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Rare? Dogpatch Arkansas USA Token?

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Never have I saw anything like this researches it and said it was pretty rare? What are opinions?
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The was a short time amusement park based on the comic, it was their arcade token. Opened in 1968 closed in 1993. Based on Al Capp's famous comic strip Lil Abner, Dogpatch USA was a small Arkansas theme park that capitalized on cartoonish hill folk, a theme that failed to attract the hundreds of thousands of projected guests. Outside consultants projected that the park would attract 400,000 people in its first year alone, however the park would never attract half that many people. The park changed hands a number of times and lost much of its original backwoods themes in the years before its final closure In 2005 the land was awarded to a young man who nearly decapitated himself on the property in an ATV accident, but it is currently being parceled out to buyers with an interest in revitalizing the ruins. However much of the abandoned Dogpatch USA sites are still standing and are popular among urban explorers. Just be sure to keep your head on straight.
Contact owner to set up a tour first. Do not trespass. The owner lives on the property and will let you take a tour and turn you loose to look around after signing a release. He also takes donations. The park opens a few times a year for cleanup, local crafters sales days, and for a small fee. You can fish in the falls (catch and release).
As to whether it rare or not the current owner may have a pile of them I known I have one in my collection. in the condition that one is in no it wouldn't be worth much.
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Not rare. I've seen many examples of tokens from this place at coin shows the last 30 years.
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Circus - Great back story, thanks!
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I've got one I found at our deer lease in Arkansas when I was a kid. It's in nice AU condition. Nice tokens, but not rare or scarce.

The "hillbilly" theme park wasn't unique to Arkansas; there were similar parks located in the Smoky Mountains and in Alabama, and later Dollywood; and even here in Texas, Six Flags over Texas originally had a combination old west/hillbilly themed area, that featured "saloons", Western-themed rides, and carnival-type shooting games; it blended 49ers gold rush era old west themes with the 1880s wild west and pre-state Texas lore. The Runaway Mine Train is the last vestige of this area that is still operational and in daily use although it's been re-branded now like everything else.

For folks from the north, the 50s-60s era of Western tv shows & movies, up through the Beverly Hillbillies and Green Acres, was very popular, and what we now call "class tourism" must have seemed like an easy sell back then, but it didn't happen.
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Dogpatch USA Amusement Park token
White metal, 28mm, 7.21gm

Obverse:
Comic strip character Li'l Abner facing right
DOGPATCH USA DOGPATCH, ARK. 72648 LI'L ABNER
© (Copyright) 1968 CAPP ENTERPRISES, INC.
Reverse:
Comic strip character Jubilation T. Cornpone riding horse and holding sword
DOGPATCH USA DOGPATCH, ARKANSAS. 72648
© (Copyright) 1968 CAPP ENTERPRISES, INC.

The Dogpatch USA amusement park opened in 1968 and closed in 1993. The park was located near a town called Marble Falls in Arkansas. The park was based on the American "Li'l Abner" comic strip and it's characters.

"Li'l Abner" was written by Al Capp and ran from 1934 to 1977, appearing in many newspapers. It was about a clan of hillbillies living in the mountain village of Dogpatch, Arkansas, and was the basis for several films and television shows. Al Capp owned part of Dogpatch USA.

A statue of the (fictional) local hero Confederate General Jubilation T. Cornpone was located at the park. Supposedly Gen. Cornpone was so incompetent that Union soldiers paid for the statue.


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A Dogpatch Arcade Token won't set anyone back too much, but if somebody has a bundle of spare cash, the former Dogpatch is for sale, and apparently has been for a while.

Every now and then, I run into the tokens in shows. For some reason, people seem to think they are Disney tokens. I guess not many people remember Al Capp, 'Lil Abner, or Dogpatch. Yep, I'm officially old.
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