See Boarding School Girls Visit Coney Island in 1905!
See "Fatty" Arbuckle at
Luna Park in 1917!
See the Coney Island of the 1940s!
Hear about the History of Coney Island in
Yiddish (with English subtitles)!
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.
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.
Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle and Buster Keaton in the film "Coney
Island." The clip shown features Beautiful Luna Park in 1917.
From YouTube.
"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.
A short 2012 Post-Sandy film about Coney
Island (in Yiddish, with English subtitles), created by the folks at
the Yiddish Forward newspaper in New York. A mixture of old and more
recent footage, it discusses the history of Coney Island, etc. Found
on YouTube.