Saturday, November 7, 2015

we did. My first impression was the permanence of the entire set-up. Every building is sprinklered and the first buildings we went into were finished inside on a par with any store on Boylston Street. Nothing could be bought at a cheap price. Very expensive China - Jewelry - Toys. Games everything immagionable - well packaged. It appeared to me that there are mostly concessions - each hall so to speak could have a dozen concessions in it. The colored post cards I thought were too modernistic rather than attractive which accounts for the few I bought. They had none of the large size for the reason that the place had been built so fast they  had insufficient time to get the plates ready. There were horse trolleys running on narrow gauge tracks pulled by one horse 10c. There were fire engine hose wagons pulled by two small horses. Small Livery Wagons carrying five or six all pulled by a special breed of small horse. You get about a 10 minute ride and the average price was 50c and 25c. Everything was built right and according to scale. There are motor boats to take you on a Jungle trip. There is a good sized back paddle wheel steamer - a smaller sized reproduction of a Mississippi packed called the "Mark Twain" In Adventureland. "Frontierland"-"Fantasyland" and "Tommorrowland" we had expected to find inside rooms or displays relating to the title but not so - every one had Display Rooms with things to sell. I never saw so many eating places in my life. Again everything top price. Fantasyland from the outside is exactly like the pictures. Durably built and supposed to be an exact replica of an English Castle. Inside there were flying horses and all other sorts of amusements. We finished up half the park up to 1PM and decided to have lunch at the Parking Place in the

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