Join the City of West Hollywood’s Arts Division (www.weho.org/arts) for a WeHo Reads event featuring the launch of a new book Beverly Park: The Kiddieland that Inspired Walt Disney and an opening reception for an exhibition in the West Hollywood Library featuring photographs from the book.

Beverly Park holds a special place in the hearts of local Los Angeles area natives who frequented this special amusement park from 1943 to 1974. Located at the corner of Beverly and La Cienega Boulevards on the border of West Hollywood where the Beverly Center now stands, it was a unique experience that touched the lives of anyone who ever went there. It was best known for its canopied birthday parties, but it was just as popular for the park's entertaining thrill rides, celebrity sightings and as a place where divorced parents took their kids on weekends. Beverly Park had a magnetic appeal to it, resulting in generations of families going there to enjoy the carnival-like atmosphere, complete with Ferris wheel, merry-go-round, boat ride, roller coaster, and haunted castle, all the while captivating children from all walks of life into coming back, week after week, for more than 30 years.

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CONTACT: Michael Che, 323-848-6377, mche@weho.org