Two small photo's that came in an album I bought. Love the prices on the sandwiches, a hamburger for a nickel is pretty hard to find anymore. There was nothing in the album to identify the location but if you look there is a pennant on the right side of one that reads Russell Point. Russel Point is a town in Ohio and a little googling tells us that there was near there a Sandy Beach Amusement Park near there at Indian Lake. It was apparently a pretty big deal, nicknamed "Atlantic City of the West" and "Ohios Million Dollar Playground" at one time. It existed from the early 1900's through the seventies. Apparently starting in 1961 there were riots there on July fourth and the problems became a tradition, trouble brewing every year until the park was forced to shut down. I didn't search far enough to find out what the riots were about but it's all too bad.
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