Other Luna Parks
Several other Luna Parks were developed after the one in Coney Island. Frederick Ingersoll opened a Luna Park in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1905, and another in Cleveland, Ohio, that same year. By 1915, there were Ingersoll Luna Parks all over the world.
Two amusement parks named Luna Park which are still operating are located in Australia, at Melbourne (1912) and Sydney (1935). These parks copied some of the features as well as the name of the original.
The term Luna Park in Italy is used as a generic name for amusement parks, both traveling or stable. The amusement park at the Esposizione Universale Roma neighborhood in Rome is named Luna Park Permanente di Roma (LunEur).
Regardless of their official names, every amusement park in Turkey is called lunapark.
In Israel, Greece and Serbia Luna Park is used as a generic term for amusement parks.
Lunapark is the title of a 1992 album by the musical group 'Luna'.
One of the most renowned sporting, concert, and show business venues in Buenos Aires, Argentina is called "Luna Park", right next to the Puerto Madero neighborhood.
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Famous quotes containing the word parks:
“Perhaps our own woods and fields,—in the best wooded towns, where we need not quarrel about the huckleberries,—with the primitive swamps scattered here and there in their midst, but not prevailing over them, are the perfection of parks and groves, gardens, arbors, paths, vistas, and landscapes. They are the natural consequence of what art and refinement we as a people have.... Or, I would rather say, such were our groves twenty years ago.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)