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Rehoboth Beach’s Funland opens for 2023 season

A little bit of rain couldn’t stop 60-year tradition
Rehoboth Beach’s Funland has opened for the 2023 season. Margot Booth, left, and Birdie Stoeckel enjoy the kiddy car ride. CHRIS FLOOD PHOTOS
Chris Flood
May 19, 2023

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Funland
6 Delaware Ave.
Rehoboth Beach, DE 19971
United States

Continuing its six-decade tradition of a Mother’s Day weekend opening, Rehoboth Beach’s Funland opened for the 2023 season May 13.

Just like last year, there was rain. Also like last year, customers didn’t care, because within minutes of opening there were hundreds of people milling about playing games and riding rides in the rain.

Funland opened in 1962. There have only been three years it didn’t open on Mother’s Day weekend – in 1979 when the new bumper car building was under construction; in 1989 when the stucco building was not yet completed; and in 2020 during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.

For more information on Funland, 6 Delaware Ave., go to funlandrehoboth.com or call 302-227-1921. 

 

There were players ready to go on the horse race game before Neil Fasnacht, son of co-founders Jean and Al Fasnacht, could finish opening up the gates.
Bryce Turner of Lewes has good form, but the shot still didn’t fall.
Alec Drake of Wilmington readies for contact.
Clearly the two in front convinced the three behind them it would be a good idea to ride the Sea Dragon.
Old ride and game signs make for a good front to a desk.
Yes, those are feet of people hanging upside down on the Superflip 360.
The gates are open and the rides are on, which means there’s a line for tickets.
Someone already left a little ducky behind.
Bright-yellow carousel stencils are spray-painted on the ground.
There were a lot of parents and grandparents taking photos and videos of their kids, including (l-r) Andrea Glinski, Cindy Hoachlander and Seth Glinski.
Ever wonder why Funland’s floors are so clean? Now you know.
Grandmother Debbie Supinski looks intently while 3-year-old Gigi Tuma can hardly watch.
It was raining, so employee Larry Abadia has on his raincoat while manning the Freespin.
It wasn’t all kids; Mike Hutchinson tosses the ole Skee Ball around.
The clowns for Down the Clown appear to be laughing, but they’re still a bit scary looking.
Less than an hour into opening day, dad Anthony Jang was carrying a sleeping Sophie around.

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Chris Flood has been working for the Cape Gazette since early 2014. He currently covers Rehoboth Beach and Henlopen Acres, but has also covered Dewey Beach and the state government. He covers environmental stories, business stories and random stories on subjects he finds interesting, and he also writes a column called Choppin’ Wood that runs every other week. Additionally, Flood moonlights as the company’s circulation manager, which primarily means fixing boxes that are jammed with coins during daylight hours, but sometimes means delivering papers in the middle of the night. He’s a graduate of the University of Maine and the Landing School of Boat Building & Design.

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