Cedar Point: Beachside Amusement to World-Class Park
Cedar Point: Beachside Amusement to World-Class Park When Cedar Point is mentioned in conversation, usually images of high-speed record-breaking roller coasters come to mind. What the average person may not realize is that over a hundred years of history has helped Cedar Point become the roller coaster capital of the world. Cedar Point started as a modest white sand beach on Lake Erie in 1870. That year an entrepreneur, Louis Zistel, built a beer garden, a children's entertainment area, and most notably, a bathhouse on the beach. Throughout the next twenty-seven years, other entrepreneurs came along, building bathhouses on the picturesque Lake Erie, and further increasing Cedar Point's popularity. As Cedar Point's popularity grew, other neighboring communities wanted to gain profit from their position on Lake Erie. In response to the growing competition, Cedar Point owners made a series of investments to increase the parks popularity. The 1888 season brought the construction of the Grand Pavilion, a large wooden building where people could dine and even bowl. The following year yielded the construction of the Ladies Pavilion, which, as the name implies, was built with ladies' amusement in mind, in addition to games for chi
Celebrating their 130th season and the coming of a new millennium, Cedar Point erected the record-breaking 310' tall, 93 MPH Millennium Force in the year 2000. In 1964, Cedar Point built the 78' tall Blue Streak coaster, which stands today as Cedar Point's oldest roller coaster. Like Boeckling, Roose and Legros began a series of expansions to help Cedar Point become the thriving park that it was nearly 30 years before them. The expanding popularity of the automobile in the 'teens created the need for Cedar Point Road, or the Chaussee, the first road connecting the peninsula to the mainland; the Chaussee was built in 1914. Not all was bad during the 1930's; Cedar Point management renovated the second floor of the Coliseum building to an Art Deco themed dance hall, where the best big bands played and where people danced to forget the troubles during wartime. This latest behemoth of steel track stands at 420' tall, and like its predecessors, stands as the first to break the 400' mark. The Leap the Dips Scenic Railway had its last season in 1935, and High Frolics, formerly the Scenic Railway, closed in 1939. There were so many enhancements to the park that a reporter for the local newspaper wrote that there were so many changes to the park that "it would require columns to do them justice. The coaster stood 25 feet tall and reached amazing speeds of 10 MPH. Boeckling steamship, which ferried passengers from Sandusky to Cedar Point, also gave her final ride that year. In over 130 years of amusement, Cedar Point has come a long way from the white sand beach it was originally popular for. The 1965 season reached new heights as the 330' tall Space Spiral was constructed, and two million people visited the park. The year 1897 brought Cedar Point into a new era, as George Arthur Boeckling, originally a railway businessman, purchased the park for a quarter of a million dollars. Dozens of rides and attractions were constructed and opened, many of which still stand today.
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