Examples of amusement park in the following topics:
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- During the Gilded Age, free time and disposable income were spent on new forms of leisure such as amusement parks, burlesque shows, dime museums, and vaudeville shows.
- By the early 1900s, hundreds of amusement parks were operating in the United States and Canada.
- These amusement parks, with names such as "Coney Island," "White City," "Luna Park," and "Dreamland," often were based on nationally known parks or world's fairs.
- The American Gilded Age was, in fact, the Golden Age of amusement parks that reigned until the late 1920s.
- Although the development of the automobile provided people with more options for satisfying their need for entertainment, after the war, amusement parks continued to be successful.
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- The railroad had 3,000 riders its first week (for amusement instead of for commuting).
- Several others were built for amusement in Atlantic City, Ocean City, and Gloucester City, New Jersey (the first two in 1893 and last in 1894).
- Olmsted was famous for codesigning many well-known urban parks with his senior partner, Calvert Vaux, including Prospect Park and Central Park in New York City, as well as Elm Park (Worcester, Massachusetts), which is considered by many to be the first municipal park in America.
- Olmsted not only created numerous city parks around the country, but he also conceived of entire systems of parks and interconnecting parkways to connect certain cities to green spaces.
- The state appointed a Central Park Commission to oversee the development of the park, and in 1857, the commission held a landscape design contest.
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- However, Parks was not the first person to do so.
- The decision to choose Parks and not Colvin as the symbol of the boycott was political.
- Parks vowed never again to ride a bus driven by Blake.
- At that moment, Parks realized that she was again on a bus driven by Blake.
- Rosa Parks being fingerprinted by Deputy Sheriff D.H.
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- New York's Central Park was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux.
- So, Central Park was created as a place for people to get away and relax.
- In the park, people could ice skate during the winter and bicycle during the summer.
- It was meant to be a meeting place for all citizens; however, the richest lived near the park, and the poor far from it.
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- Notable Hoovervilles were in Central Park and Riverside Park in New York City, where scores of homeless families camped out.
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- By the time he left office in 1908, Roosevelt set aside more federal land, national parks, and nature preserves than all of his predecessors combined.
- Forest Service, oversaw the creation of five National Parks, and signed the 1906 Antiquities Act, which established 18 new U.S. national monuments.
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- This led to the creation of a variety of parlor games, a group game played indoors in a parlor, to allow these gentlemen and ladies to amuse themselves at small parties.
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- The World's Columbian Exposition was the first world's fair with an area for amusements that was strictly separated from the exhibition halls.
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- By the time he left office in 1908, Roosevelt had set aside more federal land, national parks, and nature preserves than all of his predecessors combined.
- Roosevelt established the United States Forest Service, signed into law the creation of five National Parks, and signed the 1906 Antiquities Act, under which he proclaimed 18 new U.S.
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- Progressives across the country influenced municipal governments of large urban cities to build numerous parks, as it was believed that leisure time for children and families could be spent in a healthy, wholesome environment, thereby fostering good morals and citizenship.
- Johnson advanced a program of lower streetcar fares, public baths, milk and meat inspection standards, and an expanded park system.