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I'm always getting emails from people who have a lot of interesting stories about what they remember about Lagoon. This page will feature many of these emails. If you have anything to share, email it to me at farmingtonstar@hotmail.com and PLEASE INCLUDE YOUR FIRST NAME & YOUR LOCATION! (Example: Joe - Milwaukee, Wisconsin). Submissions are edited for clarity and content. "I remember that when you would climb the metal stairs up to the slides you could see between the steps and there was a storage room way back and behind the slides. You're gonna think I'm crazy, but if you stopped and looked back in there you could see what looked like mannequins with their front torso sliced open and all of the guts removed. You could see the rib cage and the spinal cord in the back. Also the arteries and possibly even the kidneys and some intestines. It used to really freak me out. No wonder some kids felt uneasy in that place. They were probably some old props from the Terroride since it is right next to it. I wonder if anyone else remembers that. And one more thing about the Fun House. I remember that in order to get onto the main floor after you have gone through the gravity room with the floating ping pong balls, you'd find yourself stuck in a room with many doors and you had to choose the right one to get out. I seem to remember that one was a broom closet with an ironing board. Eventually you'd find the right one and then get into the main room." Mike M. "I remember the Giant Coaster as it was in the 1960s. The cars were silver with red trim and they had lights on the front. I remember that it was possible to take a re-ride if you had the appropriate number of tickets ready. There used to be a sign at the opposite end of the track (opposite from the loading dock) that told riders to have seven tickets ready if they wanted a re-ride. I only took advantage of this option a couple of times, however. Tickets used to be sold in front of the ride as can be seen from the black and white photograph [see Photos on the Roller Coaster page]. Following the ride, guests would run down a ramp immediately to the north of The Jets (Flying Aces). This was before the crossover ramp was built in the early 1970s. There used to be an older gentleman who nearly always worked the Roller Coaster that was totally bald and very stern in keeping kids in line. This was before the automatic self-closing gates were installed in the early 70s." Steve A. Moreno Valley, CA "I was a small child around the age of six or seven. This would have been in the early 80’s. My family had chosen to go to Lagoon instead of staying in Brigham City for the Peach Days Celebration. Near the entrance to the Rockets was a little planter that contained cactus. I remember not riding the Rockets and waiting for my family members to get off. I sat down and realized I had sat on a cactus. This was early evening time and remember not being able to ride anymore rides and always having a pain in my butt." Cameron Ogden, UT "Here is a photo of my wife and son on the Lagoon carousel in the 1970s. My son Bron is on my favorite Carousel horse, the one I liked best when I was a kid." Steve M. Logan, UT (raised in Kaysville)  Photo: Steve Murdock "As a kid going to Lagoon every summer in the 1960s I was always fascinated with the swimming pool. Since we generally went to Lagoon only once each summer I hated to take up my day in the pool rather than enjoying the rides and other attractions. However I recall after watching a television commercial for Lagoon ('Zoom, zoom, zoom, zoom, Zoom to happy Lagoon. Go up and down and all around, there's 91 rides and games to be found...') I was determined that I was going to swim in that water 'fit to drink.' Now that nearly forty years have passed I can freely admit that while swimming in the Lagoon pool, I tested the ad slogan and I actually took a huge drink of water while swimming that day. This was not a single sip as a test. This was an open-mouth, multi-gulp consumption of public swimming pool water that quenched my thirst entirely. I drank the water and never looked back. While I would never advise others to follow suit, I can attest to the fact that the water in Lagoon's pool actually was 'fit to drink.' " Steve A. Moreno Valley, CA
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