Your editor has been digging out images from slides and pictures from many decades shot and scanned from my snap-happy father. I had rediscovered them after my better half purchased a scanner for all of them to be saved forever. I will always thank her for that. Parsing through them over several months, many images and locations were well-known, but there were quite a few that I don’t recall or have seen. It was a months-long effort to arrange them, but worth every minute.
Relevant to this post, out of some of these images, a place popped up that I had never heard of, and certainly didn’t recall visiting, but who knows? It’s Kennywood park as you’ll see in the image above It intrigued me to what the story was now in 2025, or did it go the way of so many similar endeavors. Surprisingly, Kennywood park is still up and thriving. Kennywood is an amusement park in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania, just southeast of Pittsburgh. The park opened on May 30, 1898, as a trolley park attraction at the end of the Mellon family’s Monongahela Street Railway. That is some endurance.
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