We’re talking about how amusement parks are way older than you probably think (and just as dangerous and offensive as you’d probably guess)!

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Sources:

Catron, Emerald. “30 Shocking Facts About Amusement Parks.” Best Life, 30 May 2018, https://bestlifeonline.com/shocking-amusement-park-facts/. 

Jacobs, AJ. “4 Ways Amusement Parks of the Past Were Not So Amusing.” Mental Floss, 10 August 2021, https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/648539/amusement-parks-terrible-history. 

“List of amusement park rankings.” Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_amusement_park_rankings.

Samuelson, Dale, and Wendy Yegoiants. The American Amusement Park. MBI Publishing Company, 2001. Internet Archive.