THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON Part 2

Previously, the term ‘luna park’ had been used for any kind of fair, outdoor carnival, or festival; the public would describe these events as ‘a luna park’. But with the arrest and imprisonment of Lionel Morris, the various showmen who collectively made up the Luna Park at Cottesloe Beach, with their games and rides, disbanded and sold what they could.

Almost a decade passed before the concept reappeared in the Western Australian media to open and run another Luna Park. The Scarborough Development Company was formed in 1938 as a civic board appointed by a conglomerate of private investors, civic leaders and local government to assist in transformaing Scarborough from a backwater into a fully-fledged town. Civic plans had been on the drawing board by property investors for well over a decade. Between the