Dave, Greetings, re: Riverview; by any chance do you have pix of the WWII Army barracks near the park? My folks bought one as a prefab & moved it to Lake Osterhout outside Grand Junction, MI (near South Haven) in the 1970s. Dad had gone on disability (heart) & he & our mom spent their last years there. He & the present owner have remodeled it & you'd never tell what it was originally. Thanx, Walt God Bless Walter McElligott <wmcauth07@juno.com> My ebook "A Blessed Bethlehem Birth" told by Abraham and Anna Mousenstern is at <http://www.guardianangelpublishing.com/blessedbirth.htm> =================================================================== Message: 2 Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 07:17:31 -0800 (PST) From: David Buzzek <dbuzzek@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: [COOK-CO-IL] Riverview closing - 1967 To: Colleen Flood <cjflood@comcast.net>, "'Tom Mueller'" <tommcclib@yahoo.com>, cook-co-il@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <841126.63249.qm@web56201.mail.re3.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 I agree that crime was the underlying factor in the closing of Riverview. My brother worked at the park and was mugged in one of the arcades by a gang of the "new" customers. I have a photo taken at one of the picture arcades of my mother at about 2 years of age with her family and neighbors on the back of a train display. This would have been about 1912. Dave B