[tomwed]

I'm going to say Palisades Amusement Park in Weehawken, New Jersey. Even the name Weeeeeeeeeehawken sounds like an amusement park. I was about 12 and I think they bragged about have the largest wooden [gulp--think rotting wood and drunk nail bangers holding it together] roller coaster and the world's largest salt water pool. Somehow they even made some kind of wave. Unless my imagination manufactured that instead of my memory kicking in.

I could get in for free once a year when the Jersey Journal gave their paper carriers a ticket for a new subscription.