“I actually went to Glen Echo a lot, and I knew a good bit about the history of the amusement park ... protest and Black D.C.-area residents marching alongside the largely White, Jewish members ...

Municipal swimming pools flourished in the 20th century. But too often, their success was based on the exclusion of African ...

Planning a visit to Seabreeze Amusement Park? Discover the top 10 rides and ... inner tube to a spiraling bowl that drops you into the black hole and pool below. This offers 1 and 2 person tubes.

Throughout the late 1940s and early 1950s he visited other amusement parks and carnivals with an eye towards creating his own. He began to envision a cleaner theme-based park where families could ...

To celebrate that accomplishment and get more people riding the new transportation system, the Montgomery Railway Co., opened an amusement facility called Electric Park in 1904. Click through the ...