YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (WKBN) – For decades, Idora Park was more than an amusement park — it was the heartbeat of Youngstown. And long before arenas and stadiums, its ballroom was the stage that mattered.

Jodi Mika has a reflective moment about many summer days she spent at Idora Park, while sitting in one of the cars that made up the Turtle, an iconic ride at the former amusement park. Mika, of Parma, ...

Correspondent photo / Sean Barron From left, H. William Lawson, the Mahoning Valley Historical Society’s executive director, Toni Amey and her husband, Jim Amey, stand next to a refurbished car that ...

YOUNGSTOWN – Mahoning Valley Historical Society and Jim and Toni Amey, owners of The Idora Park Experience collection, signed an agreement on Monday for the donation of the beloved collection to ...

This story originally published September 15, 2022. It has been updated to reflect that Six Flags now owns California’s Great America and in 2024 it announced that the park will close after the 2027 ...

In this Sept. 15, 2011 photo, Jane's Carousel, left, is shown on the East River shoreline in Brooklyn, N.Y. The carousel, built in 1922 by the Philadelphia Toboggan company of Germantown, Penn., was ...