For Sale: The Entire Contents of a Colorado Theme Park In the market for a roller coaster? Here's your chance.

Abandoned street and vacant buildings at Heritage Square. Xnatedawgx/(CC BY-SA 3.0)

In June, after 47 years of laughter and screams, the Heritage Square Amusement Park in Golden, Colorado had its final ride. On Friday, October 25, its entire contents—from a Ferris wheel, to a roller coaster, to the dizzying Tilt-a-Whirl—are being auctioned off to the public on-site.

A 30-minute drive from Denver, Heritage Square was a Gold Rush-themed, free-admission family destination complete with artisan shops, a wedding chapel, a music hall, and the second alpine slide ever built in North America. (That’s a long chute on the side of a hill with wheeled carts sliding down it.) The park’s architecture was476 F.2d 33
UNITED STATES of America, Appellee,v.Alfred Lee SIMMONS, Appellant.
No. 72-2174.
United States Court of Appeals,Ninth Circuit.
March 12, 1973.

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Michael D. Nasatir, of Nasatir, Sherman & Hirsch, Beverly Hills, Cal., for appellant.


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William D. Keller, U. S. Atty., Eric A. Nobles, John K. Cameron, Jr., Asst. U. S. Attys., Los Angeles, Cal., for appellee.


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Before MERRILL and CHOY, Circuit Judges and ENRIGHT,a District Judge.

ENRIGHT, District Judge:

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The appellant, Alfred Lee Simmons, was found guilty after jury trial for a knowing failure to report for induction into the armed forces of the United States.  On this appeal, he raises four principal issues as grounds for reversal.  He argues: (a) that he was denied due process when, after the originally assigned judge took ill, in apparent contravention of the applicable Local Rules, his