A Look Back at the Coney Island
of Yesteryear: A MOFH Video Presentation
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A Look Back at the Coney Island
of Yesteryear: A MOFH Video Presentation
See Boarding School Girls Visit Coney Island in 1905! See "Fatty" Arbuckle at Luna Park in 1917!
See the
Coney Island of the 1940s!
See the Coney Island Freak Show!!
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Top left: Tag along with a group of young ladies from Miss Knapp's Select School as they spend the day at Coney Island in 1905. From YouTube. Top right: Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle and Buster Keaton in the film "Coney Island." The clip shown features Beautiful Luna Park in 1917. From YouTube. Middle left: For many decades the beach and boardwalk at Coney Island in Brooklyn, New York was the place to be on a hot summer day. There were also side shows and amusement parks with plenty of thrill rides, not to mention Nathan's famous hot dogs. See a YouTube video of the Coney Island of the 1940s and get a sense of how our family members who lived in the New York metro area spent their time more than five decades ago. From YouTube. Middle right: Here you will see some of the Coney Island "freak show," which includes fire eaters, dancing girls and more, cir 1940s and 1950s. From YouTube.
Bottom: "Coney Island, U.S.A."
(1952): "An impressionistic view of a day in the life of Coney
Island from the desertion in the early morning to the hysteria at
midnight. Commentary by Henry Morgan." From YouTube and
www.weirdovideo.com. |
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