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Rare & Vintage: Coney Island Sideshow Banner by Dan Casola

Posted in art, Artifacts, tagged , , , , , , , on November 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Vintage sideshow banners painted by Coney Island’s Dan Casola are hard to come by. In fact we’d never seen a Casola banner until we discovered The Armless Wonder–Lot #459 in the Mosby & Co. online auction of the late Bob McCord’s circus collection. We were wowed. In the late 90s, we had a cottage industry [...]

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Moments in Time: Artist Eric March’s Coney Island

Posted in art, tagged , , , , , , , on October 12, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Astroland Park, Watercolor by Eric March. From the exhibition “Moments in Time: Queens to Coney Island” at Park Slope Gallery, October 16 – December 31. The roof of Gregory & Paul’s, now known as Paul’s Daughter, looked empty this summer without the iconic Astroland Rocket. I kept having to remind myself: The Rocket is safe [...]

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Traveler: Carnival Rides as Public Art at Toronto’s Nuit Blanche

Posted in Travel, tagged , , , , on October 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Wild Ride 2009 by Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan. Performance Art/Multimedia Installation on Bay Street, Toronto at Nuit Blanche, October 3, 2009. Rides owned by Funland Outdoor Amusements. Photos courtesy of Scotiabank Nuit Blanche Now that the summer is over in Coney, we have time to make good on our promise to cover not only [...]

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