Pink Monorail : Manufacturing the Magic Ep 9: The rise of American amusement parks
Aug 31, 2024•34 min•Ep 9•Transcript available on Metacast Episode description
In the ninth installment of this educational series, Shelly & Noe Valladolid talk about how – as the 19th Century gave way to the 20th – amusement parks as we know them today began to pop up around the country
Throughout this episode, listeners will learn about:
How Lake Compouce sprang up from a failed explosives experiment
How Disney’s Boardwalk Resort was originally supposed to feature a selection of classic theme park attractions
How a young immigrant went from sleeping under an Atlantic City pier to owning it
The precursor to Disney’s Ford Wonder Rotunda at the 1964 New York World’s Fair
West Coast amusement parks in Venice and Long Beach, California
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