Betty Coed and the Debs

Betty Coed and the Debs performing at Joyland Club in February 1940.  They often performed during the winter months when it was more difficult to draw bigger, national acts.


-Lafayette Studios photographs

2013 Women's History Month exhibit by Deirdre Scaggs

Learn-To-Swim Course at Joyland

Free swimming lessons offered by The Lexington Herald-Leader at Joyland Amusement Park, 1950 June 6. Joyland Park operated from 1923 until 1964. The area it occupied is currently a residential neighborhood that retained the Joyland name, northeast of the Lexington downtown center.


-John C. Wyatt Lexington Herald-Leader photographs.

2013 Black History Month exhibit by Reinette Jones