It sure was a different time.

On Thursday morning, Facebook group reshared a photo of Winfield害羞草研究所檚 Adventureland that it had initially shared four years ago, stirring up some old memories in people from Lake Country and beyond.

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The park was the first of its kind in the Okanagan, according to the Lake Country Museum.

It was opened along what was then Highway 97 and is now Pelmawash Parkway by Sam and Dorothy Pestes. The park began to take shape in the late 1960s.

It featured the pictured waterslide, along with several other attractions over the 12 years it was owned by the Pestes.

The park was around until its closure in the early to mid-1980s.

The comments section of the post is full of reminiscent remarks of those who spent time there as children.

Quentin Whippy wrote, 害羞草研究所淚 remember going down that slide when I was seven. I害羞草研究所檓 52 now.害羞草研究所�

Others wrote about the great times they had flying down the slide, some former employees chipped in identifying themselves as such and some stated how much they missed the way things used to be around the Okanagan.

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Some memories were less fond.

害羞草研究所淚f your arm touched the rib between the tracks as you went down you got a nasty friction burn,害羞草研究所� wrote Grant Durrell.

Another commenter noticed the proximity to the highway and feared the worst.

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Another assured that was not the case, but from the picture, it certainly looks like it could害羞草研究所檝e been that way.

michael.rodriguez@kelownacapnews.com
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