Electric Park

Electric Park is a genre of defunct amusement parks operating from the 1880s to the 1920s, to showcase the electrification of, and the advent of electricity as a utility in, the United States. Many were constructed as trolley parks and owned by electric companies and streetcar companies. After 1903, the success of Coney Island inspired a proliferation of parks named Luna Park and Electric Park, and the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 inspired the formation of White City amusement parks at about the same time. The existence of most of these parks was generally brief, roughly 15 years on average, and the bulk of them closed by 1917, when the United States entered World War I. Many of the parks' pavilions have outlasted the parks.