That's what I recall. I worked there in the mid '80s when the place was hopping and, if on day shift, would often hang around for an evening concert if I fancied the playbill. Families during the day for the play area, restaurants, matinee concerts, Cinesphere, etc. or just enjoying the grass, breeze and shade. Evenings were typically young folks for a concert, restaurants/bars, Cinesphere, or enjoying the grass, breeze and shape in a darker form (!). If the Argos were playing across the bridge, it got really hopping after the game (win or lose - it didn't seem to matter). I even went to a wedding in one of the pods.
It's always going to be a challenge to create a venue that is active in all seasons unless they put a dome over the whole thing. Any structure that is enclosed will eat up real estate and raise the cost that is going to have to be recovered; the government has already decreed that it needs to run without operation subsidies and if the private section operates it or part of it, they will expect a return.
I think it's a bad of a sad statement that everything these days has to be a theme park.
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