Delmar Gardens

Delmar Garden of Oklahoma City was an amusement park in Oklahoma City that operated from 1902 to 1910. After the emergence of New York's Coney Island, the fad of waterside amusement parks graced with wooden boardwalks spread across the country. Although Oklahoma City was only founded in 1889, civic leaders were eager to provide similar facilities in Oklahoma Territory. John Sinopoulo and Joseph Marre, who trained at the original Delmar Garden in St. Louis, built the park on the east bank of the North Canadian River on property owned by civic leader and developer Charles Colcord's Colcord Park Corporation. The park was located on about 40 acres (160, 000 m2) between Reno Avenue, Western Avenue, and the river. Today's Wheeler Park constituted the southeast boundary of the complex. The park boasted of a 3,000-seat theater, a dance pavilion, a horse racing track, baseball field, swimming pool, exotic animal zoo, railway, a boardwalk beer garden, amusement rides, a penny arcade, a floating wedding chapel, and a hotel and restaurant. The Gardens and Park were served by the city's extensive trolley service, which brought visitors from suburbs miles away in a matter of minutes. Trolleys arrived at the Delmar Park station with its elevated platform and bridge to the dance pavilion and other structures, all designed by local architect William A. Wells. Kansas-born Wells had studied archit

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