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📅 Slide history🇺🇸 Minnesota, USA1923

The Water-Toboggan Slide

Herbert Sellner built a wooden ramp on a lake. You sat on a wooden sled and skimmed across the water for 50 cents. He later invented the Tilt-A-Whirl ride!Herbert Sellner of Faribault, Minnesota, builds a 30 ft-high, 100 ft wooden track that skims riders on wooden toboggans across a lake at 50 cents a ride. Sold across the US, Canada, Switzerland, Jamaica and Sweden. Sellner invents the Tilt-A-Whirl three years later.

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His slides were sold as far away as Jamaica and Sweden.