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Personally, I would have never thought that the trolley would lead to amusement parks. I have been to parks in Ohio, Florida, New Jersey, Massachusetts and Virginia and never knew that trolleys at first lead to "trolley parks". It is evident that back then companies began to use this form of transportation to their advantage to make money. People in the growing middle class now had a means to get away for a day. More than 100 years ago, these parks had fireworks, concerts, dancing pavilions, and picnic grounds. Sounds like Kings Dominion to me. Besides transportation to these parks, the addition of electricity allowed for park owners to keep the lights on for visitors at night. These parks became attractions for the fact that people could stay out later, thus earning the park owners to collect even more money. It is surprising to see how quickly electricity was able to be used on such a large scale. -Patrick Kramer | Personally, I would have never thought that the trolley would lead to amusement parks. I have been to parks in Ohio, Florida, New Jersey, Massachusetts and Virginia and never knew that trolleys at first lead to "trolley parks". It is evident that back then companies began to use this form of transportation to their advantage to make money. People in the growing middle class now had a means to get away for a day. More than 100 years ago, these parks had fireworks, concerts, dancing pavilions, and picnic grounds. Sounds like Kings Dominion to me. Besides transportation to these parks, the addition of electricity allowed for park owners to keep the lights on for visitors at night. These parks became attractions for the fact that people could stay out later, thus earning the park owners to collect even more money. It is surprising to see how quickly electricity was able to be used on such a large scale. -Patrick Kramer | ||
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| + | I thought it was extremely interesting that the streetcar is one of the main reasons that Sunday changed from a day to rest to a day of “restless activity.” Along with expanding the work week, the street car allowed new areas of real estate to open up and have the working class leave the congested city and move to a suburb. The streetcar alone had a great amount of influence in the growth of the middle class. On average, most citizens (including both men & women) in big cities rode the street cars between 230-265 times in one year (and 340 times in San Francisco!). Streetcar became the focus of political controversies due to the fact of safety and the amount of resistance at first. However, once it became such a huge part of urban life, people were able to really use the service, with providing better opportunities in entertainment, business, education, and many other factors. -- Megan Gallagher | ||
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