Pleasure Island (Borger, Texas amusement park)

Pleasure Island is a defunct Amusement Park was located on South Main Street, between Huber Park and Huber Baseball Field, Borger, Texas .

Infobox Amusement park
name = Pleasure Island

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location = Borger Texas
location3 = USA
opening_date = 1960s
closing_date = 1980s
area = Less than 1/2 a City Block
rides = 7
owners = 2
Attractions = Miniature Golf 18 Holes

About Pleasure Island

Pleasure Island was built in the early 1960s with rides geared for young children. When it first opened, the park included a small dike-contained pond which featured plywood constructed paddle boats, an 18 hole miniature golf course, a merry-go-round, kiddie car and airplane rides, a hand-crank tracked rail ride and a small train that carried guests around the circumference of the park. Pleasure Island was a fun place to take the kids, eat cotton candy and popcorn and spend time as a family.

Pleasure Island was open evenings and weekends.

The park was built and opened in the 60s by a petroleum engineer who opened it as more of a hobby than as a profit making venture. It was surrounded by Huber park on the south west side and Huber Baseball Park on the north and East.

The park's name changed in the 1980s in a contest to give the park a new name; One Flag Over Borger was picked. Today Pleasure Island is just a memory. The last remaining parts were removed and the area black-topped and now is a Free RV parking area (Huber Park Free RV Park)

A local collector owned the peddle cars and airplanes but, all were sold to other collectors. Several peddle cars and planes eventually found a home in a restaurant in near-by Amarillo, Texas called "All the Fixin's" which is now closed.

Rides and Attractions

"Rides:"
*Train, Medium Size Train carried Passengers around the Park
*Paddle Boats, Small boats kids could paddle or push with the paddle around a man made pond
*Kids Car Ride, Was made with peddle cars
*Kids Airplane Ride, Peddle Airplanes which hung from chains and went around in a circle
*Kids Boats Ride, Around and Around they went
*Hand Cranked Ride, On small train track
*The Hammer, What a thrill ride for a kiddies park.

"Attractions:"
18 Hole Miniature Golf Coarse, Hazzards: A Steep Hill and A Dutch Windmill