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El� "A <br />'�ESTERN WINEPIN COUNTY <br />N)16 <br />BIG ISLAND AMUSEMENT PARK notes_ <br />PIONEERS ASSOCIATION, INC. <br />II (FOUNDED 1"7) <br />►.0. LONG LAKE, MINN. 55356 <br />Please credit WEST HENNEPIN PIONEER ASSN. ARCHIVES !!'!! <br />Data in ELECTRIC RAILWAYS OF MINNESOTA by Russell Olson (copyrighted ) <br />John Philip Sousa playod marches with his Band drawing huge crowds <br />BIG ISLAND PARK opens 8-5-1906 ( Mtka.Record 8-5-1906 <br />Minnetonka Record- 6-3-1910 Big Island Park opens rriday <br />Last days of Big Island Park Story in Minnetonka Record 2-16-1912 <br />St Paul Suburban Railroad offers Excelsior the Roller Coaster to install on <br />their Park COMMONS <br />The Streetcar Company's Tonka Bay Hovel and the AMUSEMENT PARK closed for <br />good August 28, 19II says Ellen Meyer in HAPPENINGS AROUND EXCELSIOR 2.76 <br />Roger Milton Stubbs ( 1.882-1981 ) in MINNESOTA MMMORIES <br />" When the Amusement Park opened on Big Island, we sometimes went over there <br />by boats from Maxwell's Bay and Smith Bay shores. They had a ferris wheel, <br />Aerry-go-Round and Picnic grounds. Duke Earl Brooks was a powerful man and <br />bIg statire and he was a cop there hired by the management. <br />They had a tall water tower too. I saw a stunt-hand-over-han(i demonstration <br />by a man climbing to the top. He tied a rope to the top and when he came down <br />,,ie gave the rope a flip and the rope came down to him. He got paid $10 for this. <br />The tower seemed at least 60 feet high. <br />There was lots of time to listen to the Band playing as we ate pir-,nic dinner <br />or went on the rides. <br />Once my friend DUKE came over to our group and said he war, looking for some <br />scoundrels that stole some Band instruments" <br />Minnetonka Record 4-5-1901--'Big Island Park •111 have early opening,..This promises <br />a lively season at Lake Minnetonka. Formal of .n_i ng will be .June 16th. fie T.rir. <br />City Trolley Company are bri , Banda Rona to lead dignity and will play eNery <br />every afternoon and evening for several weeks. Following this group the Royal <br />Hungarian Band and other Italian musicians w111 perform. There will be eleven weeks <br />of high class music beside many other amwwints. Weather will not be of i Fr -•me <br />importance ass the musicians will be in the new music pavilion. This can be closm-4 <br />In oa stormy nights. The Park will be a veritable fairyland this susmN+r and no doubt <br />many of the L.Ake people will spend stare +ism there.. Hundreds Idl)-came from the <br />city and take the ferry boats to the 1grk"4 15 foot diameter clock erecte' for lorg <br />distance viewing/" <br />rootnote-Hoe :Asen of the W.N. k. staff took pictures of the olr' foundation <br />concrete still viable in 1986. <br />