Welcome aboard Pink Monterail. I'm Shelly Via Deli, your pilot, and right next to me is my co-pilot Noah

via Deliad.

Hi everybody.

The modern theme park didn't jump fully formed out of the head of Walt Disney.

It actually goes back thousands of years.

During the series we're going to talk about the different routes of the American

theme park and how it came to be. Today we're going to talk about the history of theme parks manufacturing the magic.

We're going to start out with a talk about fairs, trade fairs, country fairs.

It's one of the roots of the American theme part.

You're going to go back as far as 5,000 BC when trade starts along the silk route,

going from China all the way down to Italy to Rome.

Traders would go from town to town, selling their wares, picking up things,

and it was more of a relay system than it was a long trading route.

So you had all these short routes

nucks to each other,

and then in the 1800,

someone decided to call it all as one thing the Silk Road.

So it wasn't as organized sort of as everybody thinks when they're going to school

learning the history that it was some sort of well thought out route.

It was just a bunch of tiny little routes that were

somehow connected. Right you went you know three or four towns down and

traded your wares and someone had been trading with someone else from a few towns up and they had a different kind of

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