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Looking Back & Forward: Astroland Shrine on New Year’s Day 2009

Posted in history, tagged , , , , on December 30, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Last year at this time, we were mourning the loss of Coney Island’s Astroland Park and tending a little shrine on Astroland’s Boardwalk Gates. Here’s a look back at the Astroland Gate on New Year’s Day 2009 by Livvvvvvv via YouTube. The children’s voices are poignant… The memorial began the day after Christmas with our [...]

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Animation of the Day: Coney Island’s Luna Park at Night

Posted in history, Photo of the Day, tagged , , , , , , , on December 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Here’s a front seat view from Coney Island’s long-vanished Shoot-the-Chutes (1895-1944), originally built for Sea Lion Park. Our friends at Clicksypics have transformed a 1904 Underwood & Underwood stereo card of “Brilliant Luna Park at Night, Coney Island, New York’s great pleasure resort” into an animation of Coney Island’s Electric Eden. By 1907, Luna Park [...]

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Coney Island School Bus Lot Has Gotta Go! The Circus Is Coming

Posted in circus, News, tagged , , , , , , on December 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Which would you rather see this summer in Coney Island? Row upon row of permanently parked yellow school buses? Or Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey Circus’s Illuscination under the Big Top? We thought so… Today, Ringling’s magical new show starring “thrillusionist” David DaVinci, an aviary of macaws, doves, and free flying parrots, a trio of [...]

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