Luna Park (Melbourne, Australia): April 6th, 2005

Luna Park in Melbourne on a busy Wednesday afternoon. The place was packed (school break), so the atmosphere was really terrific. Tough to imagine that there used to be hundreds (thousands?) of little parks like this dotted across the US. This place really is all about the fun, very different from the faceless corprate amusement park chains we get now.

Luna Park has quite a good web-site.

Please check out my rather poor movies of the great Scenic Railway in action.

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