September 4, 1967 – It is a day that ends another
season at Riverview Park, a final Labor Day fling at a park that has delighted
visitors for 64 seasons, ever since auto dealer George Schmidt started the
amusement park in order to attract visitors to his dealership on the east side
of Western Avenue. There is the Star
Time Frolics Parade with its floats, elephants, marching bands, and dancers to
ring down the curtain on another year at the gritty carnival that sits on the
Chicago River just south of Belmont Avenue.
This weekend is a time for end-of-summer fun, but this will be it for
Riverview. Less than a month later, the
property will be gone for good, sold to the La Salle Street Investment Group
for an estimated 6.5 million dollars.
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I remember that year this happened and the reason why - rising crime in the park. I, as a child, was a victim there that year too. Very sad memory.
That must be the Henry Grebe boatyard in the foreground. The boatyard was the center of a book I tried to write many years ago, long before I knew how to write.
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