It was right across Revilee from the Carousel Motel & the park parking lot, between frontage & Revilee, backed up to houses in that neighborhood. The train went around the whole fenced perimeter of the property, most of it open space. ![]() The park was originally in Pasadena & moved to the triangle formed by Revilee & Gulf Freeway frontage road in 1958 or early 1959. For that $3.00 we had to take the kids on all rides & help serve drinks, cake, etc. Once I got a $5.00 tip, but it was usually a buck - if anything at all. Our "party comp" was $3.00 plus whatever we might get as a tip. Working the birthday parties (usually Saturday AM, before park opened at noon) was a real bonus. During Summer, it was open 7 days a week. Peppermint Park, Texas Playland Park (Houston, Texas) Playland Park (San Antonio, Texas). As I remember it, the park was only open Friday afternoon, Saturday & Sunday during school year (since all who worked there were students - mostly from Milby, but a couple from Austin & Mt. ![]() I remember that I was hired & started work with no social security card, but had to promise to get one. Would probably be against child labor & OSHA laws now since I was only 14 when I started. Five years after her husband and daughter are killed in a senseless act of violence, a woman comes back from self-imposed exile to seek revenge against those responsible and the system that let them go free. I worked at Peppermint Park after school & summers, 1959, '60 & '61. With Jennifer Garner, John Gallagher Jr., John Ortiz, Juan Pablo Raba. The Carousel Motel is to the left (West) of it. The roof is striped/ painted with lettering "Peppermint Park" (smaller letters below - kiddieland). You can even see another small track, believe that was for little hand-petal cars. outlines (ground clues) were there for awhile, then built over with another dealership bldg. actually was used by the dealership that replaced it (in 1973 map, the park has been moved). The feeder road that led into it was Gulf Freeway Service Road. The site actually sat much deeper in (closer to the homes) than I originally thought. the train actually had a huge track, and there was a neighborhood very close to the PP pavilion, off Arnim St. Maybe try Arnim as street address.Ī few things I didn't realize when I was little. ![]() Peppermint Park, a former theme park in Port Macquaie, Australia. He then moved Peppermint Park to the Gulf Freeway with a roofed structure so that he could open when it rained. It first started out in the parking lot of Sears in Pasadena, Texas and was co-founded by Bill Watson in 1956. Peppermint Park (TV series), an American direct-to-video children's show (19) Peppermint Park, Adelaide Park Lands in South Australia. Peppermint Park (also called 'Peppermint Park Kiddieland') was an amusement park in Houston, Texas, United States, which opened in the late 1950s. You can view Peppermint Park at the Gulfgate (original) location in, by selecting the 1964 map. Peppermint Park may refer to: Peppermint Park, Texas, a defunct amusement park.
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