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(More customer reviews)This author has gone through great pains to make this book a very nice history of a park we all thought would make us forget Disneyland. Very, very well done and factual. Answers a lot of questions about how this great park came to be and what ultimately happened to end the park's short but memorable era. I read this in one sitting because I could not put it down.
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Billed as BostonÂ's answer to Disneyland, Pleasure Island opened on June 22, 1959. William Hawkes, president of Childlife Magazine, and executives at Cabot, Cabot and Forbes collaborated with Marco Engineering of Los Angeles to build what was called the Â"Disneyland of the East.Â" Pleasure Island rose from the wetlands off of Route 128 into an 80-acre theme park. Through photographs, Pleasure Island recalls memories of boat rides to Pirate Cove, searching for the great white whale, driving a Jenney car, getting dizzy in the Slanty Shanty, and taking a ride on Old Smoky. At Pleasure Island, children and children at heart entered into a world that traditional amusement parks could not provide, where character actors continually put on a show and the entire park was the stage.
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