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Title
Cedar
Point
Band
Photograph
Subject
Arts and Entertainment
Immigration and Ethnic Heritage
Bands
Musicians
Music
Place
Sandusky (Ohio)
Erie County (Ohio)
Description
This
photograph
shows
the
Cedar
Point
Band
in
Sandusky
,
Ohio
. The
band
organized
in
1890
.
Pictured
here are
(front
row
,
left
to
right)
Maxwell
Godfrey
,
J
.
Bolton
,
Professor
Pueringer
,
Fred
Baumann
;
(second
row
,
left
to
right)
Pete
Malone
,
Ed
Pelding
,
M
.
McAdams
;
(back
row)
Joseph
Bock
,
Max
Wintrich
. The
photograph
measures
9.5
"
x
6
"
(24.13
x
15.24
cm)
. The
band
was
one
of
many
attractions
at
Cedar
Point
.
Cedar
Point's
history
as an
entertainment
venue
began
in
1870
,
when
German
immigrant
Louis
Zistel
opened
a
beer
garden
and
bathhouse
.
Men
and
women
bathed
in
Lake
Erie
,
separated
from
each
other
by
screens
, and
picnicked
in the
meadows
and
woods
. In the
1880s
,
William
Slackford
and
Benjamin
F
.
Dwelle
gained
possession
of the
peninsula
. They
took
advantage
of the
large
beach
and
steamboat
service
to the
resort
made
it
a
popular
vacation
destination
. In
1888
,
Dwelle
partnered
with
other
Cedar
Point
landowners
Louis
Adolph
,
Adam
Stoll
,
Jacob
Kuebler
and
Charles
Baetz
to
build
the
Grand
Pavilion
. The
majestic
structure
housed
an
auditorium
,
dining
room
, and
bowling
alley
.
Under
the
direction
of
George
A.
Boeckling
and the
Cedar
Point
Pleasure
Resort
Company
, the
park
added
a
roller
coaster
, the
Breakers
Hotel
, a
1200-seat
Opera
House
, and
employee
dormitories
.
Vacationers
flocked
to
Cedar
Point
to
see
vaudeville
acts
and
ride
the
roller
coaster
.
Date of Original
1880
circa
Collection
Sandusky
Bands
and
Orchestras
Source
Audiovisual material
Submitting Institution
Sandusky Library/Follett House Museum
Rights
For rights and reproduction requests, go to the Ohio Historical Society's Audiovisual and Graphic Reproduction Services page at
http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/audiovis/photodup.html;
For rights and reproduction requests, go to the Ohio Historical Society's Audiovisual and Graphic Reproduction Services page at
http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/audiovis/photodup.html;
Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to
http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
Type
StillImage
File Name
Om519_974618_006.tif
Image Height
2461
Image Width
3807
File Size
1218.676 KB
Format
picture
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