WILL MISS YOU - Sunday 6 pm: Last ticket to Appu Ghar
IT HAS the shortest roller coaster in the world perhaps - the ride is over before you can say roller coaster - and the House of Horrors is more funny than scary But Appu Ghar is among things that made Delhi. And now, it's going.
The last ticket will be sold at 6 pm on Sunday and the amusement park will shut down a few hours aftel: 24 years after going into business in 1984. It's curtains for good, for now at least.
"We had requested the government for alternate land somewhere to shift the park. But it was turned down," said B.G. Krishnan, chief operating officer of Appu Ghar. "We are closing for ever"
"We grew up with Appu Ghar," said singer Palash Sen of Euphoria. "Shutting the park is especially sad in a city, which is starved of such amusement parks for children. After Chanakya, this is the second blow to Delhi's heritage."
Appu Ghar was the brainchild of then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi who wanted a Disneyland kind of an amusement park for Delhi. She brought this up with a man named Gian Vijeswar in Sweden in 1982. International Amusement Ltd - a company founded by
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The last ticket will be sold at 6 pm on Sunday and the amusement park will shut down a few hours aftel: 24 years after going into business in 1984. It's curtains for good, for now at least.
"We had requested the government for alternate land somewhere to shift the park. But it was turned down," said B.G. Krishnan, chief operating officer of Appu Ghar. "We are closing for ever"
"We grew up with Appu Ghar," said singer Palash Sen of Euphoria. "Shutting the park is especially sad in a city, which is starved of such amusement parks for children. After Chanakya, this is the second blow to Delhi's heritage."
Appu Ghar was the brainchild of then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi who wanted a Disneyland kind of an amusement park for Delhi. She brought this up with a man named Gian Vijeswar in Sweden in 1982. International Amusement Ltd - a company founded by
To read the full article, click here...
To read the ePaper, visit : http://epaper.hindustantimes.com
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