The Pike

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http://angam.ang.univie.ac.at/LiveMiss/stlouis/slwf1904.htm

-"Pike" aka "Coney Island of the West"
-street mile long, lined with amusements, more varied, more elaborate, and more costly than aany other expostition
-In famous street "Cowboys Shooting Up A Western Town" fifty entertainments had been installed
-army of attendants cared for these expoditions
-during night exhibit palaces were closed; the throng was on the Pike
-during the night people took stroll on the Pike to see life and motion and light, to hear bands