Talk:Tilden Regional Park
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[edit] Tilden as Amusement Park
By almost any definition of 'amusement park' I've ever heard, Tilden does not qualify. It is an outdoor nature park that happens to have one traditional amusement park ride - a merry go round - in it. That hardly qualifies it as an amusement park. If someone said to you 'hey, lets go to this amusement park I know of' and you said 'great idea, I love amusement parks more than anything else in the world' and you ended up at Tilden, you would be sorely disappointed.--Fizbin (talk) 18:28, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
There is a science museum to have fun in, a train to be ridden, a lake to swim in, a nature center to see.a merry go round to go around in. It fits my idea of a "amusement area in the BAy Area" though I hear what you are saying that it is not Marine World AfricaUSA or Great America. rkmlai (talk) 18:34, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
- As I said above, calling it an amusement park is exceedingly deceptive advertising. Great America and the Santa Cruz Boardwalk are amusement parks - Tilden is not. By your definition 90% of the parks in the Bay Area are amusement parks. --Fizbin (talk) 19:07, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
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- I grew up in Berkeley. Went swimming in Lake Anza, then took my kids to the Redwood Valley Railway and Tilden Park Merry-Go-Round, then later took my girlfriend's dog on walks around Lake Anza. These were the less expensive, local, environmental, amusement parks of my time. I still think Tilden should be listed as an place of "amusement" and "park" rkmlai (talk) 20:47, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
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[edit] Tilden Picture
The picture and caption are obviously mismatched, and were removed from the entry. The photo is of a person, the caption says it is a picture of the park. If someone can confirm that the photo is of Mr. Tilden, perhaps that should be shown under the page for that individual, rather than for the park. Here is what was removed:
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| View of Inspiration Point from the Nimitz Way, Tilden Regional Park, California |
- No idea whether that is Mr Tilden, but there used to be a picture of the park there! I'll have a look for it, and re-upload if necessary. Pictures on Wikipedia do seem to acquire a life (or death) of their own, sometimes seglea 21:44, 10 May 2004 (UTC)
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- turns out the picture is Samuel Tilden, uploaded in all innocence by ChrisDJackson who was doing a biog of him. No connection with the park, unless he turns out to be a relative of Charles Lee Tilden - maybe ChrisDJackson will know seglea 21:55, 10 May 2004 (UTC)
