Woodside Park Tilted-Car Ride
A popular Woodside Park ride in the postwar era. The happy faces are White. Though legally the rides were open to all, Woodside Park was well-known for its notorious Jim Crow practices in places like the rollerdrome (picketing resulted in its closure) and the Crystal Pool, which was not integrated until 1952.
18 May 1950
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Photographer Dominic Pasquarella, Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, courtesy of Special Collections Research Center, Temple University Libraries, Philadelphia, PA