Carnival Court Amusement Park - 1920

Carnival Court "in its last days" as noted in the 1920 publication of the Buffalo Historical Society. The amusement park, located at the corner of Main and Jefferson Streets, was previously known as Athletic Park. By 1920, it had been closed for a number of years and "stripped of all buildings."

To read more of Western New York's "Pleasure Palaces," see the Summer/Fall 2003 issue of Western New York Heritage magazine.

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