www.marshallhall.org

Just stumbled upon that website, and it sure brought back memories.

Do you guys remember the park?

The Wilson Liner?

The Mad Mouse roller coaster? (or was that at Glen Echo?)

I went there several times before they closed amusement park.

I always wanted to play the slot machines back then, but sadly both the park and their slot machine parlor went away before I was old enough to drop a nickle.

I know that in my past I have said that I'd visited Marshal Hall, but now that I give it more thought; I don't think I was ever there. If I was than I must have been under the age of 3 because I have very vivid memories of most events from the age of 3 on. Glen Echo was definately a place we would go to as kids. I liked swimming in the Crystal Pool the most. KathyMac

Sometimes I think I confuse memories of Glen Echo and Marshall Hall, too. I do remember taking the boat ride from Glen Echo to Mt Vernon and back once with my grandmother and family.

I remember the Fun House and a blast of air that went up your skirt or shorts as you tried to enter it...but was that at Glen Echo, or Marshall Hall?

There was a boat from Glen Echo?? Where did it dock? I can only think of the Canal as a place for the boat to navigate and I don't remember a boat. Are you sure? Maybe you mean you took a boat from Marshal Hall to Mt. Vernon?? Puzzled! (what else is new,eh?) KathyMac

"Senior Moment"....sorry.

I meant to write "Marshall Hall to Mt. Vernon".

As for Glen Echo, my feeble brain seems to remember being near Great Falls.
Maybe my folks combined family outings to both places? Are they near to each other?

Geeze, why it is that Denise and I remember our families packing up the families for outings at Cedar Hill Cemetery...but I'm not getting a bead on Glen Echo! What makes a pond with attacking geese more memorable than a day at the amusement park?

Kids......just give 'em the cardboard box.

How simple life was back in the 50's and 60's! Can't imagine what kids today would say to spending Sunday in the Cemetery...and with Mom and Dad, no less! lol!

Maybe we should have a reunion of Cedar Hill Cemetary alumni! My folks brought us there almost every weekend to run, play, torture the geese. We have so many old slides with that Cemetary as the backdrop. It was close and it was free!!! What more could you want in the 50's? I think we started going there when we lived in Naylor Gardens and continued to go up until we moved from 25th Street, SE to the remote village of Camp Springs!! KathyMac

Remote village of Camp Springs?? LoL Here Here!! LOL I inspected a house over in S.E. Washington about a month ago and drove past the Cemetary. It is still there of course. We never visited but we visited Ft. Lincoln Cemetary which is on Bladensburg Road In Hyattsville where my parents were actually eventually buried. Anyhow it is humorous to think visiting cemetaries was a fun day event. I seldom go visit my parents graves now because the neighborhood is so bad. Anyhow the wilson line did go to Marshall Hall and then across the river to Mt. Vernon. It still does I think go to Mt. Vernon. The spooky house did have the air coming up from the ground and a room with a slanted floor at Marshall Hall. At least that's what I recall. As well as the Cat N Mouse small Roller Coaster next to the big one.I went to a puppet show at Glen Echo back in Hmmm ! the early 90's with a school teacher I was dating. LOL she was checking it out for a possible field trip. I think they still have some events now at Glen Echo. We never went there when I was a kid.

The Cat N Mouse Coaster...that's what I was trying to remember!

Can remember the slanted floors and the silly mirrors, and how gawd awful hot it was inside.

The smell of popcorn and caramel corn, the cotton candy...and of course, the yellow jackets.

And how we'd all pile back into Uncle Jimmy's car sitting on laps---no seatbelts back then! And how ALL of the adults smoked in the car...how on earth did we all live?

I think that they have unearthed the original grand ballroom at Glen Echo. I read that it had been buried. Wonder why? Not much left of Marshall Hall. Just a boat ramp. The Wilson Line is the one that went from Alexandria to Marshall Hall. We once played music on that tub one Saturday night. I remember every wave made my drums slide across the steel deck!

Billy

LOL I think you might be misstaken. I think it went from Southwest to Marshall Hall and Mt. Vernon. The Dandy leaves from Alexandria. Or maybe it stopped there. Who knows. Bryant Wilson Got Married on the Dandy, 25 years ago this past July ??, something or other!! Happy 25th Dude. You need to not lurk but say hay once in a while man!