This impressive entrance in Forest park at Independence avenue and Hardesty street was also the end of the line for Independence avenue cable cars. The amusement park was privately owned and operated between 1903 and 1912. Col. John D. Hopkins, Lloyd Brown, W. R. Fisher and John D. Tippett were among the managers and lessors.Attraction included glass blowers, a laughing gallery, scenic railway, Cave of the Winds, pony track, donkeys to ride and a $15,000 English carousel. Lenge's military band played concerts and there was a restaurant, picnic grounds and even a large round well-stocked monkey house. Today residences and businesses fill the four city blocks the park occupied, with an auto parts store on the corner pictured. Kansas City Times, August 17, 1968.
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