Post #112183 by Gigantalope on Fri, Sep 3, 2004 12:09 AM

The park you are asking about WAS Atlantis, and it's famous attraction was the Dragonslide. I think it was in Garden Grove, but I will do a bit of research and find out more for sure.

Japanese Deer Park was great. A bunch of my Dad's business chronies started a Sister City program between Garden Grove and some city in Japan...exchanging an Orange Tree for a Cherry Tree...

One of the weird exchange gifts was a pair of white Japanese Ducks..they looked like regular ducks but didn't quack. They made squeaks.

Their eventual home was Japanese Deer Park, after wrecking havoc on our home for a year or two...I remember letting them go...it was sad and happy.

In the late '70s there was a great little pub called "Zeb's Boat House" is that place still there? It was like a weird old attic.

That Spaghetti Western place opened in 1980 or 1980, and was VERY liberal about trying to get College kids from OCC and GWC to make it their roost.
They sent many free passes for dinner and drinks which were supposed to be placed in the college newspapers...but instead were used by the Journalism Staff for weeks at a time.

There was also a great place I think called Newport Dunes where you could swim in some lagoon...It had fiberglass whales that I loved. I suppose it's gone now...along with the Go Cart track on Harbor by the Van's Shoe Store.

I'm tearing up...