Before Disney World swallowed up Florida tourism, road tripping families pulled off the highway near Ocala to visit a full blown Wild West town, complete with staged gunfights and a real steam train.
Six Gun Territory opened in 1963 and for a while it was one of the most popular attractions in the entire state.
Visitors rode a train that was ambushed by costumed outlaws, watched cowboys tumble off balconies in noon time shootouts, and wandered a frontier main street of saloons and shops, all in the middle of the Central Florida scrub. It was gloriously over the top, the kind of place where a kid could get a tin sheriff's badge and believe, just for a day, that Florida was the Old West.
When the interstate rerouted traffic and the big theme parks arrived, attractions like Six Gun Territory faded fast. It was a popular 200-acre, Wild West-themed amusement park located in Silver Springs (near Ocala), Florida. It opened on February 2, 1963, and closed permanently on January 1, 1984, later replaced by a shopping plaza.
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ReplyDeleteWild West City in New Jersey is still up and running !
ReplyDeleteKnotts Berry Farm used to have shoot-outs all the time. Back when shoot-outs were fun !
ReplyDeleteIn the late 60's/early 70's there was Petticoat Junction in Panama City Beach, FL. It was an amusement park whose theme was based around a locomotive/train that circled the park. I believe they had a similar Western Show at one time ,but I was too young to remember those days. A few years later, while visiting The Smokey Mountains, I saw a show near Maggie Valley, NC called Ghost Town In The Sky that was an old mock western town located on a mountain. There were gunfights, falls from balconies, men being dragged by horses, etc. I feel sorry for children today who will never experience those crazy roadside attractions from that era.
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