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USA Antique or Vintage Postcard: RPPC Real Photo postcard, Color Chrome, or Printed Photo image collectible postcard. If ephemera and not an RPPC card, it is something that would be of interest to Postcard Collectors and History Buffs of all types. See the complete description below.

...AMUSEMENT Kansas City MO THE ELECTRIC PARK known as THE MIDWEST CONEY ISLAND!...

Electric Park was the name shared by two amusement parks in Kansas City, Missouri, that were constructed by Joseph Heim (then president of the Heim Brothers Brewery) and his brothers Michael and Ferdinand Jr. and run by them. The first was built next to the Heim Beer brewery in 1899; the second, a larger one, was built and opened to the public in 1907 and remained in operation until the end of the 1925 season. Much of the second Electric Park in Kansas City burned to the ground in 1925. Souvenirs from the park touted it as "Kansas City's Coney Island," which it matched by having 100,000 light bulbs adorn its buildings.

Open from 1899 to 1906; the first Electric Park proved to be an immediate success as one of the world's first full-time amusement parks. Featuring a Shoot-the-Chutes ride (called the Mystic Chute), the park also had a beer garden with beer piped directly from the brewery next door. Eventually, the carefully groomed grounds were too small to sustain the park's popularity; at the end of the 1906 season, some of the rides were dismantled and moved to a new location to the south.

The second Kansas City Electric Park, this time at 46th Street and the Paseo, opened 19 May 1907. Like the first one, it was a trolley park (this time served by the Troost Avenue, Woodland Avenue, and Rockhill lines of the Metropolitan Street Railway Company),[5] but the successor was one of the largest (if not the largest) ever to be called Electric Park. It had "band concerts, vaudeville, Electric Fountain, ballroom, natatorium, German village, alligator farm, chutes, Dips Coaster, Norton slide, penny parlors, novelty stand, Japanese rolling ball, scenic railway, pool room, a Hale's Tour of the World, Electric Studio, boat tours, old mill, a Temple of Mirth, Flying Lady, Double Whirl, Circle Swing, soda fountain and ice cream shops, knife rack, doll rack, shooting gallery, air gun gallery, giant teeter, boating, outdoor swimming, carousel, clubhouse cafe, Casino 5 cent theater, fortune telling and palmistry, covered promenade and horseless buggy garage." ...

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