Comments: The Skyline Park Rollercoaster was, I believe, called the Skyking. It was a gigantic wooden one that I only rode once. My dad worked at American Airlines and they used to have the company picnic there before it moved to Bell's. It seems that rollercoaster collapsed during a ride and killed some folks and after that the park could never recover and folded too.

I was thinkin' about that giant yellow slide from the late 60's-early 70's that we rode down on gunnysacks, and them humps on it that crushed our vertibrates. I don't remember where it was located, but it just popped back into me brain. Anyone else get crippled on it?

I believe he might have been talking about the big slide at Skyline Amusement Park, which was north of Glenpool on 121st Street. It had older rides than Bell's, and had what I believe was billed as the "longest roller coaster in the world." It seemed to go for miles. It also had a large pond for swimming and a train ride.

In the early 70s it was renamed "Indian Nations Park" and closed for good shortly after that. It's now the location of a housing development.

There was an old abandoned amusement park down south of Tulsa (pretty sure it was Skyline), and we used to go there after dark, climb the fence and get inside, and go and WALK the giant wooden rollercoaster all the way around in the dark. And yeah, we'd get high while we did that. I remember messing around in there 3 or 4 times until we got caught one night by a security guard while out on a small lake in some paddle boats. We didn't get in trouble; he just made us leave. :-)

Didn't a tornado take out the coaster in or around maybe mid-1970s? I remember driving to a park outside Tulsa and seeing the tracks go up and the rest was blown away.

If it wasn't Skyline, can anyone tell me what it was? I've wondered for awhile if it was Skyline or I've been mixed up.

Speaking of the Skyline Amusement Park, there is a Country Club at the site now. I played a dance there a while back, and noticed they had made fencing from the old iron tracks from the roller coaster. There are still some remnants of the old park on the site.

Skyline Park is now an upscale housing development named Five Oaks Ranch. It features a ski-lodge type building that serves as a recreation and events center. A large deck overlooks a beautiful lake.

And when a worker there told me that lake was part of the old Skyline Amusement Park I was stunned. He pointed to where the roller coaster used to be and then I could picture the old park. There's a small building there - kind of rickety now - that was once a concession stand.

If you go east on 121st off the Beeline you'll see the entrance (a small stone pillar) on the south side...like between Elwood and Elm(?)...not the way we used to go to the park.

Skyline Lake is about 3 miles south of the Jones Airport on Elm (which is Peoria on the west side of the river), then about a 1/2 mile east on 121st St.

Does anyone recall the name of, or have any photos of the recreation, swimming and amusement park south of Jenks, was it called "Skyline"...

I met the last person to own it (Farris Saffa) at the old site. He brought a bunch of pictures with him and I shot them on Beta.

Skyline was owned by F. H. "Red" Cox and operated during the 50s and 60s until it was brought by Farris Saffa in '69 when it became Indian Nations Park. I remember going with my parents to some American Airlines picnics at the park. It had a really good roller coaster as I remember.

I was thinkin' about that giant yellow slide from the late 60's-early 70's that we rode down on gunnysacks, and them humps on it that crushed our vertibrates. I don't remember where it was located, but it just popped back into me brain. Anyone else get crippled on it?"

I believe he might have been talking about the big slide at Skyline Amusement Park, which was north of Glenpool on 121st Street. It had older rides than Bell's, and had what I believe was billed as the "longest roller coaster in the world." It seemed to go for miles. It also had a large pond for swimming and a train ride.

Many of us took our first (and maybe only) real pony ride here.

Dave Harmon said: I remember going to Skyline in '59 for a hayride.

Skyline Park's roller coaster, the Sky King. At one time, it was the world's longest.

The Skyline Park roller coaster was, I believe, called the Sky King. It was a gigantic wooden one that I only rode once. My dad worked at American Airlines and they used to have the company picnic there before it moved to Bell's.

Bullet -- A perennial favorite: the Bullet, aka the Roll-O-Plane

Tilt-A-Whirl

Another classic: the Tilt-A-Whirl

Boat ride Anchors aweigh, mateys, for the electric boat ride.

My family used to go to the park in the mid/late 60s. My mom, sister and myself almost drowned in the pond (seen through the eyes of a six year old, I remember it as a big lake) when my mom stepped into a deep hole in the sandy bottom. My grandfather had to jump in fully clothed and rescue us. I also remember the old roller coaster as quite a wild ride.

A three-hour tour on the lake by paddle boat

Warren Petroleum, where my dad worked, had its company picnic at Skyline one year. I remember swimming in that pond/lake. It had a sandy bottom, so it was very clear. Using a mask and being able to see something underwater was very important to me as a huge "Sea Hunt" fan.