Pleasure Island was an amusement park

Amusement park

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 located on South Main Street, between Huber Park and Huber Baseball Field in Borger, Texas

Borger, Texas

Borger is the largest city in Hutchinson County, Texas, United States. The population was 14,302 at the 2000 census. Borger is named for businessman Asa Philip "Ace" Borger, who also established the Hutchinson County seat of Stinnett and several other small towns in Texas and Oklahoma.- History...

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About Pleasure Island

Pleasure Island was built in the early 1960s with rides geared for young children. When it first opened, the park included a small dike

Levee

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-contained pond which featured plywood constructed paddle boat

Pedalo

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s, an 18-hole miniature golf

Miniature golf

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 course, a merry-go-round, kiddie car and airplane rides, a hand-crank tracked rail ride and a small train that carried guests around the circumference of the park. Pleasure Island was a fun place to take the kids, eat cotton candy

Cotton candy

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 and popcorn

Popcorn

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 and spend time as a family. Pleasure Island was open evenings and weekends.

The park was built and opened in the by a petroleum engineer, who opened it as more of a hobby

Hobby

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 than as a profit making venture. It was surrounded by Huber Park to the southwest and by Huber Baseball Field to the northeast

The park's name changed in the 1980s in a contest to give the park a new name; "One Flag Over Borger" was picked as a parody of the much larger "Six Flags Over Texas

Six Flags Over Texas

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" in Arlington

Arlington, Texas

Arlington is a city in Tarrant County, Texas within the Dallas–Fort Worth metropolitan area. According to the 2010 census results, the city had a population of 365,438, making it the third largest municipality in the Metroplex...

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Today Pleasure Island is just a memory. The last remaining parts were removed and the area black-topped

Asphalt concrete

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 and now is a free RV parking area

Parking lot

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 called "Huber Park Free RV Park."

A local collector

Collecting

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 owned the peddle cars and airplanes, but all were sold to other collectors. Several peddle cars and planes eventually found a home in a restaurant

Restaurant

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 in near-by Amarillo, Texas

Amarillo, Texas

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called "All the Fixin's," which is now closed.

Rides and Attractions

Rides:

• Train, Medium Size Train carried passengers around the park
• Paddle Boats, Small boats kids could paddle or push with the paddle around a man made pond
• Kids Car Ride, Was made with peddle cars
• Kids Airplane Ride, Peddle airplanes which hung from chains and went around in a circle
• Kids Boats Ride, Around and around they went
• Hand Cranked Ride, On small train track
• The Hammer, What a thrill ride for a kiddies' park

Attractions:

18 Hole Miniature Golf Coarse, Hazzards: A Steep Hill and A Dutch Windmill