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🗓️ 3 December 2019
⏱️ 35 minutes
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0:00.0 | This is 99% invisible. |
0:02.1 | I'm Roman Mars. |
0:04.8 | There's a big old apartment building in South Minneapolis |
0:08.1 | that looks out of place. |
0:09.8 | It's in a residential neighborhood |
0:11.3 | with small bungalows and some auto body shops. |
0:14.7 | But this apartment building fills up an entire corner lot. |
0:18.3 | I've bypassed this place hundreds of times and it always struck me as kind of weird. That's reporter, Katie Thornton. |
0:24.0 | I started digging through old newspapers and I found out why it's there. |
0:28.0 | That building is the last remnant of an early 1900's amusement park. |
0:32.0 | It was called Wonderland. A friend of a friend named |
0:35.3 | Hillary lives there now and she gave me a tour. We are at my apartment building. |
0:40.2 | It's on the corner of 31st and 31st in South Minneapolis. |
0:47.0 | As I understand it, there was an amusement park here. |
0:51.0 | The park had a roller coaster in a dance hall and a log flume, but the biggest attraction was something much stranger. |
0:59.8 | A bizarre sideshow that used to fill the apartment complex where Hillary lives now. |
1:05.2 | When she signed the lease, her landlord told her the building used to be called the |
1:09.2 | Infantarium. |
1:10.9 | What he said at the time was like they had premature babies like living in this |
1:16.9 | building and being taken care of in the building as part of the |
1:20.3 | attraction of the park. |
1:23.4 | Visitors to the Infantorium would pay 10 cents to enter a spacious room full of glass |
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