Saturday, May 4, 2013

Number Four of Trolley Parks in Maine

The entrance to Lake Grove Park, Auburn 1900 - click to enlarge
Photo: Seashore Trolley Museum via www.mainememory.net
  How about roller skating and then dinner while watching the Powder Puffs musical act?  Even if it's on the eastern shore of Lake Auburn?  Not even if there is a slide show with "dissolving pictures" made from hand painted glass slides?  Even if it just costs five cents to ride the horse-drawn trolley?
  Such was entertainment in 1900, and that is what this park, and most of the others, offered.  Times had changed by the 1920's and changed even more after World War Two when, I'm guessing, most of us were born.
Building that house the attractions at Lake Grove Park 1910 - click to enlarge
Photo: Seashore Trolley Museum via www.mainememory.net
 

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