Talk:Eldorado Amusement Park

An inquiry has been made to the 3rd reference for approval. I do not know how to move the article to and from my userspace until it is fully baked for discerning editorial approval.--Wikipietime (talk) 22:39, 24 November 2012 (UTC)

Contributors and collaborators - Jump In
I created the article because I knew about it's existence and when I read the article Amusement Park and saw that there was no mention of what would have been the largest, earliest park in the most populated area of the country; I created it. Is it exhaustive?, absolutely not. Is it better than nothing? I would think even with limited coverage and detail that a small article is better than none. Maybe this should be on my talk page where someone suggested that it should be deleted and moved.--Wikipietime (talk) 15:06, 25 November 2012 (UTC)

Added some categories
...that seem pertinent. Shearonink (talk) 16:07, 25 November 2012 (UTC)

This is so much fun seeing this wonderful topic/article blossom....the Eldorado was magically synergistic to the region and the nation. I have the Boris Kirafly' Bolossy Kiralfy, Creator of Great Musical Spectacles : An Autobiography Vol. 50 (1988, Paperback, Reprint) (Trade Paper, 1988) on the way for further exploration. He seems like the man of the times.--Wikipietime (talk) 13:23, 26 November 2012 (UTC)

Trolley Park predating Amusement parks.
If one looks at the history of closed trolley parks is becomes apparent that the Eldorado was certainly a pioneer, a real marvel. The elevator and trolley surely ushered in an era of utopian-ism. The shear numbers of visitors and national visibility of the Eldorado would seemingly contributed to the soon to be sky-rocketing growth; maybe even the "grand-daddy"? Also, the short life and sudden closing of the park, combined with the opening soon after of Palisades Amusement Park; would be a curious endeavor for exploration. I would suspect that Bonn would have envisioned tying the railway into the park for the entire region. Should this be on my talk page?, if so, sorry.--Wikipietime (talk) 16:46, 26 November 2012 (UTC)

Park founders - Palisades Amusement and Exhibition Company
Fell into financial difficulty as evidenced, http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F00914FC3D5E10738DDDAD0994DC405B8185F0D3#

Seems, a section on the Company would seem proper. --Wikipietime (talk) 04:07, 4 December 2012 (UTC)

Operation dates
While researching Eldorado for a digital library page (describing an an illustration of the massive passenger elevator) I came across this entry and realized that the end date was inaccurate. I drew on library files and a 1948 history of neighboring West New York to flesh out the story some.

Once I track down my sign-in credentials I will upload an illustration from the cover of the Oct. 31, 1891 Scientific American with a nice view of the site. 65.211.97.242 (talk) 17:16, 6 September 2014 (UTC)JWB, New Jersey Room, Jersey City Public Library.

Excellent.--Wikipietime (talk) 00:49, 3 October 2014 (UTC)

Image from Scientific American
... added as promised... §JBeek

Founders
Researching the founders is interesting and may lead to material that could add to the article.

JOHN HILLRIC BONN, Jr., another son of John H. and Angelina (Bonjer) Bonn, was born in Weehawken, N. J., May 15, 1871, and received his education at Hoboken Academy and Stevens High School, from which he was graduated in 1889. In 1891 he was graduated with the degree of LL.B. from the Law Department of the University of the City of New!aduating as Master of Laws in 1892. He also read law one year in New York in the office of Brainerd, Davenport "" Brainerd. and for a time in Hoboken with Hon. Abel I. Smith and John S. Mabon,and was admitted to the bar of New York in 1893, and to the New Jersey bar as an attorney in February, 1895. In the latter year he opened offices in both Hoboken and West Hoboken. He subsequently gave up his Hoboken office, but still continues the one in West Hoboken, where he has a large and successful general practice. In 1898 he was attorney for the Township ofWeehawken. He is a master in chancery, a member of the Phi Delta Phi legal fraternity, and York, and then took a post-graduate course at that institution gr an ardent Republican.

Mr. Bonn was married January 26, 1898, to Marguerite L..daughter of Thomas and Jane Fisher, of Jersey City. They reside in Weehawken. --Wikipietime (talk) 16:26, 18 March 2016 (UTC)

He was the first, and indeed the only, president of the various original corporations; and when these were consolidated in 1865, forming the North Hudson County Railway Company, he became the first President of that corporation, and so continued until his death in 1891, a period of twenty-six years. --Wikipietime (talk) 16:31, 18 March 2016 (UTC)

Another resource with founders, principals, etc.,

Paec scrubbed
http://en.wikibedia.ru/wiki/Palisades_Amusement_and_Exhibition_Company

Yet? Wikipietime (talk) 13:26, 22 June 2020 (UTC)