FILE A child enjoys her ride on the Joyland carousel in 2006. Mike Hutmacher The Wichita Eagle Former Joyland owner Stanley Nelson told stories of the amusement park’s golden years in 2009.

The Eagle has been running a series of articles in the past week about the place of Joyland in Wichita’s history. Read here about whether the city will ever get another amusement park and here ...

WICHITA, Kansas – A Wichita icon is being demolished. Wrecking crews are at the old Joyland Park this week continuing to bring down the buildings and hauling them off. “As a teenager, we would ...

A new corporation, called Joyland Wichita LLC, was created this month ... It is the only public amusement park between Oklahoma City and Kansas City. Olivia Reynolds, vice president of the Greater ...

The rise and fall of Joyland Amusement Park, a Wichita, KS icon. A Wichita icon is remembered in this special. Joyland Amusement Park was a fun destination for decades until its sad demise.

WICHITA, Kansas – Louie, a mascot for an amusement ... ago.Photo Gallery | Louie the Clown returns Louie disappeared from the Joyland property in 2005 or 2006 but wasn’t reported stolen ...

A glimmer of hope for a Wichita amusement park has been snuffed out once again. Joyland, which served the Wichita area for more than six decades, closed in 2006. A nonprofit had sought to raise ...

WICHITA, Kan. — A convicted sex offender has been ordered to spend a year and three months in prison in the theft of a nearly life-sized carved clown that was the mascot of a closed Kansas ...

Nearly a decade after he went missing, the beloved mascot at Wichita’s Joyland amusement park is ... according to Kansas Department of Corrections records. He is serving his sentence at the ...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) - A fire has started on the grounds of the former Joyland Amusement Park in Wichita. The Wichita Eagle reports that the fire started Tuesday afternoon and consumed both grass ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - If you’re heading to the theater next month, be prepared for a bit of nostalgia. Music Theatre Wichita will conduct seven performances of “Cats” from Sept. 6-10 at ...

For decades, Joyland’s Louie the Clown played the Wurlitzer Style 160 “Mammoth” Military Band Organ. The Historic Preservation Alliance of Wichita and Sedgwick County bought the Joyland ...