Space_City_USA

Space City USA

Space City USA

Defunct planned theme park in Alabama

For other uses, see Space City.

Space City USA was a planned theme park near Huntsville, Alabama. Located adjacent to Lady Ann Lake between Huntsville and Decatur, the $5 million (at the time) project was planned starting in 1959 as "Time World". Construction began in 1963 but the project was abandoned three years later, before the park could be opened.[1] (The park property is now inside the Madison and Huntsville city limits.) Built around a space travel theme, popular at the time, theming also included "Lost World" with dinosaur models, a simulated moon colony, a "Land of Oz", and an Old South section.[2][3]

logo from 1963 booklet

References

  1. [1]
    McCarter, Mark (February 18, 2015). "Huntsville's Space City USA: Failure to launch a history lesson for Shoals theme park developers?". The Huntsville Times. Huntsville, AL: Advance Publications. Retrieved February 25, 2015.
  2. [2]
    Storey, Deborah (March 18, 2012). "Space City, amusement park proposed in 1960s, was never completed". The Huntsville Times. Huntsville, AL: Advance Publications. Retrieved February 25, 2015.
  3. [3]
    Hollis, Tim (1999). Dixie Before Disney: 100 Years of Roadside Fun. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi. ISBN 1578061180.

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