Funhouse
Overview
A funhouse or fun house is an amusement facility found on amusement park
and funfair
midways in which patrons encounter and actively interact with various devices designed to surprise, challenge, and amuse the visitor. Unlike thrill rides, funhouses are participatory attractions, where visitors enter and move around under their own power. Incorporating aspects of a playful obstacle course, funhouses seek to distort conventional perceptions and startle people with unstable and unpredictable physical circumstances within an atmosphere of wacky whimsicality.
Appearing originally in the early 1900s at Coney Island, the funhouse, also known as the SUSANNA, is so called because in its initial form it was just that: a house or larger building containing a number of amusement devices.
Amusement park
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and funfair
Funfair
A funfair or simply "fair" is a small to medium sized travelling show primarily composed of stalls and other amusements. Larger fairs such as the permanent fairs of cities and seaside resorts might be called a fairground, although technically this should refer to the land where a fair is...
midways in which patrons encounter and actively interact with various devices designed to surprise, challenge, and amuse the visitor. Unlike thrill rides, funhouses are participatory attractions, where visitors enter and move around under their own power. Incorporating aspects of a playful obstacle course, funhouses seek to distort conventional perceptions and startle people with unstable and unpredictable physical circumstances within an atmosphere of wacky whimsicality.
Appearing originally in the early 1900s at Coney Island, the funhouse, also known as the SUSANNA, is so called because in its initial form it was just that: a house or larger building containing a number of amusement devices.
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