What follows are 16 vintage/old photographs of Lagoon Amusement Park, Farmington, Utah.
All pictures are from the Deseret News Archives and most are from the 1960s, or earlier....
This picture shows Lagoon's 3 main buildings, probably from the late 1880s, when it was located by the Great Salt Lake, 3 1/2 miles west of where it is today....
The Deseret News story in November of 1953, after the fire that caused significant damage to Lagoon and its owners' pledge to rebuild.
The east end of the roller coaster was destroyed by the fire in November of 1953.
This is the Lagoon "Showboat," that cruised the park's lake in 1959.
The Wishing Well at Lagoon was a centerpiece of Mother Gooseland at Lagoon in the late 1950s and into the 1960s.
These slides were probably the most popular fixture inside the last Fun House at Lagoon. Riders slid down on a gunny sack...
This rotating tunnel was worth a crawl inside the Fun House, at Lagoon Park of old.
This high speed, spinning wheel was also inside Lagoon's Fun House. Unlike its nearly flat counterpart wheel, where riders got kicked off and the last person left on won, this wheel just pinned riders to the side of the bowl-like wheel by centrifugal force.
Lagoon's former "Million Gallon Pool, with water fit to drink," was the predecessor to today's Lagoon-A-Beach. Note the tall metal slippery slide, that the pool also featured.
Lagoon's old swimming pool boasted a variety of diving boards in its deep end.
This "Flying Swings" ride lasted just a single season in 1964, before it was replaced.
The Space Scrambler ride is shown running in the mid-1960s.
An actor/stuntman falls in a wild west show at Lagoon's Pioneer Village, during the summer of 1976, its inaugural season.
