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Building on the array of entertainment options offered by the traveling circus, the typical amusement park featured a midway full of games, sideshows, and exhibits; mechanical rides and indoor spaces for dancing, watching performances, and eating.
Crystal City was the home of the original ZINGO roller coaster. Decades later, Bell’s Amusement Park at the Tulsa Fairgrounds would build a new wooden roller coaster and give it the same name. There was a miniature railway complete with station, built from native rock from Marble City, Oklahoma.
By 1921 the park was opened for business and had a dance hall, "Merry Widow" swing, Parker Merry-go-Round, a "Captive Air Plane" ride, a Circle Wave swing, boating, and swimming, a fun house, and the only miniature train in Oklahoma. They also contracted for an ornamental fence, and the entrance with arches.
TulsaGal has photos of Crystal City Amusement Park from the late 1920s that show many of these features. The image above, showing Hiram's Barn, a tall tower (possibly over the ticket offices), and part of the Zingo roller coaster, is from that entry.
Lakeview Amusement Park saved some of the Crystal City rides and opened near Mohawk Zoo. Another distraction for Tulsans was the Sand Springs Amusement Park, at the end of the Sand Springs Railway line at nearby Sand Springs, beginning in 1911 and lasting until the mid-1930s.
Crystal City Amusement Park Rink or before that, known as Electric Amusement Park Rink at the Crystal City Amusement Park, was on 4200 Southwest Boulevard, Tulsa, Oklahoma. Technically, it was on Sapulpa Road at the time before the renaming of the road into Southwest Boulevard.
Fun and games return to Crystal City this weekend, with the Route 66 Carnival. It opened Thursday at the Crystal City Shopping Center on Southwest Blvd.
A thrill from Tulsa's past is back until Saturday, as the Crystal City carnival is reborn along Route 66. The carnival is held annually at the site where the old Crystal City...
Lakeview Amusement Park saved some of the Crystal City rides and opened near Mohawk Zoo. In 1958, a group of investors financed construction of Crystal City Shopping Center. Before Town West Shopping Center was constructed in the 1980's, Crystal City was the shopping center for West Tulsa.
Crystal City Shopping Center, Tulsa, Oklahoma. 3,235 likes · 1 talking about this · 1,216 were here. One of Tulsa's oldest, iconic landmarks, Crystal City was originally the site of a 1920's amusement