PINKPIGFLYER: The Pink Pig Monorail on Roof of Rich's Department Store

Saturday, April 23, 2011

The Pink Pig Monorail on Roof of Rich's Department Store

Above photos color tinted by © D.G.WHITEFIELD
Note: Pink Pig Twins name on photo above, they added a second one because of the demand to ride it.

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This photo shows the Pink Pig monorail flying high in Atlanta when it was located on the roof of Rich's downtown department store in the 1960s. Priscilla and Percival Pig now live at the Atlanta History Center. AJC file photo
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This You Tube video by Brandon Benefield

2 comments:

TamAugust 20, 2011 at 6:39 AM
Oh, that video brings back such memories! Thank you for posting it!
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UnknownDecember 12, 2012 at 7:50 PM
I love this blog. I used one of your pictures over at middleclassmodern.blogspot.com. Hope that's okay. I linked and credited!
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THE PINK PIG FLYER

The Pink Pig was an amusement park ride of sorts that was a miniature suspended monorail sized for children. Adults would be hard-pressed to fit inside the enclosed cars that the children sat in as the ride operated. The original ride "flew" from the ceiling of the toy department. The pig was then moved outside the building to a rooftop Christmas village that surrounded the Great Tree. The Pink Pig started outside under the tree, returned indoors to fly over the toy department before returning to its starting point. The original Pink Pig was named Priscilla. A second pig, named Percival was later added to meet the high demand to ride the pig. After completing their journey, riders received a sticker that said "I rode the Pink Pig".

The ride moved to the Festival of Trees in the 1990s, and resided at the Atlanta History Center. The ride was brought back to Rich's in 2004 when it reappeared at the Rich's at Lenox Square mall, the new location for the Great Tree. The new version of the Pink Pig is a conventional train ride with a miniature pink pig locomotive pulling a set of pink child-sized passenger cars at ground level, instead of the original suspended monorail design. It has been speculated that the original monorail was retired because it could not be maintained as a viable and safe children's ride.
From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_Pig