The Rise and Fall of Peony Park
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
- Created by: Lexi Hostert, Jacob Anderson, Jacob Levy
Music: Fat Rat-Xenogenesis, Duke Ellington- Take the "A" Train, Andrew G- Inspirational Background Music**
Video Footage Provided By: SKAR advertising, The Auction Mill, and Joel Rogers
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In 1994 I was priviledged to be able to play in the band Living Proof who played a save Peony Park rally. It was so sad to see it go after growing up in the 60's and 70's there.
They had a ski lift that would circle the park if I remember. I was mostly there in the late 80's when I was a teenager. It was pretty cool. They had Sprite Night on Thursdays??? I think in the late 80's as well. I went there a few times with friends. It was quite popular. It's really a shame they weren't able to save it back in 1994. Omaha needed to save it in my opinion. Peony Park and the Royal Grove were pretty much institutions that no longer exist.
Well, they didn't circle the park, but there was another slow ride on an elevated track that circled the entire pool. The lifts went from one end of kiddie land to the other and back.
Sprite Night with Hot Scott from sweet 98! Man those were fun times
I worked at Peony Park late 70’s! It was the best place to work for a teenager during that time.😊
I believe they also had a Sky Ride that circled overhead a great portion of the park.. I love that Skyride, bumper cars as well... and of course the games- of -chance to win some type of prize stuffed animal or so
The good old days! Grew up in Omaha and went there many times!
I live in omaha. :)
Thank you for making this video! I was just randomly remembering Peony Park as I visited a handful of times as a kid in the late 80s/early 90s and remember a “Where in the World is Carmen San Diego” trivia question and the answer was Peony Park!
I grew up with this. Peony Park was what we had as kids. This was a great day spent as a kid with your parents or...
I went there often as a kid with the family in the late 70s and 80s mostly when they had a ticket entry sale. It was great fun and will never forget it. Too bad it no longer exists.
My dad was from Omaha and I still have family there. I have fond memories of visiting Peony Park in the spring/summers in the early 90's :)
And a mini train I believe they had a mini train..
But ultimately the greatest thrill was the swimming "hole".. I liked it when I reached the platform
I went there as a kid I lived in Missouri Valley Iowa. I remember the roller coaster and the car track that overlooked the pool when u went on it. The spring fed pool was good size too. Nothing like a big pool to cool off in that Nebraska humid heat 🥵
Peony Park mascot was a skunk. People actually wore the suit.
I lived in Omaha from '76 to '79 and I drove by the park often but not once did I ever think about spending an afternoon there. I worked at Metro Tech Community College and I do not remember if anyone ever talked about the park. I am sure I would have had fun had I gone. The smaller amusement parks like these have not survived well. I think the development of the theme parks like Six Flags and Worlds of Fun had a lot to do with this. I now live near Wichita, and many years ago it too lost its beloved amusement park, Joyland.
thats where I work. I was trying to show my wife about Peony park and just saw your comment. what did you do for Metro?
So sad, I lived in Omaha in the 70's. :(
Michael Cosyn Group yes the same roller coaster is at Palace Playland in Old Orchard Beach ME now it was form 1994-2017 then it was replaced with the sea viper
That land became worth so much money they had to sell. Many memories.
Nicely done.
It tried becoming a members' club post Civil Rights.;
Solid B+ effort
I live in the neighborhood and didn't know it was a theme park
omg I remember it :(
I live in omaha...when i was a kid my dads employer held company picnics along with other companies did same thing. We all had conagra matching shirts. They didnt mention the accidents peony had. ? My volume on this tablet sucks... We had fun...but people were dying from malfunction of roller coaster and they shut down park one year. We went a year after that and they had another incident and we were done with peony park after reopening again. Then it became funplex.
There’s no way that was original film of the roller coaster. Must be of some other existing similar platform.
The narrator says "in 1884 Karl Rosenfield created a large 25 acre garden". This is inaccurate as Karl Rosenfield was not born until 1889. It was his father John Frederick Larson that created it and it was not in 1884. At least not on the south side of Cass Street. The original location of his first peony farm was near West Point Nebraska in Cuming County. He did not move to the Cass Street location until about 1912-1913. By 1919 or a little earlier, John moved off and son Karl had already moved to California by 1918. John Frederick Larson assumed the name Rosenfield by the time of the 1900 Census. He was born in Sweden in 1855. The home that he (John Frederick Larson Rosenfield) lived in while tending the peony farm south of Cass, still exists to this day.
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The young man who speaks in this video needs to learn this. Frankly, it was awful.