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Post by thom25 2012-02-22, 17:47

For the "out of towners" who may have seen the article below, the original Miracle Strip Amusement park that was home to the old Skyliner, is 5.8 miles from the new Pier Point at Miracle Strip Amusement Park. You can actually see the distance and locations thanks to Google Maps here !

If you would like to re-live the history of Miracle Strip, you can visit this link about Miracle Strip Amusement Park

This is a video of the old Miracle Strip the week it closed in 2004. You can see the Carousal, Sea Dragon, and Ferris Wheel that are now at Pier Point 5 miles away, and of course the Skyliner (RIP)



Today, things are not so bright for this once great amusement park which closed in 2004. All of the rides have been removed, and during the Gulf Oil Disaster, BP used the vacant space as a staging area for their clean-up efforts.

Thanks to ALT's contributing member Charles Thayer for the pictures and video that were taken 2/23/12 (below), while you can read the original article below the video.

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This is a walk through of the old Miracle Strip park as it exists today




This is a drive around of the old Miracle Strip location, which is where the Skyliner used to reside.



Miracle Strip continues expansion with Sea Dragon
PAT KELLY / News Herald Writer
2012-02-20 18:20:01
Sea Dragon

PANAMA CITY BEACH — Stepping off the new amusement ride at Pier Park’s Miracle Strip on Monday, 11-year-old Amanda Sullivan said it made her feel all tingly inside.

“It felt like I was going to the moon,” she said.

Her mother, Nikki Hunt of Panama City Beach, said she once enjoyed the same giant, swinging pirate ship at the old Miracle Strip on Front Beach Road.

“It’s neat to see my daughter ride it now,” Hunt said.

The expansion of the amusement park continued Friday with the opening of the Sea Dragon, a replica of the original ride that has been repainted and retooled for a new generation.

The first ride at Pier Park, a painted pony carousel that operated at the original Miracle Strip, began galloping in circles once again in April 2009 after its rehabilitation.

Park owner Teddy Meeks said the Sea Dragon, manufactured in the 1980s, was tracked down in Joplin, Mo. It took three months to get the sleek contraption into shape with a new coat of paint and new hydraulics, he said.

“They have actually stopped making these,” Meeks said. “There are only about 30 of these models left.”

The new attraction is just the latest installment in efforts by Teddy Meeks and his wife, Jennie, to transplant many of the rides that once thrilled beachgoers at the old Miracle Strip Amusement Park before it closed in 2004.

Many of the attractions currently at Pier Park, such as the painted pony carousel and the teacup ride, are the original machines that have been polished with a bright new sheen for a brand new generation.

Meeks called the Sea Dragon, which can sit about 50 people, a family ride that can be enjoyed by 6- and 7-year-olds through teenagers and adults.

“It’s really not a thrill ride,” he said, comparing it to faster and taller attractions.

Don’t tell that to 7-year-old Hatten Alums of Dothan, Ala., however, who was there Monday with her grandmother, Debra Alums. “It was like you were flying in the air,” Hatten said.

Debra Alums also took a seat for a ride in the pirate ship. “I rode it with my eyes closed the whole time,” she said. “But that’s what you do for your 7-year-old granddaughter.”

Art Rutherford, of Ebro, took a ride with his granddaughter, Grace Ann Rutherford, on Monday and admitted it “would have been even better 40 years ago.”

But, 6-year-old Grace Ann couldn’t get enough.

“You get to go so high, it feels like you are going to heaven,” she said.

With Spring Break just three week away, Meeks said the amusement park and the new ride were geared toward families who might not want to fight the college crowd at the annual beach party, and business was brisk in March and April last year, as well as during the summer season.


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