Chutes Park

He began weekly variety shows in a small pavilion, brought in animals for display, and planted an orange grove.

The park featured such rides as a roller coaster, a chutes water slide that dropped riders in boats from a 75-foot (23 m) tower into a manmade lake, and a miniature railroad.

The site also included, at various times, such exotic diversions as a seal pond, ostriches, House of Trouble, and Cave of the Winds.

By 1900, the baseball diamond was completed on the northern end of the park (Washington bordering the third base line), with a team to play in the new California League.

It was replaced by what the newspapers termed a "new" Washington Park in 1911,[2] which had been built just south and east of the old one, and overlaying both the old outfield and the former waterslide area.