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Title: Shooting the chutes
Contributor: Dressler, Albert
Date Created and/or Issued: [between 1895 and 1906]
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
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Description: 2009-0618.
In: San Francisco and vicinity : [photograph album]; vol. 4. Marine views, Sutro Park, Chutes, Golden Gate Park, pg. 34.
View of the boat ride "shoot-the chutes" in the Chutes amusement park in San Francisco. A flat bottomed boat jets across a pond next to a large swing ride, and crowds of people are seen throughout.
The Chutes at Tenth and Fulton opened in 1902. Included "Down the Flumes" boat ride, the Circle Swing, Pavilion Theater, Mystic Mirror Maze.
Type: image
Format: Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photographic print ; image 3 1/4 x 5 1/2 in.
Identifier: (C)001392614CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVW-5959
Language: English
Subject: Amusement parks--California--San Francisco
Amusement rides--California--San Francisco
Boats--California--San Francisco
San Francisco (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Photograph albums
Place: California
San Francisco
San Francisco (Calif.)

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