George B. Quatman bought the west side of Sandy Beach Amusement Park in 1957 and the remainder on the east side in 1962, renovating the Stardust Ballroom, Old Vienna Gardens, and Plaza Hotel into the San Juan Amusement Park, where alcohol and rock and roll were not allowed. He named the park after Saint John, whom he regarded as the protector of the Virgin Mary, dedicated it to Saint John to protect every woman who came into the park, and ran it on a principle of uplifting the morals of teenagers. He installed an attraction of life-sized statues of the Last Super, gave the park’s profits to orphans, convents, and other charitable causes, and, inspired by his devotion to the Virgin Mary, built what was then the world’s largest statue of the Blessed Virgin. The Our Lady of Fatima Monument, also called Our Lady of the Lake, was erected in the summer of 1964 after six years of planning and design by the Lima architectural firm of Armstrong and Brown, unveiled to the public on June 28, 1964, and formally dedicated on August 30, 1964. The 9-foot-6 statue, a shrine to the apparitions of the Virgin Mary in Fatima, Portugal, which occurred six times from May to October 1917, overlooks Indian Lake from Saint Mary’s Point and was dedicated to Saint Mary of the Woods Catholic Church of Russels Point. Cast of fiberglass in Miami, Florida, and set atop a concrete pedestal, it originally featured a colored water display at its base, music lasting 7 1/2 minutes at 15-minute intervals, and a full 360-degree rotation, while visitors could approach it on a miniature passenger train that circled the park and grounds. Quatman died at age 74 on September 25, 1964, less than a month after the statue’s formal dedication, and each year on August 15 a Catholic mass is held at the base of the statue and attended by residents from across that part of Ohio.