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White City (sometimes listed as White City Amusement Park in print advertisements) was a recreational area located in the Greater Grand Crossing and Woodlawn community areas on the south side of Chicago from 1905 until the 1950s. [1] At the time of its opening, on May 26, 1905, it was claimed to be the largest park of its type in the United ...
White City of the World's Columbian Exposition (1893). The enormously successful 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago attracted 26 million visitors and featured a section that is now commonly considered the first amusement park: a midway (the mile-long Midway Plaisance), the world's first Ferris wheel (constructed by George Washington Gale Ferris Jr.), a forerunner of the modern roller ...
Most likely, though, the park was named for the famous White City at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair. " White City " was a popular name for amusement parks of the time, being borne by parks in Springfield (Missouri), Atlanta, Chicago , Cleveland, Indianapolis , New Haven, New Orleans , Syracuse (New York), London, Sydney, Melbourne, and other ...
It was followed a “White City” amusement park on the lake’s shore, which stood between 1905 and 1916. “They had roller coasters and merry-go-rounds and ice cream stores and dance halls.
Amusements were built by other businessmen, and soon the park had a zoo, a museum and a dance hall. Promoters organized cock fights, horse races and prize fights. [2] In 1903 carnival rides were added and the area was officially opened as an amusement park called the White City with an entrance at the corner of Savin Avenue and Thomas Street.
White City was the first Indianapolis amusement park to open that year, and its management took advantage by advertising "all roads lead to White City" in the week before the opening of Wonderland. [13] White City (and Riverside) had live acts presenting a Wild West theme that was becoming a national rage at that time. On April 19, 1907, White ...
White City (amusement parks) Lakeside Amusement Park or White City, Denver, Colorado; White City (Chicago), a recreational park in Illinois, 1905–1946; The White City, an "ideal city" constructed for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois; White City (Indianapolis), an amusement in Indiana, 1906–1908
White City. Most of the buildings of the fair were designed in the neoclassical architecture style. The area at the Court of Honor was known as The White City. Façades were made not of stone, but of a mixture of plaster, cement, and jute fiber called staff, which was painted white, giving the buildings their "gleam". Architecture critics ...