{"product_id":"adirondack-theme-parks-and-attractions-1785535209411","title":"Adirondack Theme Parks and Attractions","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA wide-ranging history of twenty family-centered commercial attractions that flourished in the Adiroradacks over a one-hundred-year period.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAdirondack Theme Parks and Attractions\u003c\/i\u003e offers an in-depth history of the diverse array of family-oriented attractions that originated in this upstate New York region during the hundred-year period from the late 1870s. It highlights some of the creative, unconventional entrepreneurs who came up with the ideas for these centers of family fun, including\u003cbr\u003e· Joseph S. Sterling, whose two farms designed for the breeding of animals for the fur-coat trade morphed into popular wild animal attractions \u003cbr\u003e· Arto Monaco, designer of Santa's Workshop, two Gaslight Villages, Old McDonald's Farm, later iterations of Storytown, and his own Land of Makebelieve\u003cbr\u003e· Arthur L. Bensen, whose initial interest in America's historical \"frontiers\" led to cowboy-themed Frontier Town. \u003cbr\u003e· Charles (Charley) R. Wood, who imagined Storytown, as well as one Gaslight Village, and eventually oversaw an amusement-related business empire in the Lake George area\u003cbr\u003e· Thomas J. Yund, and his enthusiasm for astronomy that laid the foundation for future-oriented Time Town\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sally E. Svenson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55967796691236,"sku":"9798855809992","price":22.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0880\/7635\/3828\/files\/CoreSourceHub_80e98c36-ebdb-4f94-ad93-9e2c27654443.jpg?v=1785535228","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.co.uk\/products\/adirondack-theme-parks-and-attractions-1785535209411","provider":"IndiePubs UK","version":"1.0","type":"link"}