looking over” the fence “as spotting a place where the fence was crushed down a little bit and then standing on a nearby concrete wheel stop and holding my camera above the fence and shooting blind.” Practically the same thing, though.
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 11.16.2019
Three Toilets
This amusement park has been around forever.
When I was a little kid, my parents took their sixth-grade Sunday School class there. One of the kids threw up on a ride. That’s practically my only memory of the place.
I drive by there every couple of years, and this time I saw three portable toilets. Not that they made me think of throw-up kid or anything like that.
Joyland Amusement Park
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 4.25.2017
December 5
Joyland Amusement Park tells you it’s “where the fun is.” I mention it only because I thought some of you might have wondered where, exactly, the fun was and now you know. The only thing is that the place is closed down for the winter. Does that mean there’s no fun anywhere until March 2013, when it reopens?
Joyland Amusement Park
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 12.1.2012
One Day | One Image 