Tuesday, June 1, 2010

things that are going up on my wall: Luna Park

I searched for the name "Luna Park" after seeing an image of it in a movie today of Paris in 1920.  Sadly the Paris amusement park is now defunct but there are still many around the world. This picture is from the one in Coney Island.
Wikipedia:
Luna Park is a name shared by dozens of currently operating and defunct amusement parks that have opened on every continent except Antarctica since 1903. The first to use the name was the second major amusement park at Coney Island, designed by Charles I.D. Looff, who subsequently designed Seattle, Washington's Luna Park, which opened in 1907. The spaceship in the Pan-American Exposition ride "A Trip to the Moon" gave its name to these parks... and to dozens that followed over the next century.

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