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Remember When...Milwaukeeans rode the roller coaster at Pabst Park?
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| Title | Remember When...Milwaukeeans rode the roller coaster at Pabst Park? |
| Description | In the early 1900s, amusement park thrills could be found between 3rd and 5th Sts. south of Burleigh. Capt. Fred Pabst bought the 8-acre parcel from the Milwaukee Shooting Club, which had used it as a range at the turn of the century. He renamed it Pabst Park. The enterprising Pabst wanted to create a popular amusement park, so he included this 15, 000-foot-long, figure-8 roller coaster. The park also had a fun house, midway, dance hall and Wild West shows. Streetcars and streetlights may have been the practical electric inventions Milwaukeeans marveled at back then, but the young and young at heart were no doubt equally grateful for roller coasters. Pabst Park eventually became city, then county property and is now - without any vestiges of its amusement park past - called Garfield Park. Photograph courtesy of Wisconsin Electric Co.; information from the Milwaukee Public Library local history collection. |
| Library of Congress Subject Headings | Pabst Park (Milwaukee, Wis.); Garfield Park (Milwaukee, Wis.); Amusement parks -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Roller coasters -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee |
| Photographer or Studio | J. Brown, Photo. |
| Publisher | Milwaukee Public Library |
| Contributor | Wisconsin Electric Co. |
| Date Original | 190? |
| Source | Milwaukee Journal |
| Newspaper Publication Date | 1980-06-28 |
| Date Copyrighted | 2005 |
| Type | Image |
| Has Format | Photograph |
| Relation | RW 1725 |
| Collection | Remember When, F. P. Zeidler Humanities Room, Milwaukee Public Library
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| Rights | All rights reserved © Milwaukee Public Library |
| Order form | http://www.mpl.org/coldfusion/email_digital_rw.cfm |
| Date created | 2008-11-12 |
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