Editing Arrow Development (section)

===Non-Disney rides===
The 1947 carousel at Alum Rock was later moved to the [[Happy Hollow Park & Zoo]] in 1964, where it still operates as the King Neptune's Carousel.<ref name=HH-History/> Karl and Ed also set up a separate company called Easbey<ref name="Roller Coasters, Flumes and Flying Saucers" />{{rp|293}} which won a contract with the city of Oakland, California, to install rides at the [[Children's Fairyland]] at [[Lake Merritt]], which was built in 1950. The Flecto Carousel was built by Arrow in 1950, although it was not installed at Fairyland until 2002.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://cfairyland.blogspot.com/2016/03/a-carousel-of-love.html |title=A Carousel of Love |date=March 23, 2016 |website=Children's Fairyland [blog] |access-date=8 November 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2016/03/30/snapp-shots-restored-fairyland-carousel-opens-to-public/ |title=Snapp Shots: Restored Fairyland carousel opens to public |author=Snapp, Martin |date=March 30, 2016 |newspaper=East Bay Times |access-date=8 November 2019}}</ref>

In 1955, Arrow built a demonstration children's park called Playtown, next to [[Palo Alto]]'s Town and Country Village Shopping Center, where they demonstrated new rides including a miniature train, boat, "Arrow-plane," and carousel. They also had a demonstration park across the bay near [[San Leandro]] and another in [[Los Altos, California|Los Altos]].

On August 21, 1960, a tragic accident occurred at Playtown involving the son of [[Frank Freidel]], a visiting professor at Stanford, known for his extensive biography of Franklin Roosevelt.  While Frank's wife Madeleine was buying tickets for the miniature train ride, their {{frac|3|1|2}} year old son Phillip wandered off, sat down on the tracks and was hit by the train, suffering massive head and leg injuries. He was pronounced dead on arrival at the Palo Alto-Stanford Hospital.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://newspaperarchive.com/san-mateo-times-aug-22-1960-p-18/ |title=Shop Center's Play Train Kills Boy, 3 |newspaper=San Mateo Times |url-access=subscription |date=August 22, 1960 |access-date=8 November 2019}}</ref> Playtown closed soon after.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cestcop.com/Playtown.htm |title=Playtown Town & Country Village, Palo Alto |publisher=Cestcop.com |date=June 7, 2010 |access-date=January 9, 2014 |first=Mike |last=Carroll |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150111094826/http://www.cestcop.com/Playtown.htm |archive-date=January 11, 2015 |url-status=usurped |df=mdy-all }}</ref>

[[File:Danny Train 4933 (5671032060).jpg|thumb|right|Danny the Dragon guided train at [[Happy Hollow Park & Zoo]], San Jose]]
Arrow developed the Mystery Island Banana Train ride for [[Pacific Ocean Park]], which was one of the opening-day rides in 1958.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.westland.net/venicehistory/articles/pop.htm |title=Pacific Ocean Park (1958-1967) |author=Stanton, Jeffrey |date=April 6, 1998 |website=Westland |access-date=8 November 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://boingboing.net/2014/05/05/pacificoceanpark.html |title=10 photos from L.A.'s long-gone Pacific Ocean Park, a day out by the sea you'll never enjoy |author=Merritt, Chris |date=May 5, 2014 |website=Boing Boing |access-date=8 November 2019}}</ref> Arrow also developed an extensive [[Alice in Wonderland]] ride for [[Blackpool Pleasure Beach]], which opened in 1961.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://arrowdevelopment.blogspot.com/2016/12/alices-english-twin.html |title=Alice's English Twin |date=December 18, 2016 |website=Building Disney's Dream Rides: Arrow Development — The Little Company That Could [blog] |access-date=8 November 2019}}</ref> For the 1962 [[Seattle World's Fair]], Arrow created the "Space Whirl", a [[teacup ride]] which simulated the feeling of being launched into space.

For [[Freedomland U.S.A.]], located in New York City from 1960 to 1964, Arrow created four dark rides (Earthquake, Buccaneer, Tornado and Mine Cave), Spin-A-Top (similar to Disneyland's Mad Tea Party), horse-drawn street cars, antique cars (known as Horseless Carriage) and freeway cars for the Satellite City Turnpike. Arrow's contributions to the park are documented in ''Freedomland U.S.A.: The Definitive History'' published by Theme Park Press (2019). Arrow also created the Danny the Dragon train ride (two trains) for Freedomland <ref>{{cite web |url=http://arrowdevelopment.blogspot.com/2016/05/danny-dragon.html |title=Danny the Dragon's Legacy |date=May 27, 2016 |website=Building Disney's Dream Rides: Arrow Development — The Little Company That Could [blog] |access-date=8 November 2019}}</ref> and Happy Hollow (1961),<ref name=HH-History>{{cite web |url=https://happyhollow.org/about-us/our-history/ |title=Our History |website=Happy Hollow Park & Zoo |access-date=8 November 2019}}</ref> the Cave Train and vintage auto rides for the [[Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk]] and [[Adventureland (New York)]], teacup ("snowball") and bobsled rides for [[Santa's Village (Scotts Valley)|Santa's Village]] in Scotts Valley, CA, [http://www.frontiervillage.net/pages/antauto.html Frontier Village's Antique Car Ride], the Timber Mountain Log and Hat Dance ("Sombrero") rides at [[Knott's Berry Farm]], a suspended monorail and electric boat ride for the [[Anheuser-Busch]] brewery in Van Nuys, CA and Florida<ref>{{cite news |newspaper=San Jose Mercury News |date=September 2, 1962 |title=Your Fun is Their Business |first=Harold V. |last=Streeter}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/535345/firm_creates_amusement_rides_abilene/ |newspaper=Abilene Reporter-News |date=July 26, 1962 |page=53 |agency=AP |title=Firm Creates Amusement Ride Ideas |first=Harold V. |last=Streeter}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.monorails.org/tmspages/BuschT.html |title=Novelty Monorails - Busch Gardens, Tampa |publisher=Monorails.org |access-date=January 9, 2014 |first=David B. |last=Simons Jr. |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140128150139/http://www.monorails.org/tMspages/BuschT.html |archive-date=January 28, 2014 |df=mdy }}</ref> and an [[omnimover]] type ride for Hershey's Chocolate World Great American Chocolate Tour.

Arrow reinvented and improved on the flume ride which had been popular in the early 1900s. The first modern log flume ride being [[El Aserradero]] at [[Six Flags Over Texas]] which opened in 1963. [[Runaway Mine Train (Six Flags Over Texas)|The Runaway Mine Train]] (1966), designed by [[Ron Toomer]], was both the first mine train roller coaster and the first roller coaster with an underwater tunnel. Arrow's second mine train ride opened at [[Six Flags over Georgia]] in 1967, followed by another at [[Cedar Point]] in 1969. Arrow Development would build 22 flume rides between 1970 and 1975. Toomer was promoted to Manager of Engineering at Arrow Development in 1971.

Arrow's 1979 brochure listed 32 roller coasters, 12 Runaway Mine Trains, 43 Flume rides, 5 "Space Whirl" rides, 4 Rub-a-Dubs, 7 Dark Rides, 20 Special Systems, 49 Antique Car and 28 Sports Car ride installations. Arrow's 1979 product brochure also listed eight Merry-Go-Rounds, mostly installed in California, ranging from {{convert|20|to|60|ft|m|2}} in [[diameter]].