Podcasts about lakeside amusement park

It's only Wednesday, so we're rounding up a short week of news before the holiday weekend! First, a new investigation from the Denver Post attempts to answer the question of the summer: Why is the Cyclone rollercoaster at Lakeside Amusement Park still closed? Then, concerns linger about just how much money Mayor Johnston is spending on homelessness, especially after SCOTUS's recent ruling on camping bans. Producer Paul Karolyi and host Bree Davies are joined by a returning fave — comedian and Casa Bonita gorilla Joshua Emerson — to discuss all these stories, plus our Rocky Mountain Highs and Lows of the week. Paul promised details on the City of Denver's first-ever drone show for the Fourth of July (July 3, Civic Center Park) and gave a shout out to the Chipotle Boys. Bree mentioned Dozens reopening and Sol Tribe's closure and how to get in touch with tattooists and piercers as they move to new shops. Joshua talked about Denver's dual MVPs, the last days of the Esquire Theatre, and his collaboration “Knowing You, Denver,” opening at the Denver Art Museum this week.  Come party with us on Colfax! RSVP today for the Colfax Indie Bash where we'll be chatting with Mayor Mike Johnston and celebrating all things Colfax on July 18. Get the deets and save the date here! What do you think? Text or leave us a voicemail with your name and neighborhood, and you might hear it on the show: 720-500-5418‬ For even more news from around the city, subscribe to our morning newsletter Hey Denver at denver.citycast.fm. Follow us on Instagram: @citycastdenver Chat with other listeners on reddit: r/CityCastDenver Support City Cast Denver by becoming a member: membership.citycast.fm/Denver Learn more about the sponsors of this episode: Babbel Looking to advertise on City Cast Denver? Check out our options for podcast and newsletter ads at citycast.fm/advertise Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this episode we sit down with the multitalented Zach West to shoot the shit about Lakeside Amusement Park, Zydeco and what it's like being a music teacher. We discuss religion, the best and worst Denver venues, cell phones, travel and the story of how Charla got her rainbow hair! It's a great time with one hell of a musician, educator and artist.https://zachwesti2c2.com/

Football has come to an end!The bathroom boys return to talk the big game halftime show, we definitely had to shout out the late Carl Weathers, sorry but Colorado has more trees than Florida, & Travis remembers his childhood at Lakeside Amusement Park. Make sure the hit that courtesy flush!Audio Accredited by: Ingakhubuaa (https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8TWpJLS/)

We love talking about cool events and things to do around Denver. But there are so many to choose from! Which ones are truly worth your time? Which ones are going to leave you with lasting memories? And which ones are gonna give you so much FOMO? Host Bree Davies and newsletter editor Peyton Garcia each picked four awesome August events to share, and producers Paul Karolyi and Olivia Jewell Love join to help narrow the field down to our best bet of all — the one August event where you're most likely to see us. Here are links to all the events Bree and Peyton recommended: Bree Picks Listening Lawn, August 5 (Carpio Sanguinette Park, Globeville) Hip Hop 'til Infinity, August 11 (Five Points) Globeville Neighborhood Bike Ride, August 20 (Globeville) 5th Annual La Raza Park Day, August 27 (Sunnyside) Peyton's Picks Meow Wolf Monster Battle, August 10 (Cheesman Park) ElevAsian Night Market Fundraiser, August 19 (Auraria) Summer Scream at Lakeside Amusement Park, August 24 (Lakeside) Chicken Fight!, August 24 (Elitch's) For even more news from around the city, subscribe to our morning newsletter Hey Denver by texting “Denver” to 66866 Follow us on the formerly known Twitter: @citycastdenver Or Instagram: @citycastdenver Chat with other listeners on Reddit: r/CityCastDenver Text or leave us a voicemail with your name and neighborhood, and you might hear it on the show: (720) 500-5418‬ Learn more about the sponsors of this episode: Free concerts at Levitt Pavilion Looking to advertise on City Cast Denver? Check out our options for podcast and newsletter ads at citycast.fm/advertise Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A search for clues at Lakeside Amusement Park. A clandestine meeting at Union Station. A round of putt-putt through an old motel. These are scenes from Erika T. Wurth's new indigenous literary horror novel “White Horse,” which sends readers on a fast-paced mystery across Old Denver and beyond. The Apache/Chickasaw/Cherokee author joins host Bree Davies to talk about how she built this literary horror-mystery hybrid from her own experience growing up as an urban Indian around Idaho Springs, and why she chose to take on the gilded legend of The Stanley Hotel — and add her own mythical, indigenous twist to it.  "White Horse” goes on sale tomorrow, and Erika will be speaking and reading from book in Denver twice this week: 5:30 p.m., Nov. 1, Meow Wolf Denver (1338 1st St.) 6:00 p.m., Nov. 3, Tattered Cover on Colfax (2526 E. Colfax Ave.) Subscribe to Hey Denver, our kickass morning newsletter, by texting “Denver” to 66866 What do you think is the creepiest place in Denver? Tweet at us @citycastdenver Got any last-minute questions about your ballot before election day next week? Leave us a voicemail with your name and neighborhood, and we might answer your question on the show: (720) 500-5418‬ Learn more about the sponsors of this episode: Denver Film Festival (11/2 - 11/13) Looking to advertise on City Cast Denver? Check out our options for podcast and newsletter ads at citycast.fm/advertise Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Alex and Michael show continues. They try some beers from Evil Twin/Anchorage Brewing, Liquid Gravity/Altamont, and March First brewing. They talk about beer caves in Iowa and Coors Light being allowed to do Super Bowl commercials again. They also get to talk about Lakeside, a creepy amusement park in Denver, very exciting stuff.  Thanks to New Image brewing for sponsoring the episode. Follow them on Instagram @nibrewing, and follow this link to buy their Fruitlegger series on Tavour AVAILABLE NOW. You can follow New Image Brewing on the Tavour app here as well, do it. Head to our Patreon for weekly exclusive content! Patreon.com/DontDrinkBeer Get the Malt Couture Officially Licensed T-shirt! TeeSpring.com/MaltCoutureOfficialShirt DontDrinkBeer.com Instagram.com/DontDrinkBeers Instagram.com/MaltCoutureDDB Twitter.com/DontDrinkBeer

In this morning's episode, Bree went deep on what makes Casa Bonita special with David Thomas, “professor of fun." But their conversation didn't end there! So here we are with an afternoon bonus episode with Bree and David putting Casa Bonita up against two other fun Denver spots: Meow Wolf's new Convergence Station and Lakeside Amusement Park. If you haven't heard this morning's episode, go listen to that one first! 

The Opening Ceremony of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics is tonight! Yes, they're still calling it that, even though it's definitely 2021. No, there won't be fans in the stands. No, the Japanese public doesn't want this to be happening. Yes, we're feeling as conflicted about it as you are. But Denver's relationship with the Games has always been conflicted. We were the first city to be awarded the Games that turned around and said, “no thanks.” And every 20 years or so since, some group of local boosters has tried to get them back. So today and Monday on the show, as the Tokyo Games get underway, City Cast Denver producer Paul Karolyi is exploring Denver's unique connection with the Olympics. First up, IMA Financial Group CEO and Chairman Robert Cohen. He led the most recent effort to bring the Games to Denver, and he's on the show to share his case for a Denver Olympics.  One hundred dollars. We're giving it away, and it could be yours. All you've got to do is fill out our listener survey! It'll only take a few minutes, and you'll be helping us out a ton: https://denver.citycast.fm/survey/ Did you hear that Lakeside Amusement Park opened for the summer last night? If not, you should really subscribe to our morning newsletter. It's the best way to keep up with all the most important stuff happening in Denver. Get it here: https://denver.citycast.fm/newsletter/ Tweets! Get your tweets here! Fresh hot tweets!

Hop in for a ride with local history columnist Gary Flinn to the halcyon days of flint.  Revisit the contributions of oft-overlooked David Buick, the inventive and invaluable flint auto pioneer who lacked the business savvy to become an auto legend.  Travel back to the original Kewpee Burger and wash it down with an old Vernor’s ginger ale before catching a show at Capitol Theatre.   In the shadow of Flint's success as an industrial hub and the tragedy that is the water crisis that came to a head in 2014, the fascinating past of Flint has been largely forgotten. Local author Gary Flinn showcases the obscure and surprising elements of the Vehicle City's past, such as local Civil War hero Franklin Thompson who was actually Sarah Edmonds in disguise; the city's most prolific inventor, Lloyd Copeman, created the electric stove, flexible ice cube tray and automatic toaster; and even Thread Lake's Lakeside Amusement Park that offered seaplane rides and a giant roller coaster partly built over the water before closing in 1931. Flinn offers the reader the often-overlooked but fascinating history of Flint, including how the 2014 water crisis was a half century in the making. Gary Flinn has written extensively about the glory days of Flint.  His focus on Flint's business history, architectural history and development as a city makes for a fascinating interview.  If you would like to learn more about Flint and Michigan history you can find his books on Amazon: Amazon: Remembering Flint, Michigan: Stories from the Vehicle City (American Chronicles) Paperback – October 4, 2010 Hidden History of Flint Paperback – July 3, 2017 https://www.amazon.com/Hidden-History-Flint-Gary-Flinn/dp/1625858418/ref=pd_bxgy_img_2/145-4211473-3074930?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=1625858418&pd_rd_r=e44b9ef1-1161-4c3f-b6ba-219790203b7c&pd_rd_w=FhxYQ&pd_rd_wg=KWWCq&pf_rd_p=4e3f7fc3-00c8-46a6-a4db-8457e6319578&pf_rd_r=8NFZPJE9XTZJDYA00G5Z&psc=1&refRID=8NFZPJE9XTZJDYA00G5Z --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/radiofreeflint/message

July 12, 2019/8:08 pm / 39.7807912, -105.0539735 / Lakeside Amusement Park / My favorite place in the world! / Lakeside opened in 1908 and still retains much of its original art deco architecture and ambiance / Every summer I savor the nostalgic experience of riding the very same rides that my father and uncles rode as small children in the 1960s / There’s a particular sense of wonderment that comes from the park’s timelessness / As the name implies, Lakeside is set next to a large lake with a beautiful view of the Rocky Mountains behind it / All the rides are paid for with various amounts of 50 cent coupons, making it an affordable alternative to the commercial amusement park in downtown Denver / This recording captures the experience of riding the park’s most popular attraction - a wooden roller coaster from the year 1940 named The Cyclone //

Join us on a wild ride as we discover some of Colorado’s oldest amusement parks. Elitch Gardens, Denver’s most popular park, opened in 1890 and operated as Denver’s first botanic garden, zoo, and motion picture theater. Across town, Lakeside Amusement Park wowed with its Art Deco décor. In Burlington, their speedy animal carousel attracted children of all ages. Discover why these parks are the most thrilling in Colorado.

We're back with our trip to Lakeside Amusement Park, one of the original parks in Colorado still open and operating.

Six Flags made a somewhat surprise announcement this week by signaling an agreement to add five more parks to its US Portfolio. We'll talk about what that means for the company. During our Quick Hits segment, the guys talk about several of this week's most interesting stories in the amusement industry, including:   Hangtime at Knotts Berry Farm has opened Kennywood has installed footers in the lagoon near where the flume used to be. A new roller coaster is coming to Lakeside Amusement Park this summer Sea World Orlando and Busch Gardens Tampa are offering Free Beer this summer. Does that reverse the downturn in attendance?   After some fantastic Live Trip Reports, we take a look at the 2017 Theme Park Attendance Numbers from TEA and AECOM. We'll take a look at trends and see if there are surprises in any of the stats and figures.

In this installment of Changing Denver Bit By Bit, historian David Forsyth tells us a little about what it's like to research the history of Lakeside Amusement Park. Turns out, he's more than the authority on Lakeside history; he's the park's biggest fan! - Our theme song is “Minnow” by Felix Fast4ward. You can listen to more of his music on Soundcloud. Follow us on Twitter at @ChangingDenver and sign up for our newsletter at www.changingdenver.com/about.    If you like this episode, think about writing us a review on iTunes or Stitcher. It's the best way for you to support Changing Denver. Thanks for listening!  

On Changing Denver this month, we head northwest to Lakeside Amusement Park. For more than a century, Lakeside has been a popular destination for people of all ages, but only between May and September. What happens during the park's off-season? Where do the people of Lakeside go? And who are they?  - Here's more information on David Forsyth's book, Denver's Lakeside Amusement Park: From the White City Beautiful to a Century of Fun.  - Our theme song is "Minnow" by Felix Fast4ward. Elk Minister and Chimney Choir generously allowed us to use their music in this episode. "Into the Void of Emptiness" was the first single of Elk Minister's upcoming album, "There's a System of Control," which will be available through iTunes, Amazon, Spotify, CDBaby and other distributors, like Elk Minister’s website, bandcamp, and Soundcloud on January 13. The tracks "In this Light," "I Know the Way," and "In the Underworld" all appear on Chimney Choir's album "Boomtown". Their new album "(dream)" is available now.  - Rebecca Aronauer is a fiction writer who organizes Making the Mountain, a quarterly event series featuring local artists at the Lighthouse Writers Workshop.  - You can peruse crime data for Lakeside at the Colorado Bureau of Investigation's website.  - Follow us on Twitter @ChangingDenver and sign up for our newsletter at www.changingdenver.com/about.  Thanks for listening!

Bree Davies from Westword, Radio 1190 and all over Denver joins Cory for one of what he thinks is his better conversations about this fine city. They discuss how the the face of Denver has changed, of course they talked about where to chow and Bree gives Cory a tip that could have made him cool in high school, GRAB THE NEW RELEASE CD AND CRUISE IT WITH YOUR BEST GUY FRIEND.So go explore a new neighborhood, eat somewhere new that has always kind of scares you and enjoy Denver! And stay tuned down the road as they also plan out a future episode at Lakeside Amusement Park.You can check out handfuls of Bree's work at Westword, twitter, or her wonderfully designed website http://www.breedavies.com/ .

This week JD shoots the shit with guests Corey Rhoads and Anthony Crawford. Corey is a local comedian working hard around town. Anthony started comedy in North Carolina and has recently moved to Denver to further his comedy career. Topics discussed include, but are not limited to: comedy, sports, Casa Bonita, and Lakeside Amusement Park.   Check out Anthony at this youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/user/anthonycrawfordcomic Wanna go to Lakeside Amusement Park? Well, here is the link anyway: http://www.lakesideamusementpark.com Here is the link to the Bree Davies’s Westword article about Lakeside http://blogs.westword.com/showandtell/2014/07/ten_things_you_didnt_know_about_lakeside_amusement_park_in_lakeside_colorado.php