Lagoon History ProjectAlthough Lagoon wasn’t open daily in May, there were busloads of school kids streaming through the park during many weekdays as well as national dance championship contestants during the first three weekends. Here’s a rundown of what happened in May: A new 30-second TV spot was released The Campground opened for the season on May […]
How did an aircraft company become a major amusement ride manufacturer when most of their rides didn’t even look like airplanes? It all started with an aspiring pilot and lifelong tinkerer. Born in Illinois in 1892, Lee Eyerly had a natural curiosity for machines. When he was a teenager, he and his family moved to […]
The arrival of Spring has brought with it the opening of Lagoon as well as the usual volatile weather patterns. Occasionally, the warm, sunny days have coincided with Lagoon’s weekend-only pre-season operating schedule. Although March 25 was rainy and cold and many rides were closed, there were several visible changes since last fall and new […]
There’s an old documentary about amusement parks called America Screams which aired on PBS in 1978. It was an hour long, but was later whittled down to a half hour when it was released on VHS. This edited version can be seen on YouTube. (The Lagoon sequence starts at the 7:30 mark and ends about […]
The end of October brought the end of Frightmares as well as the end of an eventful 2016 season. Crowds showed no signs of slowing down, especially on Saturdays. Perhaps the mild weather had something to do with it. Attendance reportedly reached record-breaking levels in mid-October. Dinosaur Drop returned around the middle of the month, […]
Another month has flown by and we’re now in the final month of the 2016 season. September was a month of transition from daily summer operation to weekend operation, cooler weather and Frightmares! Here’s what else happened in September. The car show returned to Lagoon on Labor Day weekend after a few years without the […]
August is over, kids are back in school and summer seems to have come to a complete stop. But there are still two months left before Lagoon closes for the year and there has still been a lot of activity at the park. A new gift shop opened in the newly re-purposed game building near […]
As we pass the halfway point of the 2016 season, there are still plenty of new updates and changes at Lagoon. At the beginning of the month, the billboard south of Lagoon off of I-15 was changed once again to a very simple, yet bold design. The biggest event of the month was the celebration […]
Lagoon has reached an impressive milestone this year. Thirteen decades have passed since it began as the Lake Park Bathing Resort on the eastern shore of the Great Salt Lake. In that time, Earth has orbited the sun one hundred and thirty times and traveled millions trillions of miles. Considering the oldest person alive today […]
Things warmed up in June with rising temperatures and the new night show Anyway You Want It! The show, set in the 1980s, follows a group of girls trying to save their roller skating rink from being turned into an all male exercise club. The classic music that ties it together is performed by Lagoon’s […]