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I saw this photo on your site a while back. I like the detail of the image, so when I started messing around with an image editor, I decided I would like to try to color it. I looked up colored postcards of Luna Park, only to discover that this was Dreamland Amusement Park and it had burned to the ground 7 years after it was opened. Its design and decor was also panned in the press as being mostly white and drab, so I held back adding too much color to the buildings, but brightened it up as much as I could. Even the postcards show most everything is white. View full size.
I've found, by reading newspaper ads and announcements of the time, that Luna Park was the venue for a long line of vaudeville animal trainers.
Evidently an act would be booked into "Ring No. 1" (the only ring, actually) for a week-long showing, but I'm unsure whether two acts took turns. There might have been more than two, in order to be "continuous", but where would the animals be kept?
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