Kennywood Park Entrance
Jan 15 2007 at 11:37am EST
When I was a kid, there were two large amusement parks in the Pittsburgh area - Westood and Kennywood. Only Kennywood Park remains.

Kennywood is really in West Mifflin, about 10 miles from downtown Pittsburgh. Kennywood is one of two amusement parks listed in the National Register of Historic Places, the other being Coney Island. It was founded in 1898 as a small trolley park begun by the Monongahela Street Railway Company, which was controlled by Andrew Mellon.

We had our yearly school picnics at Kennywood. We rode the trolley to get there and it seemed to take forever! Dad would join us after work and not long after eating dinner we'd have to call it a day. We loved it when we got old enough to go to Kennywood without parents. Then we could stay into the night, when riding roller coasters is really fun.
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