Amusement Parks Started: Small And Grew Big!

Pleasure Gardens was how this idea of amusement parks started, pleasure gardens had a few rides, dancing, games, and live entertainment! This sort of amusement park was located in Medieval England and was popular till about 1700's when alot of political problems came about making most of the amusement parks like Pleasure Gardens shut there amusement park down!

The Unites States took hold of amusement parks in the 1800's, most of the amusement parks were built at the end of the trolley line. A lot them had dancing, picnic areas, games, and a few rides, and of course it grew popular immediately becoming a big success by the 1890's. The world's Columbian Exposition in Chicago introduced the ferris wheel, and the midway (has a variety of diffrent ride's, and concessions.)

In 1894 things continued to change, Paul Boynton ended up making the world's first modern amusement park. As it continued to grow they started to charge people with admissions, and used the rides to draw the people in. Later in 1895 he opened a park at Coney Island, and over the years it grew even bigger, and amusement parks started to show up all over the place. New rides opening up, and being created as well, by 1919 amusement parks were opened in the United States. The great depression decreased the number of amusement parks, and people who went to them in such a bad time zone around 1935 there were only about 400 amusement parks. When World War 2 came around that didn't help the business either! A ton of amusement parks closed during the war, and no more new rides were made so the amusement park able to stay open.

After World War 2 amusement parks became popular once more, and quickly. More amusement parks opened, and new rides came back around. Around 1955 Disneyland was created, and thats when amusement parks became the most popular when everyone started to copy the success from Disneyland creating there own amusement parks and to this day there popular as ever!