Fern Brook’s Starlight dance hall accommodated 2,500 but sometimes so many crowded into it that dancing was impossible.  It also maintained a dress code at the dance hall which may have made it less competitive with other area and Lake dance halls. 

The dance hall witnessed the transformation from the Roaring Twenties to the Dance Band Era - and also Prohibition and the Great Depression.  On Friday, May 28, 1926, area newspaper men were given a preview of the park with a free lunch and music - and access to the rides to promote favorable publicity. next