Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Circa 1921 by Howard D. Woodson/Architectural Engineer, John H. Paynter/Writer, Sherman H. Dudley/Theater Magnate, and other investors within the Black-owned Universal Development and Company- during legal segregation.
Located in the Washington D.C. Deanwood neighborhood (50th & Hayes St)... Suburban Gardens, the city's only amusement park, opened emcompassing seven to nine acres. For 10 cents, the Black-owned and operated park offered a wide range of attractions such as the carousel, tilt- a-whirl, deep dipper roller coaster, skee-ball, miniature railway, ferris wheel, and swimming pool etc. An immediate success from opening day! The dance pavillion brought in the jazz likes of Duke Ellington and Cab Calloway. The park expanded to 20 acres and held a two decade run before closing its doors in the 1940s.
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