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8-89	Karl R. Josker

but by the time these pictures were taken, the Canadiana was thirty years gone. It quit the Crystal Beach run in the mid 1950's.

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Wiliam Kessel		15-Aug-2007 14:46
Ah yes these were the days. I remember my step mother and her mother taking us kids to crystel beach every summer. we would rent a cottage in crystel beach for a week or too and have the time of our lives. my sister Norma and I would go on the rides and munch on all the goodies we could buy. the beach the rides the food the people the times. what memories. Boy do I feel old. it seems like a century ago I can still see the park entrance and the anticapation of all that fun.

Don Hancock		11-Jun-2007 17:34
this is really awsome.it seems like 100 years ago when every summer they had Lackawanna days and you would buy tickets at a discount to go on the rides. we would get a bus at skate haven and it would take us all the way there and at night it would bring us home. we would get enough people to just about fill a bus of our own. the comet,20 times with out getting off. it was alot of fun and made alot of memories. just looking at the pictures i can hear us at the beach andf rides.(awsome)

Barb Bigos		02-Jun-2006 16:00
Ahh yes now I know what my mother meant when she said the "GOOD OLD DAYS" Everything is so high tech now. Does anyone out there remember " CRYSTAL BEACH DAYS" My favorite ride at the park was the "Heydey" and the "Tumble Bug". I skated there nearly every Saturday or Sunday as a young adult. The beach there was the cleanest and always packed with people.

Rosalie		22-Nov-2005 18:57
I remember sorority cottage at Crystal Beach. What fun. I also remember riding the Comet eleven times on West Side Day one year. Now, you couldn't pay me to go on a roller coaster. Thanks for the pictures Karl.

Dennis		24-Oct-2005 01:26
My friends and I spent summers in Crystal Beach wiuth our familes. We were just kids then, and we couldnt wait til mondays, thats the day the park was closed. We would swim out to the pier, and dive off of it without worrying about the security shooing us away. Looking at these pictures is really bringing back memories.

Curtis Bard		01-Jul-2004 06:05
My brother Doug (Douglas R. Bard) and I visited Crystal Beach almost every summer. We often rode on the Canadiana with our mother, Henrietta "Hattie" Ruth (Raymond) Bard and our father, Thomas D. Bard to get there. Our father was a supervisor at the Westinghouse Electric Corporation on Genesee Street in Cheektowaga, NY. Westinghouse offered special rate tickets and various other activities associated with their annual Crystal Beach Picnic. We always had loads of fun, and often ended up with a stomach ache from all the "great" food and candy we ate. Years later when with my wife Suzanne F. (Szypajlo) Bard, my daughter (Samantha K. Bard) broke her front tooth when she was running in the "Tilt Room" (part of one of the amusements), and accidently bumped into her brother's head (Christopher T. Bard).