This is an original bottle and six of the original rings, from a ring toss game, that were used in the late 1960s and early 1970s at Kennywood Park in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania which is an amusement park East of Pittsburgh.
I worked there over several summers in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Every so often Kennywood would refurbish or upgrade the games or they would replace items. This bottle and rings were going to be thrown away and I rescued several of the bottles and a box of rings from the trash bin.
I'm going to keep one set but will be selling the others individually.
In those days every school in Pittsburgh had a day that all of their students would go to Kennywood Park The kids would buy tickets at their schools along with refreshment tickets. I think that they were 10¢ apiece. Rides were 1 or 2 tickets and if I remember the food was 2 - 5 tickets. That meant that a ride would cost 10¢ or 20¢ and an ice cream cone, drink, or hotdog would cost less than 50¢> Boy, those were the days!
I worked summers at Kennywood Park in the 1960s and 1970s. I had various jobs at the park. Some days I collected Amusement Tickets at some of the rides or I walked around the amusement park with a broom and dustpan cleaning up litter.
I worked various games where people tried their luck. I collected the money and handed out rings for the ring toss game, baseballs to try to knock over milk bottles, darts to try to pop balloons, fishing rods for the fish pond, bb guns for the shooting gallery and others.
I enjoyed when I worked the Penny Arcade and I also worked at the coin pitch and n the locker room at the Kennywood pool which closed in 1973.
Back then games usually cost 10¢ or 15¢ and at some games you could get three tries for 25¢>
Do you remember Cowboy Joe sitting on a bench. He was a life sized cowboy and people would sit beside him and have their picture taken. At one time I had one of the original wood benches that he sat on as well as several of the other iconic green wood benches that were placed around the park. They added a fresh coat of paint to them every year before the park opened. After several years the wood slats would start to rot and they would throw the benches away. I remember my dad and I driving to the park in his truck and loading it up with several of the benches that were being thrown away. They sat in our backyard for years.
We went to Kennywood with our kids and grandchildren a few years ago. It brought back a lot of memories. I couldn't believe the prices for everything though.
If anyone has fond memories of Kennywood Park I would love to hear them.