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🏞️ When a Dollar Bought a Silver Dollar: Freedomland and the Lost Future of the Bronx

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Kerry Lutz
Aug 31, 2025
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When I was a kid growing up near New York, I remember stepping into a place that felt like pure magic. It wasn’t Disneyland, it wasn’t Coney Island — it was Freedomland U.S.A., a sprawling amusement park that opened in the Bronx in 1960.

Admission was $1.00 for adults. But here’s the kicker: they sold you real U.S. silver dollars to spend throughout the …

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