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Running through the center of the
park from the (then) front gate to the Gingerbread Fancy restaurant,
Dream Street was designed as the central avenue that would draw guests
into the the park |
| View from what would become the Front Gate, the first
of the four tent buildings is in place along a very muddy looking Dream
Street. The black building off to the left is the restroom
building, and a section of orange track for the Log Flume sits in the
mud awaiting placement atop the supports |
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Workers stand on Dream Street in front of the future
site of the Flying Wave. In the background you can see
streetlights are already in place despite the fact the street is still
unpaved. The restroom building and Pretty Monster appear to
be complete at this point |
| As opening day draws nearer, the view from the Front
Gate shows the tent buildings looking nearly complete though the
concrete pavement has yet to be poured. The two wooden forms
in the foreground will be used to create footers for the large posts
that will hold the banner across the gates |
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Workers create wood forms around the hundreds of
trees lining Dream Street prior to the pouring of the concrete.
An effort was made to keep as many trees as possible to maintain the
forest feel of "The Enchanted Forest" and part of that effort involved
paving around the trees, with cutouts left where a porous paving
material was applied right up to the trunks, creating a hard surface
which could stand up to pedestrian traffic, yet allow water to get to
the tree roots and allow for growth |
| Workers pour the concrete walkways of Dream Street.
The reinforcing steel sitting at the left will be incorporated to create
a walkway that can stand up to years of pedestrian and vehicular
traffic. In the background a scaffold is in place on the Giant Wheel
as workers attach the lights |
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It's almost opening day, and Dream Street is fully
paved with the banners and streetlights in place. The large
expanses of grass would eventually be paved as walkways were crowded
when the park opened, and needed to be expanded |
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Construction Overview Page |
See Dream Street as it exists today |
