Luna Park, Schenectady

[2][3][4][5] Constructed around the Grand View Hotel (built and opened by Jacob Rupert in 1901),[4] the park was similar to Ingersoll's other Luna Parks in which it was a trolley park with roller coasters, picnic pavilions, carousels, a fun house, a roller rink, a concert shell, a dance hall, a midway, a Whip, and a shoot-the-chutes ride which presented itself at the park entrance adjacent to a station of the Van Vranken electric trolley line.

[2][6][7] Roughly seven decades before the Skycoaster rides that now dot various United States amusement parks, Luna/Rexford Park featured an aerial swing ride.

Ingersoll's shaky finances (he was in bankruptcy court twice between 1908 and 1911) forced him to sell the popular park to Dolle in 1912.

[5] In 1925, the Grand View Hotel was destroyed by a fire, but the park stayed open for the season.

[2][5] Some of the pilings for the Saratoga trolley line still remain in the Mohawk River.