The park stopped operating because of rising utility and operational costs and competition from the city-owned HemisFair Plaza.
TV commercials during Saturday morning cartoon shows and newspaper ads asked:"What's all the screaming about?"A 1980 advertisement in the San Antonio Evening News for Playland Park.A half-day on Playland’s spinning amusement rides in 1975 helped seal Kelli Waltz’s lifelong friendship with Ruth Williams. The pair went to the amusement park on her 10th birthday.
The park opened in 1941 at Brackenridge Park, then moved the next year to 2222 N. Alamo Street near Broadway. For Black families in San Antonio, the park was only open once a year, and only to celebrate Juneteenth, the holiday that commemorates emancipation from slavery in Texas on June 19, 1865. The park remained segregated until the mid-1960s.
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