Talk:Freedomland U.S.A.

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[edit] A few other aspects of Freedomland's failure

I added a little on the fact that Freedomland was difficult to access by subway, then and now the traditional means to access most city amusements. Perhaps they hoped for a tonier audience by automobile, but people who drove could just as easily get to many other attractions not nearly as expensive as Freedomland. Freedomland had some of the same problems as the NY World's Fair of 1964-65: ambitious, crowded and expensive, with just about everything requiring you to open your wallet, as opposed to traditional Coney amusement parks, where you either had bargain tickets and lots of freebies, or else independent competitive amusements. I think Freedomland's builders betted too heavily that the auto was the wave of the future even in New York City

Freedomland's decline reminds me a bit of Dreamland, which went through a similar cycle of relatively high-class entertainment giving way to more typical amusement and quick demise. -- Cecropia 08:19, 28 February 2006 (UTC)