Heartbreaking
Abandoned Shady Grove Park Pool Lemont Furnace Fayette County Pa.
If you didn't swim under this fountain by about 5 or 6 yrs old, you just weren't much with your peers. The pool has changed dramatically since the 50's when I used to swim there. My grandparents swam here as did my parents. After the turn of the century, amusement parks were used by the trolley company owners to entice folks to ride on Saturdays and Sundays offering excursions to the parks. The West Penn Electric Railway had a stop for Shady Grove Park as it was between Connellsville and Uniontown. The park is now a mere shadow of it's former self having had rocket planes, merry -go-round, bumper cars.
What used to be: www.flickr.com/photos/lionel682/5092524287/in/album-72157...
Heartbreaking
Abandoned Shady Grove Park Pool Lemont Furnace Fayette County Pa.
If you didn't swim under this fountain by about 5 or 6 yrs old, you just weren't much with your peers. The pool has changed dramatically since the 50's when I used to swim there. My grandparents swam here as did my parents. After the turn of the century, amusement parks were used by the trolley company owners to entice folks to ride on Saturdays and Sundays offering excursions to the parks. The West Penn Electric Railway had a stop for Shady Grove Park as it was between Connellsville and Uniontown. The park is now a mere shadow of it's former self having had rocket planes, merry -go-round, bumper cars.
What used to be: www.flickr.com/photos/lionel682/5092524287/in/album-72157...