Luna Park
Luna Park

Luna Park

Luna Park - West Seattle WA

Historic 20th century seaside amusement parks like Coney Island in New York and Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk in California are few and far between a century later. Seattle also had an Edwardian era seaside amusement park in West Seattle called ‘Luna Park.’ Located on the tide flats of Elliott Bay across from downtown Seattle near the tip of Alki Beach, the park was accessed by trolley, ferry or railway. Like most amusement parks of that era, the park featured a hand-carved carousel, a roller coaster and other rides. During the evenings the park’s buildings and rides were outlined with white lights and was visible from downtown across the bay. Built in 1907 (the year West Seattle was annexed into the city of Seattle) the park was only open until 1913 and then closed and dismantled.

These days the memory of Luna Park are all but forgotten and the name only lives on in a handful of shops and a cafe at the foot of the West Seattle Hill.

Update on painting the house: I discovered yesterday (after painting about 1/5 of the house) that the paint Home Depot tinted for us was interior paint not exterior. Sheesh, really? But I will give them credit for making it right and giving us a 15% discount on the five gallon bucket of the right paint. Needless to say, I’ll be starting over today, thankfully I hadn’t gotten very far before the error was discovered.  We all make mistakes…

(Subscribe to posts via RSS, via eMail).

Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...

12 Comments

  1. Wonderful lights in this photo! Your night shots are always super. Hang in there with the painting….I’m always to enthused when I start a paint project until I get to about mid-way…then I just can’t wait to finish.

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *