Let's go to Fun Town!It was an amusement park located on Stewart Avenue(now called Metropolitan Avenue)downtown Atlanta when I was a kid.
Maybe from the late 50's till the mid 60's it was open.
Rides like Crazy Rat,games and that great amusement park food.
I always spent my time playing skeet ball trying to win a prize.It was said by some I was gambling,playing a game of chance because most of my trips there were on Church outings.
Baptist can be strict.
But some like to nit pick the little things like that but over look the big stuff like loving and caring.
I didn't know at the time,never did I pay attention but Fun Town was segregated.I was just there for fun.
Martin Luther King I read while searching for information on Fun Town mentioned it in a speech.He said his daughter had wanted to go to Fun Town but she could not because it was white only.
I remember playing the horse racing game(maybe I was a little gambler)there was a bowling alley and seems like maybe a pool.
1966 Fun Town closed it's doors.Way before Six Flags came to Georgia.
Stewart Avenue became famous for car lots,later on a place for criminal behavior,if you were looking for something it could be found there.
Fun Town.
Just another great childhood memory for me
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