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- Wait Until It Stops: 1925
- "Glen Echo Park Co., 1925." The Dentzel Carousel at the Glen Echo amusement park in Montgomery County, Maryland. National Photo Company ... the Internet photo slideshow was as close as I'll get to Glen Echo.)
Glen Echo I rode on this carousel as a child in the 1980s. ...
Posted by Dave - 07/14/2023 - 6:42pm -
- Glen Echo Girls: 1935
- ... 4, 1935. Montgomery County, Maryland. "Bathing girls at Glen Echo amusement park." 4x5 inch acetate negative by Theodor Horydczak. ...
Fun is where you find it ... Where do you find it? Glen Echo Amusement Park
The Coaster Dip is cool, so's the Crystal Pool. ...
Posted by Dave - 07/14/2023 - 9:49pm -
- Skooter: 1928
- Bumper cars at the Glen Echo amusement park in Montgomery County, Maryland, circa 1928. National ...
"Fun is where you find it,
Where do you find it?
Glen Echo
Amusement Park!"
I can still hear it today.
Little Ladies ... they have been less popular with park owners.
Glen Echo echo "The coaster dip is cool
and so's the crystal pool,
bla ...
Posted by Dave - 11/04/2012 - 8:00pm -
- Coaster Dips: 1928
- 1928. Roller coaster at the Glen Echo amusement park in Montgomery County, Maryland. View full size. National Photo Company Collection.
Glen Echo Park http://www.glenechopark.org/parkmap.pdf
Victim of the times I read a bit of the history of the Glen Echo Amusement Park and it seems to have been a victim of the 1960s. The ...
Posted by Dave - 02/22/2008 - 8:53pm -
- Big Fun: 1928
- Roller coaster at the Glen Echo amusement park in Montgomery County, Maryland, circa 1928. View ... by steel. Safety is not one of the issues.
1891--1968 Glen Echo The Glen Echo Park began in 1891 as a National Chautauqua Assembly and then ...
Posted by Dave - 09/03/2012 - 6:49pm -
- Naval Escort: 1943
- ... County, Maryland. "Servicemen and their girls at the Glen Echo amusement park." Medium format nitrate negative by Esther Bubley for ... [good eye]
Used to live across the street from Glen Echo I remember trying to fall asleep on those hot, humid DC nights, to ...
Posted by Dave - 08/30/2017 - 8:43pm -
- Sands of Glen Echo: 1943
- July 1943. Glen Echo, Maryland. "Sun bathers on the sand beach at the swimming pool in the Glen Echo amusement park." In the foreground: The photographer's sisters Claire ...
But I'd never seen this one, or any that she'd taken at Glen Echo. Interestingly, another sister--Anita--would move close to Glen Echo ...
Posted by Dave - 09/15/2009 - 9:36am -
- Glen Echo Park: 1928
- Montgomery County, Maryland, circa 1928. "Glen Echo Park." Another look at this old-school attraction in the Washington ... 1950s to early 60s, my mother took my brother & me to Glen Echo once every summer or so. Next to the beach it was my favorite ...
Posted by Dave - 08/18/2012 - 12:02pm -
- Glen Echo: 1925
- 1925. "Glen Echo Park Co." Picnic tables at the Montgomery County, Maryland, amusement ... wonder if was a company picnic. And of course, everyone at Glen Echo was white, and would be until 1960.
The Cloche Hat sitting on ... flapper standing left of the tree!
So Glad That Glen Echo still exists and that some of the rides have been restored so that ...
Posted by Dave - 08/24/2013 - 6:49pm -
- Gentlemen Will Not Get Gay: 1925
- Funhouse at the Glen Echo amusement park in Maryland circa 1925. Note the many cryptic signs. ... Roulette Washington Post May 21, 1911
A New Glen Echo
Outdoor Amusement Grounds Present Many Attractive Features
With the opening next Saturday afternoon of the Glen Echo Park, which under its new management of local business men, has been ...
Posted by Dave - 09/03/2012 - 11:56am -
- Glen Echo Girls: 1924
- ... County, Maryland. More fun at the Elks outing at Glen Echo Park. View full size. National Photo Company Collection glass ...
Posted by Dave - 09/09/2011 - 1:35pm -
- Modern Photography: 1943
- July 1943. Glen Echo, Maryland. "Climbing the ladder to the sliding board at the Glen Echo swimming pool on a hot day." Photo by Esther Bubley. View full size.
Glen Echo When I was about 7 (1960 or so), I lived across the road from Glen ...
Posted by Dave - 10/21/2015 - 2:47pm -
- Vertigo: 1928
- The Coaster Dips rollercoaster at Glen Echo amusement park circa 1928. View full size. National Photo Company ... you sure stay in (most of the time, anyway). Great pic
Glen Echo Park Glen Echo Park was originally founded in 1888 to be the "National" Chautauqua. ...
Posted by Dave - 07/18/2012 - 11:30am -
- Joy Ride: 1924
- 1924. Montgomery County, Maryland. "Elks Outing, Glen Echo." View full size. 4x5 glass negative, National Photo Company ... rides Long dress + carnival rides = trouble!
Glen Echo Park Pics I believe that the park has been closed but at least ...
Posted by Dave - 08/18/2012 - 11:58am -
- Thrillsville: 1928
- The "Aeroplane" ride at Glen Echo amusement park in Montgomery County, Maryland, circa 1928. View ... The Washington Post, May 20, 1928
Thrills at Glen Echo
In this air age, it is not to be wondered that the new ... quarters to keep me airborne.
I did that I was at Glen Echo many times, but during the 50's. My Aunt Dorothy would take me for ...
Posted by Dave - 08/18/2012 - 11:56am -
- Next Stop Funville: 1959
- February 8, 1959. Montgomery County, Maryland. "Glen Echo Park entrance with trolley to Union Station in front." Gelatin silver ... full size.
Not Funville if you weren't White Glen Echo park was segregated until 1961. It permanently closed in 1968. The ...
Posted by Dave - 07/18/2023 - 12:57pm -
- Fare Maiden: 1943
- ... denomination of coins may be used..." -tterrace]
Glen Echo The amusement park was still a popular streetcar destination in ...
Posted by Dave - 05/16/2014 - 7:24pm -
- Throck and the Kats: 1921
- ... .
I will be in DC in May (I grew up not far from Glen Echo Park, actually). I may take a little visit down to Thomas Circle to ...
Posted by Dave - 08/05/2012 - 4:49pm -
- Get Happy: 1925
- ...
Washington Post, May 31, 1925.
Glen Echo Park Thrives.
At Glen Echo the new ballroom has proved a wonderful addition to the park, and ...
Posted by Dave - 09/30/2011 - 8:49pm -
- World Cruise: 1943
- ... Among the more than 50 attractions to be found at Glen Echo Park, the free admission amusement park and recreational center located at Glen Echo, Maryland, is the magnificent World Cruise Water Ride. Embarking at ...
Posted by Dave - 10/25/2016 - 4:55pm -
- Dr. Buzzkill: 1925
- ... of Miss Sally Canada, 19, daughter of the postmistress at Glen Echo, Md., then arrested her and raided her mother's store.
U. S. ...
Down in a Maryland town bearing the romantic name of Glen Echo lives a nineteen-year-old girl and a High School graduate, one Sally ...
Posted by Dave - 09/13/2011 - 6:30pm -
- The Funnies: 1922
- ... in the sack.
MOM!!! You TOLD us we were going to Glen Echo amusement park!
Who knew? I almost did a Givney flip take when ...
Posted by Dave - 07/24/2012 - 7:09pm -
- Last Ones In: 1943
- July 1943. Glen Echo, Maryland. "Swimming pool in the Glen Echo amusement park." Where most of the swimsuits aren't swimming. ... the '50s and early '60s was constantly peppered with the Glen Echo jingle which can be heard at the following link, as originally ...
Posted by Dave - 11/16/2015 - 4:39pm -
- F Street: 1908
- ... Lincoln Park streetcar advertising the "hydraulic dive" at Glen Echo. 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full ... 1908? But seriously now, I think it reads "WYNDALE LANE GLEN ECHO," IMHO.
[The Hydraulic Dive was a roller coaster at the Glen ...
Posted by Dave - 08/09/2012 - 7:14pm -
- Downward Spiral: 1928
- Montgomery County, Maryland, circa 1928. "Glen Echo Amusement Co." The Coaster Dips roller coaster at Glen Echo Park outside Washington, D.C. National Photo Company Collection glass ...
Posted by Dave - 07/18/2012 - 11:35am -
- Streetcar to the Sky: 1913
- ... Just wondering.
Sort of reminds me of the trolley to Glen Echo Park in Maryland, although more dramatic.
Trolleys are making a ...
Posted by Dave - 08/07/2012 - 1:37pm -
- Old-Timer: 1915
- ... The Cabin John area of Bethesda, which includes the Glen Echo Amusement Park, got its name from a fellow named John who lived in a ...
Posted by Dave - 08/07/2012 - 11:04am -
- The Whip: 1928
- "Glen Echo, 1928." Riding the Whip at Glen Echo amusement park in Maryland. View full size. National Photo ... still putting the finishing touches on the new amusements, Glen Echo Park, Washington's favorite amusement grounds, formally opened the ...
Posted by Dave - 07/24/2008 - 3:33pm -
- Pennyland: 1928
- 1928. At the Glen Echo amusement park in Montgomery County, Maryland, near Washington. ...
Disneyland for D.C. Dwellers Glen Echo, or "Clown Echo," as this 4-year-old pronounced it, was the closest ...
Posted by Dave - 02/19/2008 - 7:06am -
- Gypsy Camp: 1925
- ... Montgomery County, Maryland, 1925. "Fortune teller -- Glen Echo Park Co." National Photo Company Collection glass negative. View ... placed through the winter of 1912-1913 of Madame Careta of Glen Echo being at 809 9th street NW for the winter. By June of 1913 she is ...
Posted by Dave - 08/16/2016 - 10:43pm -