Parks built as carnival, grown to full?

Are there any parks that were built as fairs, or temporary parks like festivals or carnivals that eventually bred into full amusement parks? If so, can anyone give me the story?
Thanks!

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La Ronde started out at the '68 (i think thats the year) worlds fair. The land it was built on is acutally and extension of the island in the st lawrence seaway. They filled in the seaway to build the island.

Is that how part of Coney Island NY started? I mean one of the parks? I think Steeplechase was built out of leftovers from a world's fair. Can anybody help me here?

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I'm pretty sure that's how SFKK started. It's on the Kentucky State Fairgrounds.

LaRonde was built (or parts of it anyways) for the Exhibition but I thought it was in 1967. I could easily be wrong but didn't the Montreal Expos (baseball) start in 1967 and I thought it was the year of the World's Fair (hence the name.)
I know at some point around 1976 LaRonde was called Man and His World also.

Den,
I think so too, but I can't be sure. Haven't been around long enough. But they way they open it up for the fair makes me think it started that way. Also makes me angry as a season pass holder... Why should I pay $6 for 7 tickets to ride Chang? But that's another story...

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We are the ones who wait in line for hours for a 45-second thrill, and consider it time well spent.

A lot of parks have intresting starts. Indiana beach was built like a year or so have lake shaffer and its sister lake was built in attempts to make resorts and stuff. Michigans adventure started out from a petting zoo. Coney Island was built by a poor broker that had a dream and a loan. We all know about walt disney.

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Jordon "the jackal" Dunham
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How do you define a "carnival type" park to a full fledged "amusement park"? To me, its when the park transforms from a strictly pay-per-ride park to an option of pay-per-ride and a P.O.P. park or obviously solely a P.O.P. park. The size and the number of rides really has nothing to do with it.

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