Her mother was referring to a possibly more dazzling future for the amusement park.
But even as he puts in 10 hours in his workshop on some long, warm days, he wonders about the future of the amusement park his pasture has become.
English Heritage is working alongside the site owner, the Dreamland Trust, and Thanet District Council to secure a long-term future for the amusement park.
Entering the bargain with the assumption that you will be given an escape from death, the best you can hope for is to have your cold husk displayed for the amusement of future generations, after everything that actually made your conscious being has long since left the building.
"We should preserve the amusements for future generations.
But Playland, which is owned by the county, has received an infusion of millions of dollars from the Board of Legislators for its crumbling Art Deco bathhouses, and county officials are optimistic about the amusement park's future.
Mama Zoya's is a riverboat Georgian restaurant; across the water in Gorky Park is the Soviet space shuttle Buran, its future having proved to be in amusement rather than transport.
For now, the park offers both vestiges of the playground's 19th-century past and signs of the amusement park's millennial future.
Not since the early nineteen-eighties, when video games began moving from amusement arcades into homes, has the future seemed so uncertain.
What Euro Disney needs is to wipe out a large part of its debt, freeing future cash flow to finance the improvements that amusement parks inevitably need.
