{"id":4888,"date":"2016-11-25T14:31:36","date_gmt":"2016-11-25T20:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/longfellow365.com\/?p=4888"},"modified":"2016-11-25T14:31:36","modified_gmt":"2016-11-25T20:31:36","slug":"east-lake-street-history-wonderland-amusement-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/longfellow365.com\/2016\/11\/25\/east-lake-street-history-wonderland-amusement-park\/","title":{"rendered":"East Lake Street History: Wonderland Amusement Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4879\" src=\"https:\/\/longfellow365.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/20161125longtine-jones.jpg\" alt=\"20161125longtine-jones\" width=\"1979\" height=\"1261\" srcset=\"https:\/\/longfellow365.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/20161125longtine-jones.jpg 1800w, https:\/\/longfellow365.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/20161125longtine-jones-300x191.jpg 300w, https:\/\/longfellow365.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/20161125longtine-jones-768x489.jpg 768w, https:\/\/longfellow365.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/20161125longtine-jones-1024x652.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1979px) 100vw, 1979px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Wonderland Amusement Park opened in 1905 between Lake &amp; 32nd St. and 31st &amp; 32nd Avenues. Some of the popular attractions were roller coaster, miniature train, carousel, and the \u201cHouse of Nonsense, but the Infantorium was the biggest hit. Visitors could watch nurses taking care of premature babies in newly invented incubators, a marvel for the time.<\/p>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">\n<p>Wonderland closed six years later in 1911 as attendance dropped, equipment deteriorated and street maintenance fees rose. You can see the full story of Wonderland on the placard at Lake St. and 31st Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>See the YouTube video about Wonderland:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bk-WrcnWtaI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bk-WrcnWtaI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photo: Megan Longtine-Jones<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wonderland Amusement Park opened in 1905 between Lake &amp; 32nd St. and &#8230; <a title=\"East Lake Street History: Wonderland Amusement Park\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/longfellow365.com\/2016\/11\/25\/east-lake-street-history-wonderland-amusement-park\/\" aria-label=\"More on East Lake Street History: Wonderland Amusement Park\">READ MORE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9161,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[545,686,345],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/longfellow365.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4888"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/longfellow365.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/longfellow365.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/longfellow365.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/longfellow365.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/longfellow365.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/longfellow365.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/longfellow365.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/longfellow365.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/longfellow365.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}