Lake Pontchartrain (Images of America)

Spanish Fort Picnics and Dancing

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By the 1870’s and 1880’s a railroad line made a ride from the city to the lake relatively easy. This 1919 advertisement for Spanish Fort Amusement Park touts “Spacious Picnic Grounds” and invites guests to “bring the kiddies…It’ll be of benefit to every member of the family”. .

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The Spanish Fort pavilion, the site of band concerts and lectures, hosted notables including William Makepeace Thackeray and General Ulysses S. Grant. This 1919 advertisement announces a concert with “strains of well rendered music by Paoletti’s Band” in the “Model Dancing Pavilion”.

    

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