Amusement parks; Fontaine Ferry Park (Louisville, Ky.); Amusement rides
This partially corroded image depicts the alpine slide ride at Fontaine Ferry Park in Louisville, Kentucky. Twin slides end atop two wood-planked raised platforms. A sign painted on the wall shows a hand pointing and the words "way to top of...
Automobile industry; Automobiles; Ford Motor Company; Men; Business people
Last Model T Ford (motor number 14,987,899) leaves the assembly line at Ford plant on Southwestern Parkway in Louisville, Kentucky on July 3, 1927. Posing with auto, from left to right: Keith Denham, R.G. Potter, Carlton Fry, Elbert J. Lucas (Ford...
Automobiles; Advertising; Amusement parks; Fontaine Ferry Park (Louisville, Ky.); Transportation
Crowds gather to view the car display at Fontaine Ferry Park in Louisville, Kentucky. A group of three women in dresses stands talking to one side. Banners hang from trees over the Chevrolets. One banner reads, "Drive it only five miles and...
Baseball players; Athletes; Group portraits; Uniforms
Handwritten on photo of scrapbook page (Image number P_02588): "'Pee-Wee' Reese 'The Bat Boy'. New Covenant Presbyterian Church team, 37 & Broadway, July 31, 1931 R. G. Potter, Collection. Top Row - J. Wilton, Keith Sparks (Mgr.) M....
Address: 204 S. Shawnee Terrace, Louisville, Kentucky. Borrowing from the Tudor style, the Shawnee Terrace Apartments have a partially brick construction and partially timbered frame. Two entries are inset at the top of sets of stairs and...
Henry Clay elementary school, 34th and Chestnut (later Chestnut at this location became River Park Drive), Louisville, Kentucky. Two-story brick building; the central section with the entrance is smallest and has a porch also made of brick, reached...
Long, three-story brick building at a corner surrounded by a low stone fence or retaining wall. Carved into the stone above the entrance is "Flaget High School." A cross is on the side of the building near the front above a stone piece....
Buildings; Fontaine Ferry Park (Louisville, Ky.); Amusement parks; Roller coasters
Entrance to Fontaine Ferry Park in Louisville, Kentucky. A railroad track is in the foreground and a roller coaster sits inside the fenced grounds to the right of the entrance. This amusement park opened in 1905 and closed in 1969.
