{"id":9651,"date":"2020-06-27T17:18:19","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T23:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lagoonhistory.com\/project\/?page_id=9651"},"modified":"2026-02-23T19:23:41","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T02:23:41","slug":"the-midway","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/lagoonhistory.com\/project\/attractions\/the-midway\/","title":{"rendered":"The Midway"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Detail from a 1957 Lagoon ad.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

CURRENT MIDWAY ATTRACTIONS<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Games<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

CENTRAL MIDWAY<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

For the purposes of this website, the Central Midway is delineated by the original Midway area from the Carousel and Roller Coaster to the old Patio Gardens building.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Carousel<\/a>
Dracula’s Castle<\/a>
Game Time
Roller Coaster<\/a>
Terroride<\/a>
Tidal Wave<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

NORTH MIDWAY<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Air Race<\/a>
Boomerang<\/a>
Cannibal<\/a>
Centennial Screamer<\/a>
Flying Aces<\/a>
Paratrooper<\/a>
Samurai<\/a>
Sky Ride (North)<\/a>
Sky Scraper<\/a>
Space Scrambler<\/a>
Tilt-A-Whirl<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

SOUTH MIDWAY<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Carousel Theater
Colossus: The Fire Dragon<\/a>
Lagoon Biergarten
Musik Express<\/a>
Nutcracker<\/a>
Rock-O-Plane<\/a>
Sky Ride (South)<\/a>
The Spider<\/a>
Wicked<\/a>
Wild Kingdom Train<\/a>
Wild Mouse (1998)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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View of the Midway lights from the top of the Ferris Wheel, ca. 1957-64. Photo: Paige Crandall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

FORMER MIDWAY ATTRACTIONS<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Animaland Train
Auto Skooter<\/a>
Bump-The-Bumps
Cliffhanger<\/a>
Cyclone<\/a>
Dancing Pavilion
Dodgem<\/a>
Ferris Wheel<\/a>
Flying Carpet<\/a>
Flying Jennie
Flying Saucer<\/a>
Flying Swings<\/a>
Fun House (Original)<\/a>
Fun House (1957)<\/a>
Funni-Cycle
The Ghost Train<\/a>
Golf-Fun<\/a>
Haunted Shack<\/a>
Hydro-Luge<\/a>
Jet Star 2<\/a>
Joy Wheel
Krazy Kups<\/a>
Lagoon Music Theatre<\/a>
The Looper<\/a>
Merry Mixup
Miniature Railroad
Motorboats
Octopus<\/a>
Patio Gardens<\/a>
Penny Arcade
Putter Around The Park<\/a>
Rockets \/ Captive Aeroplane<\/a>
Roll-O-Plane<\/a>
Roller Skating Rink
The Rotor<\/a>
Satellite<\/a>
Scenic Railway
Shoot-The-Chutes
Showboat<\/a>
Sky Slide<\/a>
Speedway, Sr.<\/a>
Spook House<\/a>
Tri-Star<\/a>
The Tumbler<\/a>
Turn Of The Century<\/a>
UFO<\/a>
Water Skeeters<\/a>
The Whip<\/a>
Whirlwind<\/a>
Wild Mouse<\/a>
Zugspitz<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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OTHER AREAS<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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Kiddieland \/ Mother Gooseland<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n
Opera House Square<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n
Pioneer Village<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n
Lagoon-A-Beach<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n
X-Venture Zone<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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CURRENT MIDWAY ATTRACTIONS Games CENTRAL MIDWAY For the purposes of this website, the Central Midway is delineated by the original Midway area from the Carousel and Roller Coaster to the old Patio Gardens building. CarouselDracula’s CastleGame TimeRoller CoasterTerrorideTidal Wave NORTH MIDWAY Air RaceBoomerangCannibalCentennial ScreamerFlying AcesParatrooperSamuraiSky Ride (North)Sky ScraperSpace ScramblerTilt-A-Whirl SOUTH MIDWAY Carousel TheaterColossus: The Fire […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":3,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9651","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lagoonhistory.com\/project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lagoonhistory.com\/project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lagoonhistory.com\/project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lagoonhistory.com\/project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lagoonhistory.com\/project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9651"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/lagoonhistory.com\/project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19829,"href":"https:\/\/lagoonhistory.com\/project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9651\/revisions\/19829"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lagoonhistory.com\/project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lagoonhistory.com\/project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}