Long before Six Flags and Disneyland, Lake Cliff was the place to be. In 1906, wealthy Oak Cliff native and promoter Charles Mangold built Beautiful Lake Cliff, which was billed as "The Southwest's Greatest Playground."
This park had everything, boasting the world's largest skating rink, The Casino as the largest theater in the South (seating 2500), the largest bathing house in the South (a floating natatorium), the largest carousel in the South (seeing a trend here?), a stadium to watch water acrobats from, and countless rides. Every night would then be concluded with fireworks. The most popular ride was Shoot the Chute, estimating that as many as 150,000 took the plunge in the opening summer of 1906. 
The park’s promoters boasted of Lake Cliff Park’s lighting displays as: “the most lavish, extraordinary, expensive, bountiful example of decorative and spectacular illumination, … a veritable fairyland, a city of dreams and enchantment, wherein the lights from tower and turret, arch and entrance, pillar and pilaster, dome and domicile, flash into dazzling iridescence. So lustrous and resplendent, so intense and brilliant is the consummation and ensemble, that it is visible for miles around.” The park's lighting display was not only an awsome sight to behold, but served as a fantastic attraction to the ever-curious and adventuresome public.
If interested, the full 40 page park brochure from 1906 can be read here