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36°57′14.91″N76°15′2.53″W / 36.9541417°N 76.2507028°W / 36.9541417; -76.2507028Ocean View Amusement Park was an amusement park at the end of Granby Street at Ocean View Avenue in Norfolk, Virginia, USA, opened in 1905[1] and operated by Jack L. Greenspoon and Dudley Cooper.[2] The amusement park and its wooden coaster, the Rocket, appeared in the 1977 movie Rollercoaster but closed on September 4, 1978.[3] The Rocket was destroyed as part of the making of the television program The Death of Ocean View Park in 1979.[3]
The amusement park had five coasters, including the Southern Belle, Leap the Dips, Figure Seven and the Rocket. The history of the park is described at the Ocean View Station Museum in Norfolk, Virginia.
^"Norfolk's Ocean View Dolls Up Front, Back; Adds Fishing Pier". Billboard. 13 May 1957 – via Google Books. NORFOLK, Va.—Ocean View Amusement Park here opened April 13 with a fireworks show
^"Progress at Ocean View and Seaside". Billboard. 23 February 1957 – via Google Books. Seaside Park will open about May 30 under Jack L. Greenspoon and Dudley Cooper operation. (..) Ocean View Amusement Park, which the pair operates in Norfolk, is scheduled for opening Palm Sunday, April 13.
^ ab"Sand and Spectacle". Virginia Living. 4 January 2011.
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