Pink Monorail : Manufacturing the Magic Ep 9: The rise of American amusement parks

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🗓️ 31 August 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome aboard Pink Monterale. I'm your pilot, Michelle Vaya Deliad, and next to me is my co-pilot Noah
0:12.2	Vaya Deli. Hey everybody. This series is called and next to me is my co-pilot Noah via De lead.
0:13.0	Hey everybody.
0:14.0	This series is called Manufacturing the Magic, a history of the American theme park.
0:18.0	On this episode, we're looking at seaside piers and boardwalk amusement parks.
0:24.0	Another place for amusement parks would be found on many lakes and beaches in the USA,
0:32.0	the amusement pier.
0:33.0	Europe had their own, most notably Blackpool, which started as a seaside resort,
0:38.0	but really took off when it got electricity.
0:40.0	It's quite popular today.
0:42.0	In Atlantic City, Ocean Pier opened in 1891, Steel Pier in 1898.
0:48.0	The boardwalk had a roundabout, a precursor to the Ferris wheel, like the ups and downs but with more people in 1892.
0:55.7	It was made of wood.
0:57.1	Also in Asbury Park, New Jersey and Coney Island, they had amusement piers.
1:02.3	Amusement piers were just as popular on the West Coast as the East Coast.
1:06.0	There was Venice, Long Beach Pike, then later Pacific Ocean Park, a theme park built on the Santa Monica Pier.
1:13.2	That whole Pier is gone now, but there's a newer Pier with Pacific Park today.
1:17.0	WPG Talk Radio.com talks about Howard's Pier, which was the first amusement pier to be built over the ocean in 1882.
1:29.0	It was built on Kentucky Avenue in Atlantic City. It featured vaudeville acts and concerts. The first boardwalk was also built in Atlantic City in 1870 shortly after the Civil War.
1:40.8	It was one mile long. Now it is 4.8 miles long, the longest boardwalk
1:45.5	in America. Disney's boardwalk resort is based on the turn of the century Atlantic
1:50.4	boardwalks. It was originally going to be a theme part of Disney's Boardwalk.
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