Dekalb Avenue, Atlanta, Georgia, 2005
Vale of Amusements: Modernity, Technology, and Atlanta’s Ponce de Leon Park, 1870–1920
Introduction: Shooting the Chutes at Early American Amusement Parks Lakewood Park’s Shoot-the-Chutes, Atlanta, Georgia, ca. 1895. “The Shoot-the-Chutes ride at Lakewood Park was originally at the Atlanta International Cotton States Exposition in 1895. The popular attraction was purchased by the Lakewood Park Company and moved to Lakewood Park in southern Fulton County before the start […]