Pink Monorail Manufacturing the Magic Ep 8: Trolley Parks & Pleasure Gardens

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🗓️ 10 August 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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In the eighth installment of this educational series, Shelly & Noe Valladolid talk about how savvy rail & beer companies took advantage of trolley downtime to create new entertainment destinations at the end of the line. Over the course of this episode, listeners will learn about: How Tivoli Gardens directly influenced the design of Disneyland A Ferris wheel from 1897 that is still operational today Early animatronics in Jenny’s Whim How the rise of the automobile signaled the death knell for trolley parks Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome aboard Pink Monterale.
0:07.0	I'm your pilot, Michelle Vio Doleid, and next to me is my co-pilot Noah Vio Doleid.
0:11.6	Our series right now is called Manufacturing the Magic,
0:15.0	A History of the American Theme Park.
0:17.0	We've talked about World's Fairs when Trade Fairs.
0:20.0	And now we're going to talk about pleasure gardens and trolley parks.
0:24.0	What Disney stated that he got the idea for many of the things he put into Disneyland from his visits to Tavoli Gardens in Copenhagen, home of the Little Mermaid.
0:38.5	It bills itself as the world's second oldest amusement park.
0:42.7	Bakken, in Campenburg, Denmark, which opened in 1593 as a pleasure garden with fireworks,
0:49.0	live entertainment, dancing, games, anditive Rides was first.
0:53.7	The translation of Backen's full name is Animal Parks Hill.
0:57.6	Tifley Gardens opened in 1843.
1:00.7	You could find more about it on Glenwood caverns.com.
1:04.2	Presently has 31 attractions including A Rutchen-Banen coaster from 1914.
1:11.0	Tivoli Gardens boasts 30 rides, thousands of colorful flowers, spectacular
1:16.3	concerts, ballet and theater performances, and more than 30 restaurants.
1:21.0	You can find out more on Tivoli. D.K.
1:25.0	George Carson traveled around the world and fell in left with the pleasure gardens that he found in Europe
1:34.8	so he got the permission of the king of Denmark to open Tivoli gardens.
1:39.6	They were so exotic and beautiful that Hans Christian Anderson claimed it inspired his story, The Nightingale.
1:45.8	Do you know that one?
1:46.8	Is that the one with the little birds that freeze in the statue?
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