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Your going to have to find some old folk to get some memories of the highlands....... I was 9 when it burned...... I was taken there when I was a kid but can barely remember it.... Chain of Rocks park is the one I remember..... The one thing I did notice in the video is how thin everybody was...... Could it be because here was no fast food back then.....??

And there was a pool at Chain Of Rocks and The Mad Mouse which were my favorites

Hey, I didn't tell God I wanted to be born yet.. we were still working out my destiny.. Can you come into the era starting 1969 - present? I am well educated there.

I think there was an attempt to rebuild the Highlands...... I remember that the Rollercoaster and Ferris Wheel stood for a long time after the fire before it was finally torn down..........

Hey John don't let them yell at you.... I eat lean pockets on the run all the time.... I usually have them for Brunch when I am on the run.... Keeps me going for hours..... Have never tried the one that is recalled though.....

The comet has been the only roller coaster I have ever been on. Remember the arcade? I was getting ready to turn 9 the yr. it burned. I remember the fire, I remember going with someone, possibly a neighbor to watch it.
We sat in Forest Park and I remember my mom crying. I went to Mullanphy and yep, first the parade all around the neighborhood, then getting on the chartered bi-state busses for the ride to the Highlands. I don't remember the pool, I remember the one at the Chain of Rocks tho. I do remember the dance floor, I wasn't allowed to dance there either, my mom thought I was too young.

The Bobsled, at Forest Park, was scared to death of it. Had many summer visits there. When we went to School picinc 5.00 was a fortune. I watched it burn in 1963 from the ballfields across the street. It was the summer before I was a senior, so long ago.

Where was it located? Especially that olympic sized pool? In Forest Park obviously, but where in Forest Park? They need to rebuild that.

Hello

I ma looking for any good books on the Highlands or video. I am also looking for any sketches or drawing. I once saw a draw of a local artist, the did a picture of the Highlands Amusement Park. My mother turns 70 this year and talk about this place while I was growing up. I would like to give back a little of her childhood to her.

The Bobsled was over by the merry-go-round. The last I remember of it was when I was in about 4th grade, that would have been 55 years ago. I think there was an accident at one time where someone got hurt. It was a ride made of silver tubing and it was high up,but when you are are kid everthing is high up. Also there was an airplane ride.

Daffy
I just got an email today from a friend...it had alot of postcard type pics in it of the Highlands....

http://members.aol.com/fphdoug/late.html

Hopefully this will get you some info if this link works....

I only went there a couple times for school picnics...we didnt have a car back then ....I remember going on a rented school bus for the picnic, and my mom had to get a ride from someone.

My cousin drove us to Chain of Rocks once, and I think my grade school, Shaw, on The Hill, went there for school picnics after Highlands burned...but without a car ..it was way too far to get there.

There was a place called Holliday Hills or something like that, that was used for school picnics also.