Chester Park 2

 

Various views of the Lake and swimming areas 

Swimming pool Chester.jpg (83171 bytes)    Bathing Beach Chester.jpg (103380 bytes)    Bathing Beach 2 Chester .jpg (126471 bytes)    Toboggan slide 1.jpg (83141 bytes)    Chester View.jpg (890108 bytes)

  The building you see clearly in the 3rd card above was called Hilarity Hall. When you went to Chester Park you always saved your last ticket for this attraction because once you went inside, everything was free. In 1928 a poured-concrete swimming pool was built using part of the lake. The last non-postcard image above is the actual photograph used to make the card on the left.

Toboggan slide 2.jpg (109814 bytes)    Chester Park Fun on Slides.jpg (106855 bytes)    Chester Park-boat ride.jpg (87598 bytes)    Shooting yhe Shoots.jpg (115609 bytes)    Chester Park-Swimmers.jpg (664696 bytes)

 

Chester Statue 2.jpg (79138 bytes)            Chester Statue 1.jpg (91119 bytes)            Chester Park-Laundry & Dreamland.jpg (287117 bytes)            Chester Park at Night.jpg (128802 bytes)
  Statue of Liberty located in center of the Lake                                Wun Lung Laundry                         Chester at night
                                                              Dreamland Entrance

   The Wun Lung Laundry was a "fun factory" that opened in 1908. It was guaranteed to produce "more laughs than were ever crowded into one amusement feature." Dreamland opened in 1905 and transported boatloads of visitors through scenery of the great outdoors culminating in a startling downward chute ride, (it was located above the water.)

Miniature Rail Road circling the water  

Chester Shaking.jpg (98362 bytes)        Chester Park Foolish-Staircase.jpg (249084 bytes)        Chester Park-Train Ride.jpg (107246 bytes)*
          Shaking Stairs & Railroad Depot                                     Miniature Railroad

 

Chester Park Minature RR.jpg (339335 bytes)    Chester Park-z1.jpg (112940 bytes)    Minature RR 1.jpg (74195 bytes)    Minature RR 2.jpg (116941 bytes)    Minature RR 3.jpg (66875 bytes)
Miniature  Railroad

 

Water Wagon.jpg (114719 bytes)                    Patriotic vert.jpg (134390 bytes)                    Chester Park Bug House Poster.jpg (503113 bytes)*
To keep the dust down                                  Patriotic                                Poster for Bug House    

   Thanks once again to Ellis Unger for the Chester Park Bug House poster image.