It was one of the first looping roller coasters to operate in North America, and it was designed and built by noted inventor Lina Beecher.

Loop the Loop was designed in 1904 by engineer and inventor Lina Beecher who was a supervisor at the American Railway Company.

Beecher had previously designed the wooden Flip Flap Railway at Paul Boyton's Sea Lion Park on Coney Island, New York, but that coaster's circular loop produced excessive g-forces on its riders.

[2] The coaster sat near the park's dancing pavilion.

While the ride had a considerably more mild experience than Beecher's original Flip Flap Railway, it was not popular and it attracted few repeat riders.