The Legendary Action Park
If you grew up in the Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York area during the mid 80’s to early 90’s there was a magical place called Action Park full of all kinds of adventure that even I, at the tender ages of 10 to 15, already understood to be highly dubious.
The place was great! They had tanks you could ride in that shot tennis balls, and for a measely quarter you too, could shoot at the tanks from the sidelines. You could also shoot anybody unwise enough to be in the kill zone without a tank wrapped about their bodies. They had bumper boats in a water snake infested pond, go karts, and for those of us 16 years old there were mini Indy 500 cars. And that’s just the dangers on the “Motor World” side of the park. Read the rest of this entry »