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In 1890, Captain Fred Pabst purchased the Milwaukee Shooting Club's park at 3rd and Burleigh Streets and turned the property into an Amusement Park. He added a 15,000-foot roller coaster, a dance hall and fun house and other amusements. Also band concerts were held daily during the summer months.

Pabst Park had a "Figure Eight Toboggan" Roller Coaster that opened in 1904 and closed..unknown... Philadelphia Toboogan Company...