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Erie Beach Park

Historic Location Recreational in Fort Erie, Ontario, Canada

Oct 26 2012

Recreational
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Recent status Historic Location
Location # 5688

Erie Beach Prak was founded in 1880s by Benjamin and Edward Baxter and W.B. Pierce . It started out as a picnic area then expanded into a Amusement Park . It was first called Snake Hill Grove. Beside catering to Canadians they advertised to Buffalo N.Y. as a way to get away from the city. A railway service started in 1887 known as the Sandfly Express .The park featured rides like a figure 8 Roller coaster Carousel called flying pony and Ferrice Wheel . They also built the Worlds larges Swimming Pool . In 1910 the year saw the building of a three story Casino that included a Bath House , Bowling Alley Resterants and a Dance Hall .Also 3,500 seat Stadium was built . In 1929 Erie Park was hit hard by the Depression and its last day was the following year Labour Day 1930. (Note...You can still see the Roller Coaster in 1934 view on Goggle Earth)

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avatar of doom vs
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11 years ago

For sure, that's good crack money.

avatar of riddimryder
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11 years ago

This should be FM. Someone might steal the bits of concrete!

avatar of superss
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11 years ago

Cool step back in time & historical photos. They liked their concrete.

avatar of WrecksdaleWreck
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12 years ago

My grandfather worked there as a security guard from 1928. He lived in a house on west side of the park and moved to the east side after the park closed. I've been there in the 50s and 60s and did all that.

avatar of ground state
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12 years ago

I managed to get out by climbing up to the support beams and shimmying across. Here's what you were looking at... the pumphouse would be just off to the right of this image: (manually highlight, copy and paste this into a new window. For some reason it gives a 404 error otherwise) http://img268.imageshack.us/img268/9330/eriepool.jpg

avatar of kev7716
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12 years ago

You can still see the Roller Coaster in 1934 view on Goggle Earth.

avatar of kev7716
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12 years ago

Wasn't even sure what it was . How did you get out?

avatar of SuperSonic
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12 years ago

that's funny....I just read about this place yesterday.

avatar of ground state
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12 years ago

I jumped down inside the old pumphouse in #13 and #14 once and couldn't get back out!