For other amusement parks of the same name, see Luna Park; for other uses of the phrase, see Luna Park (disambiguation)
Melbourne's Luna Park is a historic amusement park located on the foreshore of Port Phillip Bay in St Kilda, Victoria, which is an inner suburb of Melbourne, Australia. It opened on December 13th, 1912 and has been operating almost continuously ever since. It is the first of two Luna Parks still operating in Australia; the other...
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For other amusement parks of the same name, see Luna Park; for other uses of the phrase, see Luna Park (disambiguation)
Melbourne's Luna Park is a historic amusement park located on the foreshore of Port Phillip Bay in St Kilda, Victoria, which is an inner suburb of Melbourne, Australia. It opened on December 13th, 1912 and has been operating almost continuously ever since. It is the first of two Luna Parks still operating in Australia; the other is on Sydney Harbour.
The park was developed by American showman J D Williams, in company with the three Phillips brothers (reputedly from Seattle), who had all had experience in the amusement and cinema industry in the US. Their Chief Engineer and main designer was Englishman T H Eslick, who, according to the opening day brochure, had worked on numerous parks around the world. Williams returned to the US in 1913 to help found First National Films which subsequently became Warner Brothers. The Phillips brothers stayed on and ran the park...
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