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Carnival Park opened in 1907 and closed in 1909. This seems odd for a spot that claimed to have just one rival in its awesome-ness: Coney Island in New York. Indeed, Carnival Park’s amusement array was enviable, if you were lucky enough to have visited in the two-year span it operated. It offered coasters, a Double Whirl Ferris wheel, a moving stairway ride, a living carousel and the biggest damn roller rink this side of the Mississippi.