All you have to do is say the words "Idora Park" and thousands of people around the Valley are instantly transported back in time. 

More than 30 years after it closed, one couple in Canfield is still searching high and low to bring those memories back to life with the Idora Park Experience museum.

For the last two decades, Jim and Toni Amey have been hunting for artifacts from Idora Park; an obsession that first started when the two took a walk through the grounds 23 years ago.

"I knew it had burned, but it really hit me when I walked through there in 1993," said Idora Park Experience owner Jim Amey.

"It was that visit that he realized it's never coming back," said Jim's wife, Toni. "It's not something that one day somebody's going to buy and reopen. It's gone."

That's where the Idora Park Experience started to become a reality. What followed was an endless journey to find bits and pieces of the past, traveling across the country and slowly bringing them all back to life.

"We've been to Miami, 2300 mile trip just to go there, pick up something and come back. We've been to Wisconsin, Minnesota, we've been to New Jersey. We've been to so many states, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Indiana," said Jim.

One of the new additions to the museum this year is a boat from the old Lost River ride. It looks brand new now, but it certainly did not look like that when they first picked it up. It serves as a perfect example of the labor of love for Jim and Toni, in terms of the restoration it takes to put these items on display.

"It was literally splinters on a trailer bed," said Toni. "You could see the frame, the frame was in good shape, but everything on the bottom was destroyed. Jim says to me, 'We're gonna restore this.'"

That's what he's spent the last nine months or so doing, along with a Tilt-a-Whirl car and a handful of other big projects, before the doors open again later this month.  But when people start walking in, that's when they say it's all worth it.

"When you're here and the people, they see things and it triggers memories that they'd forgotten, it's fascinating," said Jim.

"It's not just our collection; it's really Youngstown's collection. It's the Mahoning Valley's collection," said Toni. "We'll never make money on this, but you talk about kind of nourishing your soul, it does that for sure."

Nourishing the soul of the whole Valley - a part of Youngstown history that lives on, thanks to two people willing to make it happen.

The museum will open its doors later this month, from 10am-5pm on Saturday, June 25th, and from 12pm-5pm on Sunday, June 26th. You can check out theidoraparkexperience.com for more information.