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Outdoor Checkerboard

Other Name(s)	Giant Checkerboard
Type	Skill-Based Game Activity Space
Park Section	Unknown
Opened	1930
Closed	1937 (park closure)

An outdoor cement Outdoor Checkerboard, also known as the Giant Checkerboard, was added to Olentangy Park in 1930^[1]^[2] and contest matches were held for prizes until the park's final season in 1937.

References

↑ Cherrington, H. E. 1930. "Looking Backward at Park and Forward to Film Season." The Columbus Dispatch, November 9, 1930. Page 6-F.
↑ "Olentangy Receipts Almost Up to 1929." The Billboard, Vol. 42. Issue 44. November 1, 1930. Page 61. Accessed through the Internet Archive.

Attractions

Attractions
Attractions	Amphitheater Arcadia Archery Range Arena Automatic Vaudeville Baby Farm Band Shell (1) Band Shell (2) Bandstand (North) Bandstand (South) Ball Grounds Outdoor Ballroom Bathing Pavilion Billiards Birdland Boathouse Bowling Alley Box Ball Alley Canoe Club Coney Island Casino (1) Casino (2) Cave of the Winds Outdoor Checkerboard Crazy House Creation Crystal Maze Dancing Pavilion (1) Dancing Pavilion (2) Egyptian Mystery Fair Japan Fantasma Flea Circus Floral Conservatory The Fun House Gypsy Camp Hereafter Hindoo Mystery Horseshoe Courts House of Trouble House That Jack Built Infant Incubator Igorrote Village Japanese Ballroom Johnstown Flood Joy Mill Kinetoscope Knock the Barrel Down Laughing Gallery Mickey Mouse Town Millrace and Fish Pond Moonlight Gardens Motion Picture Building Motordrome Museum of Ornithology Mysterious Sensation Mystic Castle Oriental Palmistry Palace of Illusions Palm Garden Panama Canal Exhibit Penny Arcade (Colonnade) Penny Arcade (Midway) Photo Booth Photographic Gallery (2) Photographic Gallery (3) Playground Rifle Range Roller Skating Rink (Building) Roller Skating Rink (Portable) Scenic Temple Shooting Gallery Shuffle Boards Snake Den Stereopticon Views Swimming Pool Temple of Mirth Theater Theatorium The Third Degree Tom Thumb Miniature Golf Tours of the World Whirl-o-Ball Wonderland Zoological Gardens
Attraction Types	Activity Spaces Animal Attractions Arcades Fortune Telling Funhouses Exhibitions Music and Performance Skill-Based Games Sports
Designers	Dick Ashbaugh Hollis G. Conrad George C. Hale R. L. Kenyon Kushibiki Yumindo Frank L. Packard C. Rarick J. W. Zarro
Manufacturers	The Automatic Vaudeville Company J. M. Naughton R. L. Kenyon Company Yost & Packard Zarro Amusement Device Company

Park Sections

Park Sections
South	Floral Conservatory Merry-Go-Round (2) Museum of Ornithology Park Entrance Zoological Gardens
Colonnade	Billiards Bowling alleys Egyptian Mystery Hindoo Mystery House That Jack Built Infant Incubator Knock the Barrel Down Palace of Illusions Panama Canal Exhibit Penny Arcade (Colonnade)
The Grove	Ball Grounds Bathing Pavilion Boathouse Bowling alleys Casino (2) Igorrote Village Picnic Grounds Water Toboggan
Center	Airplanes Archery Range Bandstand (South) Big Eli Birdland Bowling alleys Grand Carousel Circle Swing Crystal Maze Dancing Pavilion (1) Dodgem Electric Autos Ferris Wheel (4) Flight Tutor (1) Hey-Dey Kinetoscope Loop-the-Loop Merry-Go-Round (1) Merry-Go-Round De Luxe Moonlight Gardens Oriental Palmistry Outdoor Ballroom Photo Booth Photographic Gallery (3) Playground Red Devil Roller Skating Rink (Building) Shooting Gallery Stereopticon Views Theater
Midway	Arcadia Automatic Vaudeville Billiards Bowling alleys Box Ball Alley Coney Island Crazy House Dancing Pavilion (2) Flight Tutor (2) The Fun House Johnstown Flood Joy Mill Laughing Gallery Love's Voyage Miniature Railway Mysterious Sensation Mystic Castle Ye Olde Mill (1) Ye Olde Mill (2) Penny Arcade (Midway) Rifle Range Roller Skating Rink (Portable) Shooting Gallery Temple of Mirth Wonderland
North & Northwest	Amphitheater Arena Band Shell (1) Band Shell (2) Bandstand (North) Ferris Wheel (1) Figure 8 Fair Japan Motion Picture Building Motordrome Ocean Wave Over-the-Top Photographic Gallery (2) Pony and Camel Track The Racer Scenic Coaster Sea-Land-Whirl Shoot-the-Chutes Theatorium Tours of the World Tumble Bug The Whip Whirlwind
Other or Unknown	Baby Animal Farm Cave of the Winds Creation Double Whirl Down and Out Fantasma Ferris Wheel (2) Flea Circus Gypsy Camp Horseshoe Courts House of Trouble Japanese Ballroom Kiss Waltz Lindy-Loop Merry-Go-Round (3) Mickey Mouse Town Millrace and Fish Pond Outdoor Checkerboard Palm Garden Scenic Temple Shuffle Boards Snake Den Swan The Third Degree Tom Thumb Miniature Golf Whirl-o-Ball Whirling Wheel

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