24/07/2025
Delta Village began as an amusement park in the town of Tallulah Louisiana. It was open in full operation by the early 1970s and closed in the late 1970s. This was a park with only about a half a dozen rides, which was designed to appeal to small children. It would also include a petting zoo, replicas od Wild West building's and a "Storybook Land" with relicas of objects from nursery rhymes, also designed to appeal to small children. The park is remembered for its Wild West Medicine Show which featured" Chief Running Wild" (Ray Stevens) and his Indian Riders who would perform various types of stunt riding. Cowboys would perform stunt fist fights and jump off roof tops. The show also usually featured a medicine man trying to sell cough syrup as a miracle drug. Delta Village would contain one of the first coin operated games in which visitors could try out their quick draw skills against the fastest cowboy gunman robot in the West. There were also midway games in which one could try to win a gold fish by throwing a ping pong ball ina ssmall glass container. Children could watch a chicken play the piano for a nickel or walk through the Gravity House where objects appear to roll uphill. Amusement park rides include a log flume, train ride with a gorilla, and a boat ride with simulated explosions in the river. There was also a giant slide similar to those seen at state fairs, where visitors would climb up stairs and ride down on a bean sack. Today nothing remains of the amusement park but just the home and the owners son who was a little boy during the time the oark was open.
