Delmar Garden - Oklahoma City, OK
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N 35° 27.753 W 097° 31.974
14S E 633122 N 3925329
Served by Oklahoma City's trolley service, Delmar Garden was a large amusement park which flourished between 1903 and 1910.
Waymark Code: WMB1FG
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 03/23/2011
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Delmar Garden was a popular amusement park which covered about 140 acres and contained such activities as a 3000 seat theater, a dance pavilion, horse racing track, baseball field, swimming pool, beer garden, amusement rides, a hotel and restaurant and a floating wedding chapel.
When the park closed in 1910, the theater building continued to attract citizens with its fresh produce market on the first floor and the second floor used for concerts, dances, boxing matches, and later an antique mall.
A granite marker alongside the building was placed by the Oklahoma Historical Society in 1980 to commemorate this amusement park. It reads:
"DELMAR GARDEN / This marker is located in the heart of the area where the largest and most lavish amusement park in the history of Oklahoma once stood. Delmar Garden extended westward from Reno and Western, and covered 140 acres. It opened in 1903 and operated through the summer of 1910. It was developed by John and Peter Sinopoulo. The Sinopoulo brothers later became the city's principal theater owners. Delmar Garden was host to many regional and national meetings, including the National Editorial Convention and an early attempt at a constitutional convention. The park boasted an outdoor theater seating twelve hundred people, a scenic railway, dance hall, beer garden, swimming pool, baseball park and a race track."
County: Oklahoma County
Record Address::
311 S. Klein Avenue
Oklahoma City, OK US
73108
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Date Erected: 1980
Sponsor (Who put it there): Oklahoma Historical Society
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