Have you ever seen the movie The Death of Ocean View Park... Same amusement park and wooden coaster that was featured in the movie Rollercoaster, but the coaster was blown up in this movie (According to information online, Rollercoaster was filmed at Ocean View Park in 1977, the park closed on Labor Day of 1978, and The 1979 movie Death of Ocean View Park was filmed there after the park closed)...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbX7GbCrUaY
Yep, I do remember that movie although I think I have only seen it once, seems I remember a woman getting stuck on the wheel and the owner/park worker dies by trying to rescue her.
Even though I never went I liked what I saw about that park, at least the classic rides they had in there including the chairlift, sad that it went under. That is one thing about the south that I don't understand, except in a few cases most of the parks down here get rid of the classics and bring in the new stuff, even the theming is not the same say at Carowinds and SFOG. But up north a lot of the parks keep the classics and bring in new ones and folks get to come back and enjoy rides of their youth with their kids.
And of course down here most parks now have dropped any "southern" themes that made the park special. Now I am not talking about really "offensive" stuff which they never really had, but things like KD changing the name of their woody from "Rebel Yell" to some new name now.
I even miss some of the old classic souvenir things like paper flowers, invisible dogs (leash) and the such.
But alas, guess that is just the way it is, however did like that Carowinds brought back the "County fair" midway with those 4 classic rides they put in a few years ago.