RARE 1902-1910 POCKET MIRROR PROMOTING AMUSEMENT PARK "DELMAR GARDEN OKLAHOMA CITY."
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Winning Bid:
$158.12 (Includes 15% Buyer's Premium)
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Thursday, March 22, 2012 1:00:00 PM (20 Minute Clock Begins At Thursday, March 22, 2012 1:00:00 PM)
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Auction:
Auction #205 - Part II
Item numbers 1427 through 3167 in auction 205
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Item Description
2.25" made by J.B. Carroll, Chicago and picturing great color scene of a roller coaster on a hilly, yellow track and comprised of large canopied cars holding many people. This park, like many inspired by New York's Coney Island, covered forty acres and was served by the city's trolley service. Park included 3,000 seat theater, dance pavilion, horse race track, baseball field, exotic animal zoo, beer garden, amusement rides, penny arcade and a floating wedding chapel. As the city's premiere playground it drew thousands of visitors and entertainers like Lon Chaney Sr. and Buster Keaton, boxers John L. Sullivan and Jack Dempsey, and legendary race horse Dan Patch. However, being on a prairie river, not the Atlantic Ocean, swarms of mosquitoes that came along with the river's annual flooding contributed to the park's closure finalized by the advent of Prohibition in 1907 as part of the new state's constitution. Four tiny faint tan dots around the cloud formations but otherwise Exc. and displaying NM. Only example we've seen.
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