Resource Type

[Photograph 2012.201.B1259.0065]

Caption: "Back on the tack after a damaging Memorial Day fire go the cars of Springlake Park's roller coaster." Four men lowering a roller coaster car onto the tracks.
Date: June 10, 1960
Creator: Albright, Bob
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.5911]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma City Times newspaper. Caption: "Scorched Wall of the L-shaped "fireproof building" at Springlake Amusement Park stood on N Eastern after a fire swept early Monday. The building housed the roller coaster trains, fun house, electric"Bumper" cars and the shooting gallery."
Date: 1960
Creator: Tapscott, George
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.5912]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Unscheduled Attraction at Springlake Amusement Park is mass of crumpled metal and cinders following an early-morning fire that wrecked the four-unit building. The structure housed the park's fun house, electric "Bumper" cars and shooting gallery. Also ruined was the roller coaster building. Marvin Staton, park manager, said the concrete and steel building was supposedly "fireproof." The building was partially covered by insurance. The structure was erected in 1946 after a 1945 blaze destroyed the original building. The fire touched off several thousands of rounds of ammunition in the shooting gallery, but no one was injured."
Date: May 30, 1960
Creator: Albright, Bob
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History