Abandoned Places - Amusement Parks (a special episode for Caleb, Jacob, and Isaac Abbott)

Real Cool History for Kids

Angela O'Dell

Worldhistory, Kids & Family, Stories For Kids, Kids, Education, Americanhistory, History

4.3 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2023

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Episode #111: Abandoned Places - Amusement Parks (a special episode for Caleb, Jacob, and Isaac Abbott.)

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0:00.0	This is Angela Odell and you are listening to real cool history for kids.
0:15.1	A podcast show featuring history told from a distinctly biblical world view perspective.
0:21.7	Welcome to an adventure.
0:29.8	Welcome to episode 111 of Real Cool History for Kids.
0:36.9	This episode is for Caleb, Jacob and Isaac Abbott, who asked me to create an episode about
0:45.5	abandoned amusement parks.
0:48.8	Well guys, here's your special episode.
0:56.2	I mean, who doesn't like to spend a warm summer day walking around in an amusement park,
1:06.0	eating funnel cakes and drinking ice cold soda pop and getting really dizzy on the
1:13.0	spinny, whirly rides?
1:15.1	Amusement parks have been a magnet for families all over the country for decades.
1:23.0	You know, maybe that would be a good place for me to start.
1:29.6	A short history of amusement parks becoming a thing.
1:33.8	Well, if you think back through history, back before the industrial advances made in the
1:41.1	1800s, people did not have the time, the energy or the money to spend on this type of entertainment,
1:49.9	even if it had existed.
1:52.5	More advances in industries that provided machines and gadgets that make our lives easier.
2:01.4	People spent most of their time working really hard just to stay alive and to have some
2:09.0	quality of life.
2:11.2	With the invention of things like electricity inside of homes and running water and flushing
2:16.5	toilets, lives got a lot easier.
2:20.6	Instead of having to pump water at a well to bring inside the house and heat on the
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