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Playland Park was an amusement park located in South Bend, Indiana. It was bounded by the St. Joseph River, Ironwood Drive, and Lincolnway East. ==History== Playland Park started as a trolley park in 1880, originally called Springbook Park. By 1912 it had a Casino, an exhibition hall and a large roller coaster. In 1916 a race track was added. In 1924 Pete Redden became manager of the park. He held a contest and the park was renamed "Playland Park" and the roller coaster was renamed the "Jack Rabbit". Besides being a popular amusement park, the park also had a baseball field. The South Bend Blue Sox of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League played most of their games there. The park had a dance hall that hosted many famous bands such as Cab Calloway, Duke Ellington and Ozzie Nelson drawing 2,000 to 3,000 people on the weekends. Times changed and small amusement parks fell out of favor. In 1961 it closed and was turned into a lighted par-3 golf course. That closed after 40 years and now it is student housing for Indiana University South Bend. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Playland Park (Indiana)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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