1960s FREEDOMLAND AMUSEMENT PARK ADV SOUVENIR PLATE

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Please look closely at the picture, read all of the description and terms carefully, and ask any questions you have before bidding. Click to see full size Don't miss your chance to bid on this or our other interesting auctions! See all of our current eBay auctions . Please read more about our company and policies . Please be prompt with payment. Thank you for looking & Good Luck! This Auction Consists Of: A Colorful 1960s Freedomland Amusement Park Advertising Souvenir Plate. Description The picture shows a view of this Colorful 1960s Freedomland Amusement Park Advertising Souvenir Plate. The plate is not dated but it is from between 1960 and 1964. This plate has the park logo in the center and five attraction scenes around it. T is a detailed gold design around the edge. The back is blank and the front is marked as follows: FREEDOMLAND U.S.A. N.Y. TROLLEY CAR CHICAGO FIRE SHOWBOAT CIVIL WAR SANTA FE RAILROAD The plate measures 7-1/4'' wide. It appears to be in mint condition as pictured. Below , for reference, is some Historic information about Freedomland: Freedomland U.S.A. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Freedomland U.S.A. (usually just called Freedomland) was a short-lived, themed amusement park in the Baychester area in the northeastern part of the Borough of The Bronx, New York City. Its slogan was ''The World's Largest Entertainment Center'' (later, ''The World's Largest Outdoor Family Entertainment Center''). Freedomland opened on June 19, 1960. It closed at the end of the 1964 season when it failed to make a profit. Woody and Walt Freedomland was conceived by Cornelius Vanderbilt Wood (1922 âe" 1992), a young Texan, who had previously worked in the planning, construction and management of Disneyland. Hired by Walt Disney in 1953, Wood was the person who selected the orange grove site in Anaheim, California w Disneyland was eventually built. Wood became very close to Disney during the next two years, but eventually the two men had a falling out. Reasons for this are unclear, but three theories exist: Wood was embezzeling money from the park; Wood was taking too much public credit for Disneyland or Wood betrayed Disney by planning his own amusement parks, effectively stealing Disney's original concept. By January of 1956, Wood had been fired from Disneyland. To this day, The Walt Disney Company refuses to acknowledge any role played by him in the creation of the Magic Kingdom. Concept and construction In 1956, the 33 year-old Wood began planning and building three of his own amusement parks across the country. In 1958, Wood opened Magic Mountain near Denver (closed, 1960 but revitalized in 1971), Pleasure Island in Wakefield, Massachusetts in 1959 (closed, 1969) and finally, Freedomland in 1960. Wood's partner was Milton T. (''Ted'') Raynor, a television sports producer and attorney, who served as Freedomland's president. The park's original concept was history based and the layout was arranged in the shape of a large map of the United States. Guests entered at Little Old New York, Freedomland was divided into different themed areas based on the history of The United States, each with its own attractions, shops and restaurants. This made Freedomland a true theme park with one real theme! The research and design team consisted of 200 top artists and architects, including 19 Academy Award nominees. Original music for the park was written by Jule Styne, composer of many Broadway musicals including Gypsy and Funny Girl. Groundbreaking ceremonies for Freedomland took place on August 26, 1959. Disaster struck on March 24, 1960 when six unfinished buildings were demolished by fire and had to be razed. Freedomland was built on the site of a former municipal landfill. Although the property was spread out over 205 acres, the actual amusement park itself was just 85 acres - larger than [Disneyland's 65 acres]. The park could accommodate 32,000 visitors at one time (90,000 during the course of a... read more

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