Inventor: Dwight L. Myers
Assignee: Water-Boggan, Inc.
Patent number: 3923301
Filing date: Sep 19, 1974
Issue date: Dec 2, 1975

Summer’s here kids and it’s time to dust off the board shorts and head to the local waterpark… These stunning illustrations from 1974 describe a method of using the natural contours and topography of hilly land bordering a body of water to carve a waterside trench. The slide zig-zags through the beautiful landscape past trees and rocks down to a landing pool at the bottom of the slideway to provide safe deacceleration for successive riders…

The Golden Age of Summer where nature and man intertwine in a beautiful dance… Legend has it that my local waterpark ‘The Rainbow Rapids’ Dun Laoghaire were shut down after a kid wearing a ring lost a finger in the tube…

