Keywords: Amusement rides
Item 104815
NFBPWC delegates ride the "Caterpillar" at Old Orchard Beach, 1925
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: 1925-07-18 Location: Old Orchard Beach Media: glass negative
Item 52177
Amusement Park wreckage, Old Orchard, 1948
Contributed by: Dyer Library/Saco Museum Date: 1948-10-04 Location: Old Orchard Beach Media: Photographic print
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Fair Season: Crops, Livestock, and Entertainment
Agricultural fairs, intended to promote new techniques and better farming methods, have been held since the early 19th century. Before long, entertainments were added to the educational focus of the early fairs.
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Success at riding a bike mirrored success in life. Bicycling could bring families together. Bicycling was good for one's health. Bicycling was fun. Bicycles could go fast. Such were some of the arguments made to induce many thousands of people around Maine and the nation to take up the new pastime at the end of the nineteenth century.
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Highlighting Historical Hampden - Riverside Park
"Riverside Park was not unlike other amusement parks and resorts of the period. Landscape and civil engineer Frank Blaisdell drew up the plans for the…"
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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Franklin County Agricultural Fair
"Amusement rides have been added and thousands of people from Franklin County attend each year. Back to Farmington's History of Agriculture"
