![A Thompson Gravity Switchback Railway (an early form of a roller coaster) in front of the Arcadia Hotel, Santa Monica Beach California (ca. 1890). : r/TheWayWeWere A Thompson Gravity Switchback Railway (an early form of a roller coaster) in front of the Arcadia Hotel, Santa Monica Beach California (ca. 1890). : r/TheWayWeWere](https://external-preview.redd.it/O2ftZ9FuRvYuMC1mNpJ2Crm3l65omrjSkptACABdItE.jpg?auto=webp&s=fbf796d80debf5c306b3aa8742b4c3195d5fd431)
A Thompson Gravity Switchback Railway (an early form of a roller coaster) in front of the Arcadia Hotel, Santa Monica Beach California (ca. 1890). : r/TheWayWeWere
![Early Roller Coasters - 1870 - 1886 LaMarcus Thompson did NOT invent or build the first roller coaster in America Early Roller Coasters - 1870 - 1886 LaMarcus Thompson did NOT invent or build the first roller coaster in America](https://www.westland.net/coneyisland/articles/images/CircularRailwayDrawing-Small2.jpg)
Early Roller Coasters - 1870 - 1886 LaMarcus Thompson did NOT invent or build the first roller coaster in America
HISTORY - On #ThisDayInHistory 1884, the first roller coaster in America opens at Coney Island, in Brooklyn, New York. Known as a switchback railway, it was the brainchild of LaMarcus Thompson, traveled
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