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{{toplink|url=http://eastfallshistoricalsociety. | {{toplink|url=http://eastfallshistoricalsociety.org/then-and-now-2015#b0015478-5bc6-4ee0-97e3-d98cf6499b77|name=eastfallshistoricalsociety.org/then-and-now-2015#b00...77}}[[File:WoodsidePark.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Woodside Park.]]Fallsers (East Falls residents) loved '''Woodside Park''', '''a Coney Island-like amusement park in West Fairmount Park''' built by the Fairmount Park Transportation Company in 1897. | ||
Like Chestnut Hill and Willow Grove Parks, Woodside was built along a trolley route. Ten miles of trolley tracks surrounded it. | Like Chestnut Hill and Willow Grove Parks, Woodside was built along a trolley route. Ten miles of trolley tracks surrounded it. | ||
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Fallsers (East Falls residents) loved Woodside Park, a Coney Island-like amusement park in West Fairmount Park built by the Fairmount Park Transportation Company in 1897.
Like Chestnut Hill and Willow Grove Parks, Woodside was built along a trolley route. Ten miles of trolley tracks surrounded it.
Woodside Park closed in 1955, but memories are still fresh and evocative.
Note: The above descriptive information came from the East Falls Historical Society.