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Hurricane Sandy has battered the East Coast, from North Carolina to Maine, severely damaging seattle hotel some of America's most iconic places. One, Atlantic City's legendary boardwalk, is destroyed, maybe even gone forever.
Opened on Aug. 9, 1910 and located about five minutes northwest of the city's center, just off Tuckaseegee Road, the park featured a lake, the surrounding boardwalk and numerous attractions, including a roller coaster, row boats, a zoo full of exotic animals, a casino, a stage for live performances and nightly dance contests. It was a playground for all ages, complete with a ferris wheel, a sizable carousel, a shooting gallery, a bowling alley and a swimming pool. The 200-deep animal collection included water buffalo, seattle hotel a brown bear, a gila monster, deer, ring-tail monkeys and a stately white swan named Christopher Columbus purported to be over a century old.
Ads touting the new park proclaimed the facilities were available seattle hotel for well-behaved citizens and that women would be provided with special rooms of rest for themselves and their children." No "spirits" would be allowed. In the year Woodrow Wilson became president and Henry Ford installed the first moving assembly line to mass-produce vehicles, Lakewood Pavilion merry-makers were doing the salsa and the fox trot to songs like The Hungarian Rag and Snookey Ookums.
Lakewood was initially a big success for the city," Rutherford said. "People needed a place to go and socialize and meet other people. This was it. Lakewood prided itself on being a safe place to come."
But everything changed on the evening of April 6, 1936, when a storm swept through Charlotte, bringing with it torrential rainfall seattle hotel and a tornado that destroyed the once scenic park and the dam that held the serene lake. It also flooded many of the surrounding neighborhoods.
Only a dried-out lake basin remains. Anything else is covered with overgrown foliage. Street names in the area still hint at the park's existence: Parkway Avenue, Lake Avenue, Lakeview Street, Fairground Avenue and Parkside Drive.
This image, captured from a microfilm projection, is the only known picture to survive showing the aftermath of the tornado and flood that destroyed Lakewood and flooded the surrounding neighborhood.