Good news from the Coney Island Boardwalk! As it turns out, the gut rehab of old-timey Boardwalk businesses does not mean the complete loss of gritty authenticity and vernacular signage. The other day, we were delighted to see that Hot Corn, Fried Shrimp and Shish-Ka-Bob have survived and are alive and on the inside at [...]
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Up for Auction: Collection of Carnival Knockdown Dolls
Posted in Auction, art, Carnival Games, Artifacts, tagged carnival, cat rack, Americana, folk art, outsider art, Knockdown dolls, Ron Rakaseder on April 10, 2012 | 2 Comments »
The Americana collector Ron Rakaseder had a passion for carnival knockdown dolls and wooden ball toss figures from the late 19th and early to mid 20th centuries. Once featured on the PBS program “Find!” with the Keno brothers of “Antiques Roadshow,” the Ron Rakaseder Collection of American Arcade & Carnival Memorabilia is now up for [...]
Coney Island Murals by Street Artists Await Their Fate
Posted in art, Food, Redevelopment, tagged Coney Island, mural, ND'A, NO Longer Empty, OverUnder, Plaza Mexico Dona Zita, restaurant, street art, Thor Equities on March 2, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Last summer, street artists OverUnder and ND’A painted murals for the restaurant Plaza Mexico Doña Zita on the Bowery and Henderson Walk in Coney Island. Giant tropical flowers blossomed on a fence on the Henderson side of Thor Equities’ construction site and brought a garden of street art to Doña Zita’s. Unlike some of its [...]
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