Riverview Remembered by WGN

It was called Fun Town (95th & Stony Island). I went there once when I was a kid. I liked Old Chicago too (kindergarten field trip), but never went to Riverview (was torn down 8 years before I was born).

"Laugh your troubles away!" That was the tag line from the ad which always ran on the Garfield Goose show. In the 80s my friends and I flew RC helicopters in the park along the river, on Rockwell south of McDonald's and the insurance office. I rode the Wild Mouse twice in Riverview's last season. When I was a young boy my mom carried me out of Aladdin's Castle with a sweater over my head, so distressed and scared was I.

God Bless Riverview I will never forget that park so long as I live.

I sooo miss Riverview. So many memories. The sideshow act would give me nightmares. I didn't know bozo's wizzo got his start there. Pretty cool. I remember my father trying to sneak my twin sister and I on the Italian Bobs. I think you had to be 7. We were 6. My friend Brenda used to roller skate in Riverview with her cousin Jeri. Fun times.....

i worked on the chute the chutes in 1961 great summer rudder came off boat as it hit the water on second bounce and stuck in water stopping boat immediatly few injuries i stayed with the boat until being towed in to dock the captain who didnt go down with the boat pete lodato

"FunTown, FunTown
for the kid in you!
95th and Stony Island Avenue.
FunTown!"

No, I never had the pleasure of going to FunTown-I DID go to Old Chicago Indoor Park-while it was running.
My wife just drove me CRAZY with that jingle.

Kiddyland was on 95th but west of Cicero.

wasn't it called kiddyland ? or was that another one ?

Does anyone remember the amusement park on the southside on 95th and stony island? i think it was called funtown.......anyone have any links to that?

I was lucky enough to go the last two seasons and it was great!
My oldest brother went to Lane Tech while the park was still open and that had to be tempting to cut class and walk over to the park.

I went in the last couple of years it was open... I think it would be cool to try to re-build it... If not at the original location, then maybe at a pier on the lakefront... Lakeview, anyone???

I was very fortunate to have been there with my father & older brother in the Summer of 1967 before its eventual extinction.

Good times...

I used to walk all over the Riverview site when I went to Lane Tech in the early 1970s- Of course, the Riverview site was flat and being paved into DeVry and the "cop shop".

Noooo, Not Riverview!