Lake Componce Amusement Park. Local TV company had a giveaway every year you send in a post card and they send you 5 ride tickets. Me and my buddies sent like 20 postcards each for a mess of free tickets. Road our bikes for an hour one way to get there and I road that roller coaster FIFTY times in a row Ride get off run around all the steps and get back in line over and over. Riding the bikes home later was agony
And here I thought he was looking for empties to take back so he could afford to buy a pair of longer pants.
I had a '46 Cushman that looked the same. Rode mine two years for High School and work, rain or shine or snow. Paid $45.00. No glass on fuel system tho. It was about shot when bought, had issues but easy to work on.
Lake Compounce ! ! Great memories, my brother's friends Mother was a Norton, they owned the park. Spent a good amount of time there as a kid. My mother sold tickets for the train, I used to ride right behind the engineer. A neighbor worked on the roller coaster. If there was an empty seat I rode, one Sunday about a hundred times (no shxt). On the weekends they charged to park, 50 cents or a dollar, If I had a date I was a big shot and paid to park, if alone I would park up on the road and go down the sand bank to get in. Great times ! ! ! Paul in CT
Jays was originally started in Chicago by the Japp family. When WW II broke out the name was changed from Japps to Jays.
Around 1960 when I was 12 there were still a lot of the late '40s- early '50s "tug boat" bodied Cushmans on the road. ( most of them really beat up by then) The deluxe models had 2 speed transmissions and rear suspensions. My uncle borrowed one from a buddy and took me for a ride''...I was hooked! Two years later I had a '59 single speed model called a Highlander and I've ridden motorcycles ever since.
WQ59B, thanks for the picture from my town. I believe this building is still there; I remember the company. It closed up in the late 80s, early 90s, as I recall. I've tried to find pictures to post, but to no avail.
https://www.knowol.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Colchester-CT-16.pngAnd, I found some. Center of Colchester, CT, 1940s. The view from this bus stop doesn't look too different now than it does in the picture.
Let's try this one: Ye Olde Well is no longer there, it's a parking lot converted to "social distance" dining. The section with the hardware store and post office is now a decent "Chinese" restaurant. The other buildings are still there, too.