Action Park: Fast Times, Wild Rides, and the Untold Story of America's Most Dangerous Amusement Park

by Andy Mulvihill

“Guess what?” he told my mother. “We own Vernon Valley.” He might as well have said that we now owned a salvage-diving operation or a circus. “Why?” she asked. “I decided it might be fun,” he said. That was all the explanation she was going to get.