Rides
Idora Park rides cost 5 cents. Many of the rides were advertised as being the "largest," or the "first."
- Circle Swing - a large round flat disk or bench suspended by chains from a central pole, people could sit on the bench to swing
- Social Whirl - a platform inside a structure which people would sit on until the centrifugal force pushed them off
- Barrel-of-fun
- Trip through Hades
- Helter Skelter - a slide type ride
- The Chutes
- Miniature Railway Train - a small steam powered railroad that carried people through the park
- Haunted swings
- Ferris wheel
- Touring cars
- Circle Wave
- Flying Swing - a swings (ride) with cars suspended from a central point that turned fast enough for the cars to become elevated (similar to the Chair-O-Planes ride)
- The Tickler - appears to be a ride with a car on a twisting track
- A Merry-go-round
- The Mountain Slide - appears to be a slide down through a mountain
- Auto Race Course - a circular track where two full size, electrically powered automobiles, filled with people, would race each other to an exciting finish.
Rides were renamed regularly and one finds titles such as Dodge 'em, The Whip, Over the Top, Race through the Clouds and the Magic Carpet.
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Famous quotes containing the word rides:
“Of all the rides since the birth of time,
Told in story or sung in rhyme,—”
—John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892)
“Commuter—one who spends his life
In riding to and from his wife;
A man who shaves and takes a train,
And then rides back to shave again.”
—E.B. (Elwyn Brooks)
“The one who rides knows not the trials of walking; he who is full does not know the bitterness of hunger.”
—Chinese proverb.