Laffing Sal - Locations

Locations

  • Balboa Fun Zone Scary Dark Ride in Newport Beach, California (closed in 2005 to provide a site for the Newport Nautical Museum)
  • Buckeye Lake Park in Ohio
  • Crystal Beach Park in Ontario, Canada
  • Erieview Park in Cleveland, Ohio
  • Euclid Beach Park in Cleveland, Ohio (closed in 1969; the figure is now privately owned and still exhibited at local "home days")
  • Hamid's Pier in Atlantic City, New Jersey
  • Idora Park in Youngstown, Ohio
  • Jantzen Beach Amusement Park in Portland, Oregon
  • Kennywood Park in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
  • Lakeside Amusement Park in Denver, Colorado
  • Memory Lane Arcade in Frankenmuth, Michigan (Closed in 2004. Current whereabouts unknown.)
  • Hunt's Pier in Wildwood, New Jersey
  • Musée Mécanique (on Pier 45 at Fisherman's Wharf) (the second Laffing Sal from Playland at the Beach)
  • Pacific Ocean Park Santa Monica, California, where it was known as Laffing Gertrude
  • Palisades Amusement Park in New Jersey
  • Laff-in-the-Dark dark ride, The Pike, Long Beach, CA
  • Playland at the Beach in San Francisco (closed in 1972; one figure went to the Musée Mécanique, and another eventually ended up at Santa Cruz)
  • Playland-Not-At-The-Beach in El Cerrito, California has three Laughing Sals. The first is a traditional-looking one from an amusement park in Ohio. The second, known as Sinister Sal, was specially created by sculptor Chuck Jarman of Bump-in-The-Night Productions. The third, Psycho Sal, appears at Halloween season.
  • Revere Beach in Revere, Massachusetts
  • Riverview Park in Des Moines, Iowa (converted to Laffing Sam)
  • Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk in California (from Playland at the Beach)
  • Seabreeze Park in Rochester, New York
  • Ocean View Amusement Park, "Laff In The Dark", Norfolk, VA (closed 1979)
  • Silver Beach Amusement Park and the new Silver Beach Carousel in St. Joseph, Michigan

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