Describe White City Park and the Natatorium here.
White City was the name of an amusement park opened on Warm Springs Road (now Avenue)in 1907. There were many White City parks in the United States at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century named in connection with the amusement section at the Columbian Exhibition in Chicago in 1893. It had a rollercoaster, a carousel, a miniature railroad, a boating pond, a dance pavilion/roller rink, a photography studio, concession stands and a penny arcade. Boise's White City Park was built next to the Natatorium (indoor spa) that had been built in 1892 using the natural hot springs water from near the Old Penitentiary. There was a streetcar line that ran out to the Park and the Nat.
Information for this article came from History Along the Greenbelt by Jim Witherell
