Children's Fairyland nears 60-year mark

Posted | Contributed by Jeff

Fairyland was in danger of getting paved over in the 1990s, before undergoing a transformation in recent years. The throwback amusement park continues to survive, because people like Hirschfield have decided it's worth fighting for. In a city that attracts more negative media attention than positive, the whimsical one-of-a-kind Lake Merritt park has been a quiet success story.

Read more from The San Francisco Chronicle.

Kathy Wanless brought her 5-year-old granddaughter to the park last week.

"It's never been high tech, it's not loud, they're not blasting music and the kids can use their imagination," Wanless says. "For the admission charge, it's great. If you want smazz-matazz, pay $50 for Six Flags. ... I hope they keep it going for my great-grandchildren."
Hello, Six Flags? We have your new advertising slogan...

Smazz-matazz? Wow.

Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.

Smazz-matazz beats charm any day.

coasterimage - lordgonchar

Only because smazz-matazz dictates you never take the charm out of a park and move it to Carowinds.

Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.

Here's some irony to go with your smazz-matazz: I've never been to Fairland!

(wait for it...)

I so want to change my screen name to smazz-matazz. Just for a week or so.

Ever gotten smazz-matazz in your eye? It stings! ;)

I once attended the Church of Smazz-Matazzology.

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