Los Angeles Times

Balboa Fun Zone sold to Costa Mesa real estate firm

The Balboa Fun Zone is now under new ownership. Discovery Cube, a nonprofit that oversees the children’s museum and science centers in Santa Ana and Sylmar, announced Tuesday that it intended to sell ...
Orange County Register

Balboa Fun Zone celebrates 75 years

NEWPORT BEACH – What used to be an old boatyard was transformed 75 years ago into a small amusement park and family attraction, with a new name and a new purpose – the Balboa Fun Zone. Families will ...
Orange County Register

Arcade is reborn at the Balboa Fun Zone with more than just kids in mind

Step into the new Balboa Fun Zone Arcade on the Balboa Peninsula, and you may feel like you’re in a game of Minecraft or Space Invaders. That’s because the tile floor’s pattern duplicates the designs ...
Los Angeles Times

Letters to the Editor: 70 years of Fun Zone memories are going the way of Skee-Ball

Some things you just know will be here forever, then, wham bam, the rug, or in this situation the Bay Arcade in Balboa’s Fun Zone, has been given the old heave-ho after 70 years of providing fun for ...