There is a really amazing park in Stockholm called Skansen that is part amusement, part living history museum, part zoo.
The roll-out will bring Apple Pay to coffee machines, snack dispensers, laundromats, goods kiosks, amusement part ticket machines, car wastes, transit ticket and taxi terminals and more.
But despite the city's population having been cut nearly in half since the hurricane, and though large sections of neighborhoods and landmarks such as the former Six Flags amusement part sit eerily abandoned, the heart of the city where jazz was born is still beating.
One-part museum, one-part ghostly amusement park, one-part outsider art exposition, and about 27 parts Whaaaaat the fuuuuuuuuck this is so uncomfortable and awesome, it's a dilapidated simulacrum of a one-horse frontier outpost with the requisite saloon, wagon repair shop, post office and, why not, an opera house and Chinese laundry, too.
Outside the museum Palestinian families, summer camp groups and boisterous teenagers from all over the West Bank come to enjoy one of the few open spaces in urban Palestine, complete with a large playground, mini-amusement part, paddle boat pond and even some living zoo animals.
Timberlake is shown glancing at the camera wearing an expression that's two parts amusement, one part terror.
The Hollywood studio DreamWorks Animation has struck a deal to bring Shrek, Kung Fu Panda and other animated movie characters to a planned amusement park as part of a revived entertainment and retail mall in the New Jersey Meadowlands.
Such is the case with the original Callahan's hot dog restaurant at 1365 Palisade Avenue in Fort Lee, which made its mark in decades past as the go-to spot for hungry patrons of the long-gone Palisades Amusement Park (part of which also sat in Cliffside Park).
Tells the admission prices to the safari park and the Enchanted Forest, the amusement-park part of Great Adventure.
Equal parts concert, amusement park and street party, the two-weekend festival looked to reinvigorate a forgotten swath of the Las Vegas Strip and also compete amid the landscape of well-oiled music festivals that have managed to turn places like the sprawling polo grounds of the Coachella Valley or a muddy farm in Manchester, Tenn., into essential getaways for music fans.
Defenders of the county's role in running Playland point out that the amusement park is only a part of a larger, more traditional public amenity that includes the beach, a boardwalk and open grassy areas in Rye.
