Bromley’s dad, who died in 2020, purchased the Snoopy bowl around 2009, Bromley said. A friend of a friend had the Peanuts fixtures and had been using the bowl as a pool, Bromley said. When their kids got older and stopped using it, they offered to sell it to the Bromleys.
Every time Bromley has moved the Snoopy bowl, coins from its days as a fountain fell out, he said.
Kilian Peterson, 2, played in the Camp Snoopy dog bowl, now a corn pit, at Anoka County Farms. (Greta Kaul/The Minnesota Star Tribune)
In recent years, Bromley has been filling the Snoopy bowl with corn each fall to make it into a corn pit, adding it to other activities like hayrides, a big slide and a barrel train.
Now, the kids of the kids who once enjoyed Camp Snoopy are playing in a piece of the park.
Earlier this month, Lisa Jagadeesan watched as her kids played in the big bowl she remembered from Camp Snoopy.
When Jagadeesan was growing up in a small town in North Dakota, going to any mall was a big deal. Going to Camp Snoopy, she said, was huge.