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| Title | Summit Beach - Band |
| Description | A band performing at the Wisteria dance hall at Summit Beach Amusement Park during a Goodyear Aircraft Company picnic. The dance hall consisted of a 28,000-square-foot oak floor with an orchestra pit suspended over the middle of the floor. Summit Beach Park, also known as Akron's "The Million Dollar Playground" opened in 1917. It was eastern Ohio's most profitable amusement park during the 1920s. On average, the park attracted 25,000 people a day. It featured the country's largest funhouse and the Crystal Pool - the largest mosiac tile pool in the country.
The park closed on Labor Day 1958. Today, the site of Summit Beach Park is a government housing project. |
| Subject | Amusement Parks
Summit Beach Park
Goodyear Aircraft
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| Contributors | Akron-Summit County Public Library
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| Date | 20 August 1943 |
| Type | Image
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| Format | 10 in. x 8 in. |
| Identifier | 1999-2-15 |
| Source | LC_SummitBeach_Band.jpg |
| Language | English |
| Relation | General Photograph Collection
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| Rights | The copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) governs the making of reproductions of copyrighted material. This material from the picture file is protected by the copyright law. The library makes this picture available for the personal use of the borrower to be used for private study, scholarship or research. Reproduction, alteration or derivative use of this visual image for the purposes other than those listed above without the express written permission of the copyright holder may constitute an infringement of copyright law. |
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