This TV advertisement for Paradise Gardens at Cattai stands as a memorial to the quirky NSW theme parks that families flocked to in the 1970s and '80s. The star attraction was the life-size fibreglass dinosaur replicas. That is, unless the whimsical Enchanted Forest of fairytale figures was more your thing. This no-frills ad aired on Network Ten in January 1982 and effectively sells the park as a summer school holiday destination where you could cool down with water slides, jungle boat rides and swimming in the Hawkesbury River. Note the likely reality of screaming kids is masked by soothing music. Paradise Gardens opened in 1976 and was operated by the Bullen family, who also ran Bullen's Animal World and the African Lion Safari ('It's scary, but nobody cares!'). It closed in the mid-1980s, and was survived (for a while anyway) by Miniland in Coonabarabran (more dinosaurs), El Caballo Blanco (dancing stallions) and Magic Kingdom (rides and slides).