Dreamland (Amusement Park)

Dreamland was an ambitious amusement park at Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York City from 1904 to 1911.
  by a Tammany Hall-connected businessman, William H. Reynolds, Dreamland was supposed to be a (relatively) high-class entertainment, with elegant architecture, pristine white towers and some educational exhibits along with the rides and thrills. It was reputed to have one million electric light bulbs illuminating and outlining its buildings, quite a novelty at the time. 
In its last season, it gave way to gaudiness in an attempt to attract more business, but the season had barely begun when the park swiftly burned to the ground on May 27, 1911. Fires were no stranger to Coney Island, but unlike other parks that were rebuilt, some multiple times, Dreamland was abandoned. Dreamland was located between Surf Avenue and the Atlantic Ocean at West 8th Street opposite Culver Depot, then-terminal of the Culver Line and Brighton Beach Line. The site is now the location of the New York Aquarium.

External link

Dreamland at amusement-parks.com

 

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