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ACROSS THE MITTEN - MID-MICHIGAN
Looking Back at Michigan’s Amusement Parks
Vintage Views
M. Christine Byron
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Thomas R. Wilson
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May 31, 2019
From early amusement parks such as the Chutes Park in Chicago (1884) and Coney Island in New York (1885), came the craze that sprouted almost 2,000 small amusement parks around the country by 1920.
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