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11 comments:
Thank you so much for posting this article!! I went there with my older brother and loved it so much. Can anyone tell me where it was exactly? I know it is gone now but I would like to go there next time I feel brave enough to drive around Flint!
Cara
Cara,
It was in Kearsley Park on the East Side. I think it closed for good in 1982. The Kearsley Park pool is also closed.
OOOOOHHHHH I loved this place! It is one of my earliest memories I think! I don't think I ever went more than once or twice but I always remembered the place with the stop signs and little cars. We might have taken a field trip there from pre-school. I am amazed at how much stuff you've saved!!!
I loved Safetyville! My car always died 5 minutes after I got in it. My brothers were usually kicked out for crashing their car into someone. We spent all summer at Kearsley Park. The pool was the coldest on earth no matter how many warm days there were in the summer. I remember a friend being injured on the tobaggan run they had.You had to be careful and bail out before you either hit the trees or slid into the creek. good memories!
Wow,
Safetyville, very good times.
Wow! I remember Safetyville!!! I remember the pool right next to it! We had a blast there as kids!
Safteyville was great. Little orange Corvettes to drive made us all feel bigger than we were. Its too bad that kind of stuff isn't around any more in Flint.
omg dude, I was JUST getting ready to email you and ask you if you had anything relating to that cool "go-cart track" they had at kearsley park!! I vaguely remember my dad taking me there once and this was it!!
Thank you so much!! Teh memories are priceless!!
A Google search for safetyville flint yielded this...I can remember going there only once but it's a memory burned in the brain...I wanted to live in that child-scaled town...I'd forgotten where in Flint it was. We used to go Kearsley Park to toboggan, too...as a nearly 30 year expat from Flint, I'm glad to find this site, too...thanks!
kate
I worked there and so did my sisters; it was a wonderful summer job. When the kids weren't there, we pulled weeds and did other yard work.
There were two bridges in Safetyville, the Big Mac and the Little Mac.
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