1920's Brochure. Can anyone help?

Jason Hammond's avatar

I recently aquired this brochure. My initail feeling was that it was somewhere between 1920 and 1928. The Bon Air wing was in 1920 and the Cyclone was in 1929. On the Aerial view, you can see Racer so Cyclone isn't there yet. But if you look on the other foldout, there is a view of the East side of the park and it looks like the coaster may be cyclone. It doesn't look like Racer to me. If that's the case, that would put it at least to 1929. What does everyone else think?

http://rollercoasterfreak.com/CP_Brochures/1929-30_Brochure.html

*** Edited 2/25/2007 2:19:31 PM UTC by Jason Hammond***


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There is mention of 18 holes of golf at Plum Brook Country Club. PBCC didn't expand its golf course to 18 holes until July 1929.


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It is kind of odd that there is an ariel with Racer and an ariel with Cyclone. I really couldn't say based on what I know, though after what Walt just said, it would seem to be 1929.


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Or later. Since Cyclone opened in 1929 it's not likely that they'd have a picture of it in the 1929 brochure.


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Everything you need to know is right here.

http://www.rollercoasterfreak.com/CP_Brochures/2006_hwpg_map.jpg


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Any idea of the age of this?

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Jeff Young said:
Walt, you never cease to amaze me. You know so much about the park, the area, etc. How do you know so much? :)

Well, I can't say that I have local golf history memorized. I looked that fact up. :)


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I looked up the golf shop my self, but I didn't think to search for the expansion. :)

In regards to the other picture, Since the Bon Air Wing isn't on the breakers yet, it would be befor 1920. The picture doesn't show enough to the right and my eyes arn't good enough to tell how many coasters are there. The Dock on the far side came in 1907. What would help age it better would be knowing how many roller coasters are in the park. And the view isn't far enough to the left to see the ones that would be there at the time. 1 coaster would date this as 1907. 2 coasters would date it between 1908 and 1911. It's hard to tell but the Water Tower does not appear to be there yet. That and 3 coasters would make it 1912 or 1913, and with the water tower would be between 1914 and 1919.


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For a point of comparison. This is another brochure of mine, which I belive to be circa 1907.

http://rollercoasterfreak.com/CP_Brochures/1907_Brochure.html


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Loopy's avatar

I think it's humorous that all the early brochures have Pittsburgh spelled without the "H" on the end.

I'm guessing that the '68 and '69 off seasons wielded the road structure we see today on the Point? I would think that those were the huge turning years for the park since back then 4 Million dollars was a somewhat large amount of money.


*** Edited 2/25/2007 3:37:53 PM UTC by Loopy***


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