The Defunct Petticoat Junction Amusement Park And Ghost Town In Panama City Beach, Florida
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- For Episode 500 were talking about the now long gone petticoat junction amusement park that was in Panama City Beach, Florida, now a walmart sits in its place but 35 years ago it was an active theme park with fun for the whole family. i hope you all enjoyed this episode. please click the thumbs up button to like this video and click subscribe to follow along on all of my adventures.
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I live here in Panama City Beach, just behind where Petticoat Junction used to be. As a child and a teenager, PJ was one of my favorite hangouts. It was inexpensive enough to do every day. A buddy and I used to rent one of the Paddle Boats every day. We’d paddle out on the lake and feed the turtles. Mr. Churchwell had the “Seafarer Restaurant,” that was very popular at the time, and it was built out over the lake. We’d paddle underneath the restaurant for shade. Sometimes we’d paddle around the backside of the lake up into the creek that fed it. There’s still some of the old train track left back in the block of woods behind Walmart, and across Churchwell Street in front of the Post Office. This is on the backside of the park where the old ghost town and the petting zoo were. So far as the train, I know some (or maybe all of it), is up in north Alabama near I think what is called Warrior, just north of Birmingham. There’s a popular mansion (I believe that’s owned by the Hallmark family), on the left a few miles north of Birmingham on I-65. It sits on a huge spread, way off the road. Behind that house is a train and I understand it’s the train from Petticoat Junction that used to be here in PCB. Thank you for the video. I really miss that place, and there was much more to do here in those days than it is now.
I have many memories of the petticoat junction theme park from back in the 70s as a kid. I've rode the train many times. Those were the good ole days.
Being a kid in the 70's and 80's was a fantastic time to grow up. Places like this were everywhere. Today's kids keep their eyes glued to their smart phones and completely miss out on life!
I remember going to PJ and Miracle Strip Amusement Parks back in the early 80s, when we used to visit my aunt and uncle,I loved both of them.
loved that place wish it was still their
Especially for new generations..to know more about those good old days..!!!
We lived in PC from '76 till '79 & visited Petticoat Junction on a regular basis! It was very family friendly while Miracal Strip amusement park was geared towards teens & young adults. The Tornado was the 1st roller coaster I ever rode! Mmy favorite ride was the Magic Carpet!! What great memories!! ❤❤❤
I was born in '73.. I lived about 45 mins away. I went to Petticoat Junction and Miracle Strip Amusement Parks all the time growing up until they closed Petticoat in '84. I also went to Pirates Island Amusement Park in Ft. Walton Beach, Fl. You should do one on that place Mike. Thanks for the memories.
I never rode the tornado, but when I was around 8 or so I went to Panama on vacation for the 1st time, woulda been 1982, and Petticoat Junction was still there. They charged separately for the rides, weren't offering all-rides armbands like Miracle Strip, so I only got to ride Magic Carpets. It was actually pretty cool, it was a rip off of Peter Pan's Flight at Disney World but with an Arabian Nights theme, had genies and what not in it. My memory of it was that it ended in this big round cave-like area where your carpet slowly looped around from high up down towards the ground then out of the cave and you were done.
So many fond memories of this park and Miracle Strip. The Magic Carpet was my favorite ride as a kid
I remember driving by the giant pirate statue all the time when I was little. It was next to the sui-slide.
I grew up in PCB. My dad worked for Long Beach Supermarket. When I returned its all gone. Thanks for the memories!
I remember the show fondly, I was born in 1962
I remember that park, it competed with miracle strip. The park actually shut its doors I believe in the early 80's and the park was still standing their in that walmart parking lot until 1985, then they started to tare it down. I was actually 5 years old when I road the tornado roller coaster in 1979. I remember miracle strip more as a kid then petticoat, but remember my first ever rollercoaster ride at petticoat. I miss the old panama city from the late 70's through all the 80's and into the 1990's.
Had one of the first giant ferris wheels I ever rode in
I am not old enough to remember the TV show, but I remember the amusement park. PCB is my hometown. I remember going to Petticoat Junction as a kid. I loved the magic carpet ride, the haunted house, and the House of mirrors. I remember the train and Ghost town. The Super Wal Mart was built around 1993 when I was in college. Good memories.
I remember it well. Been there several times being raised in PC. miss it.
I remember driving past Petticoat junction in the early 80's but we went to the Miracle Strip Amusement park down the road instead. Now they are both gone. There was also the sui slide which was close to Petticoat Junction. I was about 7 or 8 when I saw it. I remember the railroad.
sui slide i dont remember that. i sill have to do some digging. here is my video on Miracle Strip th-cam.com/video/C6fllAuhOJ0/w-d-xo.html
@@BamaMike If you google suislide panama city beach you'll see an image of it. It was right next to that pond. It was not part of petticoat junction but it was right there near it. I rode it in 1981.
@@BamaMike If you stop this video at 3:41 you can see the sign to the Sui-Slide. I got a T-shirt when I was about 13 that said "I survived the Sui-Slide Panama City Beach". My grandmother rode it with us in about 1979 when she was about 70 years old. Fun times!
Did they change the name to black hole?
Thank you so much for sharing this , My Grandmother On my dads side, marries into the Churchwell family when I was a baby & they owned petticoat junction theme park & a strip shopping center right next door , where my granny & Aunt worked at the Laundromat there. Granny worked there until it closed, I believe ? I would have to ask my dad and aunts about her age . She passed away in her 80’s & it wasn’t too long after it was closed . Again I’m not sure of the time line.
She lived in a little house right behind the amusement park, I spent a lot of time there growing up, I haven’t been able to get back in yrs.
I knew that Walmart was there, I still have family in the area & my dad told one time when he visited . He’s 80 now .
It’s crazy to see it & think about how much time has flown by.
Once again , THANK YOU !
One more thing it’s crazy to see the buildings across the street and not see the beach , this makes me sad 😞 ~ Tricia
How cool! Hope Mike reads your post
My family was the Creels who also married into the family. Bet my Uncle knows you....
Thanks Bama Mike! I enjoyed this. It brought back a lot of memories.
I'm 64 years old and I would say back around late sixties in early seventies we would go down there ride this train and cowboys would ride up and robbed the train then the train would take back off and you would go back to the town Panama City has changed so much since then Thanks for the Memories
I am 40yrs old but was lucky to experienced.
Oh the memories!!! Time repects or waits for no one!!! I bet that Wal-Mart store brings in more in a day than the park did all summer...
I watched the show in reruns when I was a kid. I never knew about the park, that's interesting. Thanks for the vid, enjoy your varied content!
Thanks for the history of the Amusement Park. I have heard of it when i was younger but never went there.
I remember seeing Petticoat Junction. Wish I would have known about the Theme Park. Thanks Mike.
Used to go there as a kid from Tyndall AFB where my dad was stationed in the late 70's, also went to the Miracle Strip Amusement park. Petticoat Junction had an advertisement jingle on the radio that went something like this: "Highway 98 will take you to your happy place, and make you smiiiiile,,, you're at Petticoat Junction,,,,, amusement park!"
I remember hearing the whistle from the train several miles away while at my grandma's out on the beach. We loved going there as kids, riding the train to the back lot where the old west town was, watching a shootout, going into the old time shops, plus the rides and such on the main side of the park. I have no idea why it closed down while Miracle Strip Amusement Park stayed open...everyone I knew like Petticoat Junction better. Perhaps bad management, or just hard times. I miss it.
Man it was cool. Dam shame its gone .
Hi Mike, Greetings & Love from New York. I remember watching the tv show petticoat junction with my family, but I did not know, there was an Amusement park named after it. This video was really cool, with the original footage and the original pictures.Thank you for all your hard work and for showing us, all the different attractions in Panama City. Have a wonderful evening. May you & your beautiful family stay safe & healthy 🙌🏻🤗💕
Great video Mike 👌🏼 Thank’s for sharing, didn’t know about that Tv series
I clearly remember watching the show, but I never knew there was an amusement park there based off of the show. I've been to Panama City many times during my teen years, and I'm this close to it, yet never knew. Thank you for making this video, it brought back memories
Congratulations on making 500, Mike! Great work!
I remember watching reruns of Petticoat Junction, didn't know about the amusement park theme of it though. I enjoyed seeing the old footage of the place.
I was in love with the steve character as a little kid. I went on to marry a steve in real life lol
I went there many times Mike! It was so much fun! There was a train and a great roller coaster... I only wish you had seen it.
Been on those paddle boats etc
Great memories
My brother worked at the paddle boat place on the pond there in the 70's. It was owned by Ed's Beach Service. (EBS) Great stuff!
It was a nice little Park! I remember it well. My older brother worked there the last 10 years it was open and said the last year of it was very dead.
I have been there when it still there and it was fun that was the good old days
My brothers never missed the show...each brother was infatuated with different daughters 😂 I didn’t watch the show until recently, but I loved Green Acres, which was a spin-off from PCJ. I didn’t know about the park. You put together a really great video for this.💕👍😊
Liked P Junction the best. My sister and I missed the return train trip one time, I knew I could get Pop to ride it. Came looking for us. Lol
The surf/spaghetti western themed music in this video was a really nice touch and was spot on! GREAT JOB 🌴👍🎸
My Uncle was part owner of this park and use to give us free tickets and all day passes back in the 70's
It had Charming Charlie which I was terrified of...lol...born in 1969 so great memories! Thank you!
Petticoat Junction is the Walmart there used to be a part of the track on the west side. The ghost town used to be where a Tony Ramas was on back beach road. It's a different world now!
Thank You, used to ride my bike there.
My Brother worked at the paddle boats in the mid 70's. I think it was called EBS paddle boats.
When I was a kid my dad would take us there. The western gun fights were right out.of Hollywood. Those blank charges in those guns were LOUD. The train was awesome. Now kids want to stare at their phones.
I lived there from 1983 to 1985.
I remember going to the water slide part before they closed it down and started to tear everything down.
Have vacationed many spring breaks in Panama City Beach, FL. Wish I’d known this information back when my girls where younger. Being a lover of all things historian, I would have loved to have known this!
I believe that the old cannonball train has been move to here in Oregon. Did you know that Sharon Tate was used for advertising the old tv show. And wasn’t the mother of the three girls also was the voice of Betty Rubble on the flint stones cartoon show. The series was always better in black and white. Thanks Michael for this fantastic trip down memory lane.
Great research, Mike. Congrats on your 18K subscribers!
You can still watch Petticoat Junction on the Roku channel! Being a child of the 60's....we loved watching Petticoat Junction. But I never knew they had a theme park....?!! Thanks for this video! 😉
I went there many times when I was a kid the train ride and Ghost Town were great I like them better than I did Miracle Strip
I know who bought the train. The man was a coal baron in Warrior, Alabama. His wife wanted the train locomotive when it went up for auction. Mr. Hallmark of Hallmark Coal Co. Bought it for his wife. When he died, the city of Warrior bought his property. It will be interesting to see what they do with it. I am 61 and remember Petticoat Junction and Ghost Town very well. They had the coolest gunfights.
Isn’t the train now in Oregon state?
Stephen Phillips it’s posibble, there was more than one.
the only things I remember from the early 90s before the WalMart got put in was the Roller Coaster and the SuiSlide.
I’ll be headed to Spanish fort next week :)
Wow that is fascinating. Petticoat Junction is my all time favorite TV show, I love its innocence before CBS's famous rural purge that ended Andy Griffith Show, Petticoat Junction, Beverly Hillbillies, Green Acres and a few others. The purge was CBS's biggest mistake as those shows were replaced with trash like All in the Family, Love American Style, Sanford and Sons which simply didn't stand up to the Henning creations. I wonder if any of the girls like Linda Kay Henning, Meredith McRay, and the others ever visited the theme park. Bea Benederet died during the fifth season so I doubt she ever had enough time to visit the park that enshrined her great acting.
It's a shame to see the remnants of this area that used to be the Petticoat Junction themed amusement park. All though I was born in 1993, I really enjoy things that were way before my time such as 1960s era movies like the old westerns with Clint Eastwood, and John Wayne, 1940s era music such as Glenn Miller, Frank Sinatra, etc. But Petticoat Junction was a really great sit com. I remember watching re runs of the show when it was on MeTV at 6am. When I was still in school, I used to wake up to Petticoat Junction every morning and at 6:30am, I watched re runs of The Beverly Hillbillies, and that was a good show as well. MeTV doesn't have these good shows on their programming in my area at the moment because they change their lineup every so often for variety you know to keep things interesting. Also I enjoy so much more of old TV shows too like Adam-12, Dragnet, Gunsmoke, Bonanza, Wagon Train, and much more. Dragnet and Gunsmoke used to be old radio programs before television and SiriusXM satellite radio channel 148 Radio Classics does re runs of those programs and others as well such as Suspense, The Green Hornet, etc. It's kind of challenging these days to find shows like these and most music and TV these days is just plain garbage, so that's why I like the classics these days. I like old steam and diesel trains and anything else that still works and old like VCRs and VHS tapes, audio cassette tapes, 1980s era arcade games like Galaga, Asteroids, etc. So, with I just mentioned, thanks for sharing this tape of the remnants of what's left of the old Petticoat Junction themed amusement park and it breaks my heart of what kind of world we live in today. Hardly anyone follows the rules, teenagers doing stupid and dangerous things, etc. It's not the same in the 2020s compared to like the 1940s, 1950s, etc.
A number of rides went to Detroit in 1985 after the auction to an amusement park in a factory that never totally opened. They had the 1922 PTC carousel which ended up at Peddler's Village in Lahaska PA in 1998. The Magic Carpet from Pacific Ocean Park also was in Detroit in pieces and I have a number of the towers and arches from the front and one of the two pieces of surviving fringed carpets from the car fronts. I have a number of fairy tale plywood cutouts of Jack and the Beanstalk and other scenery pieces. Does anyone remember these and where they were?
I use to watch that back then I was young my parents watched it a lot! Why did the park close down? It seem like it was a fun place to go to!👍👍👍👍
Hey Mike, what is the attraction in Alabama that has the train. Is it the Pike Pioneer museum?? We used to pass it every year otw to PCB. We also stopped at the Country Mall. Such awesome memories.
the wild west show was unreal. real guns using blanks it was so loud and the train went back in the woods where a town and the gun fight took place. so cool. not Miracle Strip cool but cool. That coaster stayed up for years after park was shutdown. i was too small too ride coaster when i went.
I have one on miracle strip too
@@BamaMike yeah i watched it first. Sad bro. We used to carry our cds and if radio clean version, they would play it on the rides at Miracle Strip first come first serve so if some one beat u to it they wouldnt play it but that rarely happened. I will never forget, even though it was an old song at the time, i heard Queen's, Another One Bites the Dust for the first time on my first ride on the Dantes Inferno commonly known as the Devil. The strobe lights and the inside dome with red and white ring lights flashing back and forth to the beat. It was Awesome. Just like the 80s. Had no idea our country all over would get so bad. Besides maybe Disney, our theme parks suck now. There will never be another Miracle Strip Amusement Park. ☹️. I cant watch ur vids much i get sad. They even messed up Shipwreck Island now. Kept modifying or Sissifying the rapids. Took out Skull Island it looks like. Took out the bad ass freaking whirlpool hidden way back in that cave. Our public culture is pissed off and terrible now. What a waste.
I saw it a few times when I was a kid, but the train was no longer there. I have often wondered when that was removed?
in the ghost town the saloon was turned into a real bar called the Tombstone Saloon
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Hey Mike, how would I go about using a few seconds of one of your videos on a non-monetized video on a non-monetized channel? Serious question.
The Cowboys used to hide in the woods and rob the train. Then the condo developers robbed us of all the fun never even filling the condos. Sucks
I remember flirting with a boy that worked there (1982) and pretending I was to scared to ride the Rollercoaster alone so he'd ride with me.... that was the first time I felt those butterflies... Ohhhh what I would do to be that young again..
I loved PJ! Hate they closed it down
For more info, Join the I remember Panama City when...facebook page. The Churchwells are on there, the family that owned it.
Got a picture of me when I was 6 1980. We took the train to the western town on the way bandits jumped aboard the train held me up with guns pointing at me and took my quarters....I was scared shitless the rest of the time I was there anyway I have the picture of me getting held.up.
that’s so cool, kids today can’t get that, I’ve been on a ride like that as well and I still remember it like it was yesterday. Of course I was scared at the time but looking back on it now, it sucks the modern kids won’t get to experience that
I WENT TO IT
I never heard of a Petticoat Junction. What year were you born just curious?
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Beaches just isn’t the same no where near as fun nowadays
wild west had nothing to do with Petticoat Junction.
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