When and What:  1920's Excelsior Amusement Park, Lake Minnetonka Excelsior, Minnesota. Many people believe this roller coaster has been operating now in three different centuries. Originally at the Minnesota State Fair Grounds in the 1800's it was torn down and rebuilt at Excelsior in the earlier part of the 1900's. Then in the 1970's it was moved to Valley Fair an amusement park south west of Minneapolis where it is in operation today.

It makes a very good story but I have been told by someone who sounds like an expert on the subject that while Valley Fair did acquire the large old Carousel used at Excelsior, Vally Fair's Coaster is a different design so even if some of the materials "might" have been scavenged from Excelsior's Cyclone, the Vally Fair coaster "High Roller" is not the Excelsior Coaster. Sounds reasonable to me.

When I get a chance in another life time maybe I'll research this subject to discover all the facts and myths about it all. In any case the coaster was fun and it's sad it was torn down to build Condos, or whatever it was they built in it's place.

Thanks to Keith Hopkins for enlightening me about this popular myth.