Cheers for posting that - watched the lot.
Great memories of the times I went there and very sad that the cunning of global business was ultimately the chief cause of it's undoing...
And uncannily - what this host suggests was the instigation of Wonderland in the first place - The Ghost Train Fire @ Luna Park in 1979 and its subsequent shutdown - had ultimately the same common theme as the demise of Wonderland.... The Land.... Submarining an otherwise successful fun park to gain control of the development of the land it sat on...
It's also sadly a theme across other industries where the value of the land is re-assessed and redeveloped to make "more profitable use" of the land. Along with Theme parks, Drive-In theatres...
There's still one not from where I live in Adelaide.... I went there on a Saturday night last year to watch "Back to the Future".... the place was packed (as it is every friday and saturday night). And it was an awesome night out....
I also remember childhood holidays driving up the Pacific Highway from Sydney to the north coast, and all the theme parks dotted at various locations along the way. Sitting in the back of the car and pleading with Dad to pull into them and have a go on the rides. Many have long since gone, made way for "land development"...
That's my nostalgia fix sorted, and thankfully there's still at least a few old-school forms of entertainment hanging in there on the land they sit on.... Luna Park (all-be-it havng lost a lot of it's glory-day charm) and the Mainline Cinema on Main North Rd here in Adelaide.