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Luna Park, Cleveland

Coordinates:41°29′23″N81°36′42″W / 41.48972°N 81.61167°W /41.48972; -81.61167
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Former amusement park in Cleveland, Ohio
For other amusement parks known by the same name, seeLuna Park.
Post card (~1910) picture of the main entrance of Luna Park, Cleveland. A victim of the Great Depression, the park closed its gates in 1929.
Post card (~1910) picture of the main entrance ofLuna Park, Cleveland. A victim of theGreat Depression, the park closed its gates in 1929.
View of Luna Park, Cleveland's shoot-the-chutes ride, ca. 1910. Note the sign for the "10¢ Infant Incubators" in the background.
View ofLuna Park, Cleveland'sshoot-the-chutes ride,ca. 1910. Note the sign for the "10¢ Infant Incubators" in the background.

Luna Park was atrolley park (a type ofamusement park) inCleveland,Ohio, from 1905[1] to 1929.[2]

Specifications

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Constructed byFrederick Ingersoll, the park occupied a hilly 35-acre (140,000 m2) site bounded by Woodland Avenue, Woodhill, Mt. Carmel (originally Ingersoll Road), and East 110th Street and includedroller coasters,carousels, afun house, aFerris wheel, aroller rink, ashoot-the-chutes ride, aconcert shell, adance hall,bumper cars, abaseball field, and a 20,000-seat[3]stadium (unofficially called "Luna Bowl", destroyed by fire in August, 1929Clipped From The Akron Beacon Journal) in whichAmerican football was played.[1]

On May 18, 1905, Cleveland's Luna Park became the second Ingersoll park of that name (out of 44)[1][4] to have opened before his death in 1927, and the second amusement park (afterLuna Park, Pittsburgh, which opened weeks earlier) to be covered with electrical lighting.[4]

History

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The monetary demands of upgrading and maintaining his embryonic chain of amusement parks forced Ingersoll, the original owner of Cleveland's Luna Park, to declare bankruptcy in 1908;[5] Ingersoll was forced to sell his Cleveland park[1][6] to Matthew Bramley, an original investor in (and, later, owner of) Ingersoll's Luna Park Amusement Company who built the Cleveland Trinidad Paving Company into the largestpaving company in the world.[7] Bramley added rides to Luna Park as its popularity as atrolley park grew, in part because beer was sold on the park grounds.[1]

After the passage of theEighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution and the beginning ofProhibition (1920), a primary source of revenue was removed as the park's popularity waned. Bramley officially closed the gates to Luna Park in 1929 for the final time as theGreat Depression took hold in the United States. The park was beset with incidences ofarson, including the fire that destroyed the football stadium, and most of the rides were dismantled and moved to other amusement parks in the early 1930s.[8][9] In June 1939, construction crews broke ground for a new housing development project to be built on the grounds where Luna Park once stood.[10] Woodhill Homes was completed on November 1, 1940, making it one of the nation's first public housing projects.[10]

Luna Bowl tenants

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The stadium at Luna Park TheCleveland Panthers of thefirst American Football League and theCleveland Bulldogs of theNational Football League played their home games inLuna Bowl,[3] and (after the dismantling of the amusement rides had begun) theFederal LeagueCleveland Green Sox,[11] Luna Bowl was the home toNegro league baseball teamsCleveland Tigers (1928)Cleveland Stars (1932),Cleveland Giants (1933), andCleveland Red Sox (1934).[12]

Collegiately,Case School of Applied Science defeatedWestern Reserve University 7–6 on November 19, 1927, during their annual rivalry football game, played only once at Luna Park.[13] The winning touchdown was scored by Case'sFrank Herzegh.


Woodland Rink

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The roller rink was added to Luna Park when the park was sold to Matthew Bramley in 1910.[1] The roller rink was known as the Woodland Rink.[14] On December 12, 1938, the last vestige of the park, the skating rink, was destroyed by fire.[1]

References

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  1. ^abcdefg"Luna Park".The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History. Case Western Reserve University. March 27, 1998. RetrievedAugust 24, 2016.
  2. ^"History of the West Park Neighborhoods".WestParkHistory.com.Archived from the original on August 7, 2006. RetrievedAugust 24, 2016.
  3. ^abGreenberg, Murray (2008),Passing Game: Benny Friedman and the Transformation of Football, PublicAffairs,ISBN 978-1-58648-477-4
  4. ^ab"Luna Park's luminary: Entrepreneur/roller coaster designer deserves his due".Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. September 1, 2008.
  5. ^Futrell, Jim (2002),Amusement Parks of Pennsylvania, Flagpole Books,ISBN 0-8117-2671-1
  6. ^Timeline: A Publication of the Ohio Historical Society, Ohio Historical Society, 2005.
  7. ^"Matthew Frederick Bramley".Encyclopedia of Cleveland History. Case Western Reserve University. July 14, 1997. RetrievedAugust 24, 2016.
  8. ^Historical, Cleveland."Luna Park - A Sliver of Coney Island in Cleveland".Cleveland Historical. Retrieved2023-10-12.
  9. ^"LUNA PARK | Encyclopedia of Cleveland History | Case Western Reserve University".case.edu. 2021-11-07. Retrieved2023-10-12.
  10. ^abGlanville, Justin."The Past and Future of Cleveland's Woodhill Homes".indepth.ideastream.org. Retrieved2023-10-02.
  11. ^"1913 Cleveland Green Sox minor league baseball Roster on StatsCrew.com".www.statscrew.com.
  12. ^"Luna Park - Cleveland".RetroSeasons. Retrieved2023-10-04.
  13. ^"Case Football 1927/28 Season Record".Case.edu.Case Western Reserve University. RetrievedAugust 24, 2016.
  14. ^"Woodland Rink Luna Park, Cleveland, OH".RINK HISTORY. Retrieved2023-10-12.

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