THERE were no amusement parks a century ago? You bet there were. Dreamland, 1905. At night, the tower was illuminated by a million lights.
Location: Coney Island, formerly in Dutch Konijnen Eiland. Early on that place was basically owned by wild rabbits, and it was so bad that, if you didn’t behave in Peter Stuyvesant’s New Amsterdam, you were exiled there.
Dreamland burned to the ground in 1911. Short-circuited.
