Aug 4, 2019 2 min read

I know in early 1910s and 20s, i heard about 2,000 amusement parks everywhere, small ones, then the Depression came and shut down a lot, some hung in there, Hershey, Kennywood, Cedar Point, they had corporate backing, Kennwyood had trolley company. 

I think what makes people come back to them, the reason i come back to them is you know people there, you get to know employees, the era of season.We have a steel phantom car, original, and a 1926 from MAinline Park, that was another one of the parks.

A lot of times they’d pop up because of location, allentown one started as trout fishing area, they wanted something fro kids to do, grew from that. There’s normally some sort of like thing that’s there that makes 

Just about every amusement park had a dance pavilion, cedar point still has theirs, hershey’s had one, and kennywood. 

I think they were popular because they’d keep people coming back. 80s. 

I know the a lot of early amusement parks started because people went to Chicago World’s Fair, that inspired Milton Hershey, that started a first wave, they were dying out until 1950s until Disneyworld opened, then you got storybook parks, i found there’s 3 waves of amusement park, in the 1970s.

No, it’s things like that seemed to happen back then, they’d shut down and re-open, i think it adds to the thrill if, it seemed like if someone got hurt, they’d draw back.

3 built by Harry Travers in Beaver Falls, the Cyclones, the wildcat at hearsheypark is modeled after it, 

Logan Dennison, family private collection of stuff, restored soliers from kennywood train, we have a wild mouse car from white swan park.We’re working on everything.