Pioneer City Davie Fl.

Just to comment on the post from Ron Roeder reprinting a Wikipedia article about Pioneer City. Mr. Weiss was partners in Pioneer City with my father, Joseph Hancock and Richard Griffin, Sr. They developed and built Pioneer City and were the owners. Mr. Weiss was not the sole creator and owner of Pioneer City. I was there when it was built and…[Read more]

I vaguely remember going to this park when I was about seven years old. I have to grill my dad, see if I can come up with more details.

Pioneer City (from Wikipedia) was an Old West theme park located across the street from Flamingo Gardens in Davie, Florida.
The park was opened on Memorial Day weekend 1966 by photography studio magnate Myron M. “Mike” Weiss, Sr. as a built-to-scale Dodge City, Kansas, complete with a saloon, general store, Pony Express office, opera house and cas…[Read more]