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Luna Park was an amusement park in Cleveland, Ohio, USA, from 1905 to 1929.[1] Constructed and owned by Frederick Ingersoll, the park occupied a hilly 35-acre site bounded by Woodland Avenue, Woodhill, Mt. Carmel, and East 110th Street and included roller coasters, carousels, a fun house, a Ferris wheel, a roller rink, a shoot-the-chutes ride, a concert shell, a dance hall, bumper cars, and a stadium (unofficially called "Luna Bowl") in which American football and baseball were played.[2][3]
The Cleveland Panthers of the first American Football League and (after the dismantling of the amusement rides had begun) Negro League baseball teams Cleveland Stars (1932), Cleveland Giants (1933), and Cleveland Red Sox (1934) each played their home games at Luna Bowl.[4] On December 12, 1938, the last vestige of the park, the skating rink, was destroyed by fire. In 1940, the Woodhill Homes housing development was built on the park site.
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Coordinates: 41°29′23″N 81°36′42″W / 41.48972, -81.61167
