thecircusblog | March 21, 2016
Lakemont Park in it’s day was most likely a most beautiful place to visit. The people of Altoona, PA, were extremely proud of their park and rightfully so. It was heaven for school children and young couples often took advantage of it’s romantic atmosphere to propose in marriage and older patrons walked among the hundreds of natural […]
thecircusblog | March 21, 2016
thecircusblog | March 21, 2016
The Casino still exists to this day. However the trees are gone. They were cut down many years ago to expand the park for more amusement rides…. not a good thing to do and the public resented it. I never got to see the true beauty of the park except for these post cards and other photos […]
thecircusblog | March 21, 2016
thecircusblog | March 21, 2016
The Lakemont Park pool was the hi light of the park. The water was often like ice but it did not stop the fun. In 1988 it was nothing more than cement bowl. The Capell family opened the park without the pool. It was in their mind to repair it as we knew that it would be […]
thecircusblog | March 21, 2016
This is one of many billboards that were put up throughout Blair County.
thecircusblog | March 21, 2016
The gentlemen in this photo are unknown to me. It was during the time when the Thompson family were running the park.
thecircusblog | March 21, 2016
The train station had a dual purpose. One for loading passengers and in winter to store the train from the harmful snow and rain.
thecircusblog | March 21, 2016
In 1988 we discovered that there was a small station that needed repair but it didn’t have a train. Bill Capell, then went to an amusement park that he knew of and bought a beautiful train from Tammy Fay Baker. The personal joke among ourselves was that we renamed it “The Mascara Express”.
