tommysmalls
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circa 1905 they had 3 massive amusements park with attractions that make canada's wonderland look like snoozeville:
- a midget city (midgets from all over the continent)
- 24 hour lit beaches
- rollercoasters that leap frog over eachother
- barrels of love (where strangers would roll around in a barrel together)
- gigantic steeplechase horse track (operational 24 hours a day)
- largest ballroom in the world (24,000 sq ft)
- 1/2 mile pier big enough for 60,000 people
- simulated submarine ride
- simulated flight over manhattan (before invention of plane)
- canals of venice ride/model (100 years before vegas)
- fighting the flames (a regular torching and extinguiching of a building on fire)
- recreation of pompeii
...and lots, lots more. the Dreamland park could host crowds of 250,000 without congestion.
http://naid.sppsr.ucla.edu/coneyisland/articles/dreamland.htm
And the craziest thing is, there were 2 other massive theamparks besides dreamland
circa 1905 they had 3 massive amusements park with attractions that make canada's wonderland look like snoozeville:
- a midget city (midgets from all over the continent)
- 24 hour lit beaches
- rollercoasters that leap frog over eachother
- barrels of love (where strangers would roll around in a barrel together)
- gigantic steeplechase horse track (operational 24 hours a day)
- largest ballroom in the world (24,000 sq ft)
- 1/2 mile pier big enough for 60,000 people
- simulated submarine ride
- simulated flight over manhattan (before invention of plane)
- canals of venice ride/model (100 years before vegas)
- fighting the flames (a regular torching and extinguiching of a building on fire)
- recreation of pompeii
...and lots, lots more. the Dreamland park could host crowds of 250,000 without congestion.
http://naid.sppsr.ucla.edu/coneyisland/articles/dreamland.htm
And the craziest thing is, there were 2 other massive theamparks besides dreamland