A Ticket to Ride: The History of Rocky Point Park | Down the Rhode

Описание: During the warm summer months especially, it's nice to get out and enjoy the natural beauty of the land around us. But if you're a Rhode Islander of a certain age, you probably have completely different memories of Rocky Point. Come along on a little stroll Down the Rhode as we talk about the history of Rocky Point Park in Warwick Rhode Island!

0:00 Opening
0:28 Introduction
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1:33 Thomas Stafford Jr. in the 1800's
1:43 William Winslow in the 1840's
1:53 First Outings and Clambakes at Rocky Point
2:09 Byron Sprague's Vision: A Playground for the Rich
2:39 Steamship Company Takes Over
2:50 More Improvements and Amusements
3:07 Rutherford B. Hayes and the First Presidential Phone Call
3:37 Randal Augustus Harrington in the 1880's
3:53 Baseball and Illegal Sunday Games!
4:05 Babe Ruth and the Home Run Into the Ocean
4:20 The Railroad Arrives
4:44 The 1938 Hurricane and Aftermath
5:11 Hurricane Carol in 1954
5:22 The Ferla Family Takes Over
5:38 Reopening and Regrowth
6:05 A Popular Music Venue
6:31 The Saltwater Pool
7:11 New Rides and Attractions! The Flume is Added
7:24 A Piece of the World's Fair Comes to Rocky Point
7:43 The Loop Corkscrew Arrives in 1984
7:55 The Freefall
8:06 The Long Decline
8:17 Bankruptcy and Auction in 1996
8:28 The Rides Live-On!
8:50 Decades of Decay
9:22 The Shoreline Reopens in 2011
9:33 Reclaiming the Interior and a New State Park in 2014
9:46 What Remains Today
10:12 Reconciling the Past with the Future
10:30 Latest Improvements as of 2021
10:52 George LaCross, David Bettencourt, and Sean McCarthy
11:36 Exhibition at the Warwick Center for the Arts in 2019
11:47 A Thriving State Park
11:59 Closing and Outro
12:42 BONUS Slideshow

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If you enjoyed this episode, you may also like some of my other episodes and shorts related to Rocky Point:
Rocky Point Clam Cakes & Chowder! | Eat Local RI #2 -    • Rocky Point Clam Cakes & Chowder! | Rhody ...  
The Rocky Point Arch: History and Rare Video | Rhode Sides -    • The Rocky Point Arch: History and Rare Vid...  
1975 Rocky Point Radio Commercial | Lil' Bits! -    • 1975 Rocky Point Radio Commercial | Lil' B...  
The Rocky Point Corkscrew | Info Lab #6 -    • The Rocky Point Corkscrew | Marc's Misc Vi...  
1984 Rocky Point Corkscrew Opening | Lil' Bits! -    • 1984 Rocky Point Corkscrew Opening | Lil' ...  
1989 Rocky Point TV Commercial | Lil' Bits! -    • 1989 Rocky Point TV Commercial | Lil' Bits!  
Rocky Point Aerial Images, Warwick RI, 1995-2018 | Rhode Sides -    • Rocky Point Aerial Images, Warwick RI, 199...  

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SELECTED SOURCES AND RESOURCES:
[1] "Rocky Point Amusement Park"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_P.... Accessed May 2021
[2] "Rocky Point State Park"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_P.... Accessed May 2021
[3] "You Must Be This Tall: The Story of Rocky Point Park"
   • You Must Be This Tall:  The Story of Rocky...  . Accessed March 2021
[4] "Rocky Point Park (Images of Modern America)" by David Bettencourt, 2015
https://www.amazon.com/Rocky-Point-Im...
[5] "Warwick Man Restores Rocky Point Car"
   • Warwick Man Restores Rocky Point Car  . Accessed June 2021