It's not the way they wanted to leave it, but Bell's Amusement Park has officially come to the end, at least at the Tulsa Fairgrounds. After several extensions the deadline was midnight Sunday. It also ends the sometimes stormy relationship between the Be... Read More »

Sunday was moving day for a Tulsa landmark. The owners of Bell's Amusement Park had until midnight Sunday to vacate the Tulsa County Fairgrounds. The News On 6's Chris Wright reports the Bells were scrambling to haul away everything they could, but they s... Read More »

People from across the U.S. came to Tulsa to ride it, now it is being dismantled. Crews at Bell's Amusement Park have begun removing track from the north end of the Zingo. Zingo was Bell's most famous ride. Robby Bell says his dad built it in 1968 for about $240,000. Robby says the Zingo would cost at least $3 million to duplicate it today, so it's coming down piece by piece.

Bell's lost its lease at the Tulsa County Fairgrounds and it must have all of the rides moved by June 15th.

The people at Bell's have been dismantling rides on the park's midway since the middle of January. Most of the smaller rides have been put into storage at a Tulsa warehouse, and the bigger ones are being temporarily relocated to the manufacturer or put into storage.

Bell’s has been at the Tulsa County Fairgrounds for 55 years. The parks owners have not announced where they plan to rebuild the park, but have said they are certain it will reopen somewhere. Nearly all of Tulsa's surrounding suburbs, Sand Springs, Owasso and Jenks, have expressed an interest in being the next home for the amusement park.

A Tulsa landmark that is moving gets a last minute reprieve, but not for long. Thursday was the deadline for Bell’s Amusement Park to be off the Tulsa County Fairgrounds property, but part of the park is still there. News On 6’s Heather Lewin reports under the agreement with the Tulsa County Public Facilities Trust Authority, anything left on the lot past the deadline, the Bell family has to forfeit and it becomes the property of the authority. But Robby Bell was granted an extension on that deadline Thursday afternoon.

Bell's lost its lease when Tulsa County decided the park was not financially viable. Robby Bell says his family and crew have been working 100-hour weeks. While they have made a lot of progress dismantling the park, he says making Thursday's deadline would have been impossible. "There is no way, the US Army couldn't tear this amusement park down, in a fashion to have it reassembled at some point, in 120 days."

Bell asked for an extension to September 1, but was given much less by the Tulsa County Public Facilities Trust Authority. He now will have until June 15 to finish the job.

Robby Bell says it will cost about half a million dollars to tear the park down. The family will lose anything left behind.

The owners of Bell's Amusement Park want more time to move. They’ve asked for an extension to remove their equipment from the property. The lease expired November 8th and under that agreement, Bell's has 120 days to get out. But the park is now asking that it be given until September 1st to move. Bell’s says it will take nine months to disassemble and move the park's equipment. Tulsa County Expo Square officials expect to make a decision on the extension in the next few days.

Bell's Amusement Park opened its doors today to customers looking to ride the roller coaster Zingo or seek other diversions on a sunny, mild day. Located in midtown adjacent to the Tulsa State Fairgrounds, Bell's bore the brunt of a thunderstorm on June 6th that collapsed over a roughly 2-square-mile area and unleashed hurricane-force winds.

he head of a Tulsa amusement park expects all rides to be operational when the storm-damaged park reopens next week. Bell's President Robby Bell says the Ferris wheel was destroyed and support timbers on the Zingo roller coaster were split during the June 6th storm. Bell and his crew have been working with roller coaster experts and state ride inspectors to repair other damage so that the family owned park can reopen for business on Monday.

The Tulsa County fairgrounds were hit hard by a severe thunderstorm Tuesday morning. Several buildings at the fairgrounds have roof damage and no electricity. News on 6 reporter Jennifer Loren says the Ferris wheel at Bells Amusement Park was damaged. It is basically been folded in half. Bells' owner says this is the worst storm to come through here in more than 20 years. The Zingo is also damaged with an uprooted tree now lying across its tracks. The owner says there is so much damage, its going to take a while to survey everything and come up with a game plan for the future.

OKLAHOMA CITY Labor Commissioner Brenda Reneau today announced that amusement ride inspectors will take a careful look at Bell's Amusement Park in Tulsa, which was extensively damaged in a severe storm earlier this week. Reneau says inspectors will re-inspect the area and determine if the rides are safe for patrons.

Bell's Amusement Park and the surrounding neighborhood finally appear to be on the same track after a twisting and turning five-year ride in court over construction of a new roller coaster. District Judge David Peterson on Friday signed a settlement agreement in which the neighborhood agreed to support the new ride as long as it is built east of the Zingo roller coaster and within Bell's existing park boundaries.