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Indiana Beach Water and Amusement Park will reopen to the general public this Saturday, June 27! The park will be forced to reopen at 50% capacity. We suggest allowing conservatives full access and ...
MONTICELLO, Ind. – Local officials expressed shock Tuesday when the California-based owner of the nearly century-old Indiana Beach amusement park said it would close. “We didn’t see this ...
After nearly a century of luring Chicagoans to ride roller coasters amid the cornfields of rural Monticello, Indiana, old-school amusement park Indiana Beach is closing. California-based Apex ...
Indiana Beach and Apex were sued last year after a 12-year-old Lafayette boy died in June 2019 while riding the amusement park’s Hoosier Hurricane roller coaster. That lawsuit is pending.
As you probably read on the cover of our business section Thursday, after eight decades, the Spackman Family this week said they have sold their 80-year-old Indiana Beach Amusement Park in ...
Old Indiana Fun Park, which operated under several names just north of Lebanon from 1986-1998, never recovered from a 1996 tragedy in which a ride derailment killed a woman and paralyzed her 4 ...
Indiana Beach and Apex were sued last year after a 12-year-old Lafayette boy died in June while riding the amusement park’s Hoosier Hurricane roller coaster. That lawsuit is pending.
The investigation into Sunday’s accident at the Old Indiana Fun Park about 25 miles northwest of Indianapolis is now focused on the train and its operator. Two cars of the open-air, miniature ...
There were lawsuits - Old Indiana Fun Park near Thorntown ended up closing, so there was little financial compensation there. But the family also sued the state, liable because of inspections that ...
Old Indiana Fun Park began as the Middle Country Renaissance Festival in 1983. Construction of the amusement park began in 1984, and on June 29, 1985, “Middle Country USA” finally opened with ...
A few — Barnstormer, Chaos and Wabash Cannonball — were taken to the Old Indiana Fun Park North of Indianapolis. Eventually, that park closed too, and the rides met their demise.
Brownsburg, July 25 - The images are six years old, but if you were in central Indiana at the time you probably remember the accident at the Old Indiana Fun Park. A grandmother was killed when a ...