YOUNGSTOWN — Heather DeLucia has few memories of Idora Park, but that didn’t stop her from adding what promises to be a few sweet ones of her own.

“I was there when I was little, little – when I was a kid,” DeLucia, of Youngstown, recalled. “My uncle worked for a steel mill, and I went there when I was 2 or 3 to a (company) picnic.”

Decades later, DeLucia found herself creating what likely will be sweet, enduring and pleasing memories of the iconic amusement park via baking peanut butter and chocolate cookies shaped like tickets, the likes of which were used to enter the South Side park.

The cookies were among those that offered plenty of delight to those who attended the Mahoning Valley Historical Society’s annual Cookie Tables and Cocktails fundraiser dinner Saturday evening at the Assumption Social Hall, 356 S. Belle Vista Ave., on the South Side.

More than 400 community leaders, elected officials and others attended the four-hour fundraiser, with an Idora Park theme, to benefit the MVHS, creating a quick sellout. Eighty-eight bakers brought more than 10,000 cookies of numerous flavors, sizes and shapes, H. William Lawson, the MVHS’ executive director, said.

The event was expected to generate more than $20,000 — money that will go toward programs at the Tyler History Center and the Arms Family Museum, as well as the former IBM building on East Federal Street in downtown Youngstown that the MVHS bought for about $1.9 million. That site is primarily for storage and displays, and will eventually be home to the Idora Park Experience exhibits, Lawson noted.

The origin of DeLucia’s cookies, which taste like traditional buckeyes, was online research regarding how an Idora Park entrance ticket looked, then sending it to a 3D printing specialist in Cleveland who printed templates of what she found before she used them to bake the cookies, DeLucia said.

For her efforts, DeLucia won a Best Idora ribbon. She also found additional room around her neck to wear a third-place ribbon she won in the professional division.

“I think it’s really cool that we had it in our backyard at one time,” she said about Idora Park, which operated from 1899 until it closed at the end of the 1984 season after a devastating fire the previous April.

A sampling of cookie varieties that sat on several large connected tables included buckeyes, apple-the-spice balls, matcha white chocolate chip, lime shortbread, depression cookies, caramel apple fudge, chocolate chip scramblers, Italian twists and cotton candy fudge.

Pure fudge also was in greater abundance on one of the cookie tables, courtesy of Angela Davis of New Castle, Pa., who has a business called Fudge Jubilee and brought her homemade variety of the sweet treat.

Davis undoubtedly delights many on the other side of the Pennsylvania-Ohio border, because she sells her product at several area events such as Austintown school functions, Mahoning County craft shows and other gatherings in Columbiana County. In addition, Davis has entered her brand of fudge at the Canfield Fair, for which she’s amassed 15 first- and second-place ribbons.

Many of the hundreds of attendees at Saturday’s Cookie Tables and Cocktails gathering also took journeys down memory lane, as they watched on large screens and monitors archived media footage of a day in summer 1977 at Idora Park, which is in the MVHS’ possession.

The footage shows many children enwrapped in jubilation as they enjoy a sunny, carefree summer day along the midway and on a variety of memorable rides that included the Jackrabbit and Wildcat roller coasters, as well as the Helter-Skelter, Flying Cages, Tilt-a-Whirl, Lost River and Whacky Shack.

Also shown were those dancing in the iconic ballroom to Larry Walk’s Happy Polka Band, along with a performance from the popular 1970s Scottish pop group the Bay City Rollers, whose hits included “You Made Me Believe in Magic,” “Shang-a-Lang,” “Saturday Night” and “I Only Want to be With You.”