Word: ruggieri
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...races or lion-Christian munch-ins; of the 18th century Londoners who visited Vauxhall Gardens to goggle at fireworks and take in country music; and of the Parisians who in 1817 rode the original shoot-the-chute (it was called saut du Niagara) or gasped at balloon ascents at Ruggieri's fêtes champêtres. Some parkgoers today recall grandparents' tales of the great 1893 Chicago Exposition, which introduced the Ferris wheel; their parents may have courted at Coney Island...