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Playland Park (Houston, Texas)
Playland Park was an amusement park located in Houston, Texas operating between 1940 and 1967. Louis Slusky opened Playland Park circa 1940 at 9200 South Main. It is popularly remembered for its wooden roller coaster, The Skyrocket. Texas' first elevated monorail train (1956) briefly operated near the park. Next to the park was an adjoining stock-car race track known as Playland Speedway. Slusky also facilitated the miniature children’s train located in Houston’s Hermann Park. This train may have originated from Playland Park. Playland Park closed in 1967.
Playland Park, Houston should not be confused with the Playland Park located in San Antonio, Texas which started around the same time and later had a wooden roller coaster similarly named The Rocket.
==The Skyrocket==
The Skyrocket was a wooden roller coaster relocated to Playland Park and opened on September, 1941. Originally opened in 1924 at Houston’s former Luna Park, at that time it was billed as the “largest” roller coaster in the country with a reported length of 6,600 feet, height of 110 feet and a drop of 87 feet. The original construction cost (1924) was $75,000. The relocation from Luna Park to Playland Park is believed to be the last Roller Coaster project John A. Miller was involved with. Miller passed away in Houston in 1941 while working on this project.
The roller coaster, now claiming to be the largest in the South, appears to have been operational until some time between 1962 and 1964. By 1964 the roller coaster was partially removed and no longer operational. This was to make room for a new large building behind the park where the race track was formerly located. The remainder of the roller coaster was torn down after the park finally closed.
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