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Title: The street railway review
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association
Subjects: Street-railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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are largely of a class to whom extended summeroutings are impossible. To this class the park manager performswhat has become an indispensable office. He furnishes cheap and do so may -it and smoke oi partake ol refreshments while the performanci is going on. On a .; ! ft. elevation above the box another space on which tables are arranged, around which parties may mi and be relieved of the conventional seats in the parquet. All the waj around the theater is a promenade ;„. ft.wide, (hi the end opposite the stage is a high lattice, and in eachcorner of the from is a refreshment stand in which refreshingdrinks are served. The entrance to the theater is over a 25-ft.approach from the bank. \ graceful arch surmounts the en-trance gates and thi- is lighted by a string of incandescent lights. I lie stage i- surmounted by a well proportioned proscenium arch,io ft. wide at it- base, with a radius of 63 ft. The stage itself1- ti ft long by 21 ft. broad, and is prnviilcd Willi the usual drops
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AQOATIC THEATER \T EAST LAKE PARK, B1RM INCH AM, ALA. rapid ti i crowded commercial centers t.. rn Eden where the natural beauties of forest and water ■ I upon (in the taste of many) by the inn iunds, dancing pavilions, bowling alleys and on public ha- come to feel at hi such pi- railway- have provided, and in a measut tal ntionitig his city a man railway park- much as thai mad.- 11 fam ery city of II-parkt, whii I moun tain I . have loi here. Such good 1 parkwith the retull that li. R BIRMINGHAM, ALA thor ough overhauling lilt out mil i- It i> :.. tb.. ■! ba. kof th .re to and wmg-. There are tWO large and spacn.ll- dressing rooms on each side ..1 the stage, which afford ample space for the making up ..i a largi opera c pany, if necessary. i in lighting ol iln theatei is by means of live rows •>!g 11.mi thi Stage 1.. the fronl ..I the building and aggrega mething 1 three hundred in number. Be id. thi ire ib. usual fool lights .mil other stage lights controlled byswitches

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