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My last posting on Frontier Village, San Jose's beloved little old west theme park, we concluded our tour of the park. You may be asking yourself what ever became of this little park and why haven't I heard about it before.  Well, Frontier Village closed in 1980 and was torn down shortly afterward. Why did Frontier Village close?  Many factors went into the closure of Frontier Village. First off, increased competition from a new large theme park in Santa Clara "Marriott's Great America".  Great America being at least four times the size of Frontier Village, could offer something that Frontier Village could not, size. Great America was much closer and much more modern.  Great America made it's debut in 1976 and was backed by a huge hotel conglomerate with deep pockets.  The Marriott corp... 10/09/2008

Okay now that we have explored the Badlands on Stagecoach and Train excursions, now is the time to explore some other transportation methods that could be found in Frontier Village. Old 99 was a small train ride where the little kids could become the engineers of their own steam engine train.  There were no cars following the engines, just the little cartoon looking steam engines.  They would go around at a very slow speed around a small circuit of track.  If I remember there was a small bell that you could pull the rope and make it go clang, clang, clang as you went around engineering your train around. Near Old 99 was the Antique Autos ride.  These small cars would travel around on a small circuit concrete roadway.  These were electric powered by bus bar and were fun to drive.  They h... 10/05/2008

In my last blog on the defunct amusement park, we had just taken the Apache Whirlwind and Canoes for a ride. In this episode of my blog we will explore the wilderness of Frontier Village.  There were many ways of getting out there.  The best was by the train.  You could catch the train at where else, the train station at the front of the park.  The train would travel out of the town area and head toward the real train tracks along Monterey Highway.  Once beyond the main part of the park and clearing the lake it would make the turn back into what was called on the maps as "The Badlands".  It was landscaped enough where you couldn't see much of the park beyond the lake.  It felt like you had actually gone into the wilderness of the frontier. There was a creaky old tunnel that the train wo... 10/04/2008

In my last blog on the defunct amusement park, we had just reached the Sidewinder and the Stampede rides. Beyond that was the one ride that was the farthest back on the walking paths.  It was the Apache Whirlwind Rollercoaster.  The Apache Whirlwind was added in the last years of Frontier Village's existence.  It wasn't very tall by rollercoaster standards; in fact it rather hugged the landscape.  For what it lacked in height it made up in speed and twisty turns. It was powered by way of an electric bus bar and was going from the instant it left the station.  It would make about three cycles of the circuit and get faster and faster as it traveled around. There was a small outdoor amphitheater near the Apache Whirlwind.  The seats were situated around a small cove on the shoreline of the... 10/04/2008

We have spent the last two blog postings exploring the Town Square and Main Street areas of Frontier Village. Now at the end of main street opened up a vista of the lake off to your left side.  On your right you still had some exciting things ahead. I remember in this area there was an area where you could go panning for GOLD.  It was always fun to do because your hand would get wet and on a hot summer day that was always fun to play in the water. To the right was where the fishing pond was located.  It where you could drop in a fishing line and catch a rainbow trout for you dinner.   I never liked doing that because I as a small kid would only like to catch tuna fish sandwiches or school lunch room fish sticks. The waterfall that trickled down into the fishing pond was built on the sid... 10/03/2008

In my last blog on this subject we had just entered San Jose's Frontier Village and were still in front of the train station. Just over the train tracks and to your right was a path that went behind some of the buildings that were on the Main Street.  This path lead to two of the most fun rides at Frontier Village, The Stampede and Tarantula!  The Stampede was a flat spinning ride where the riders would board a long bench like seat that was mounted with two other benches like spokes on a wheel.  That wheel would be connected to other wheels connected to a central hub and the entire contraption would spin. The Tarantula came later and was also a spinning flat ride.  This time the riders rode in bucket like contraptions that closed up around your feet and locked you in.  The Tarantula wou... 10/02/2008