Billy Rose's Aquacade

The show featured Olympians Johnny Weissmuller, Eleanor Holm Jarret, Dick Degener, and other performers in a 5,000-seat amphitheater that could seat 2,000 diners.

[1] Dance bands such as Wayne King, Shep Fields, and Glen Gray and his Casa Loma Orchestra performed there.

The Art Deco 11,000 seat amphitheatre at the north end of Meadow Lake was designed by architects Sloan & Robertson.

[citation needed] In addition to Weissmuller and Holm, Gertrude Ederle, a Flushing, Queens resident and the first woman to swim the English Channel, appeared in the Aquacade in 1939.

In 1940, Aquacade also opened in San Francisco at the Golden Gate International Exposition where Esther Williams and Virginia Hopkins joined the show.