Wood Coaster Mania:
Inventors try to do anything possible with wood. some worked out better than others. For example the Racing coaster, leap-the-gap coasters (never saw a rider until the missing section was filled in), Virginia Reels (coasters with small round tubs that could rotate as well), Ticklers (or pinball, coasters, place the round car at the top of an inclined ' pinball' layout and let it fall, never the same ride twice) The more steady earners however were the out-and-backs, figure 8's and Twisters.
Coaster building flourished from the turn of the century through the Roaring 20's, with an estimated 2,000 coasters in the USA alone. Every park of some size had a coaster. While these were not as intense as todays rides, imagine having one in every major city. Sadly, this trend did not last too long, and the Great Depression, as well as World War II, made it seem like the roller coaster fad had ended, with coasters being demolished at an alarming rate. We came to the brink of roller-coasters being a novelty item, found in obscure parks, or only a memory or legend to most of us.
Inventors try to do anything possible with wood. some worked out better than others. For example the Racing coaster, leap-the-gap coasters (never saw a rider until the missing section was filled in), Virginia Reels (coasters with small round tubs that could rotate as well), Ticklers (or pinball, coasters, place the round car at the top of an inclined ' pinball' layout and let it fall, never the same ride twice) The more steady earners however were the out-and-backs, figure 8's and Twisters.
Coaster building flourished from the turn of the century through the Roaring 20's, with an estimated 2,000 coasters in the USA alone. Every park of some size had a coaster. While these were not as intense as todays rides, imagine having one in every major city. Sadly, this trend did not last too long, and the Great Depression, as well as World War II, made it seem like the roller coaster fad had ended, with coasters being demolished at an alarming rate. We came to the brink of roller-coasters being a novelty item, found in obscure parks, or only a memory or legend to most of us.
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