Coney Island
Collection by Ray Simmons • Last updated 8 days ago
The first great American amusement park.
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Collecting Shells, Manhattan Beach, Coney Island, 1885
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New York circa 1905. Coney Island - Luna Park promenade.
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Coney Island, New York, circa 1905. Dreamland at twilight.
Coney Island New York - ride the famed ferris wheel, the Wonder Wheel.
Coney Island Boardwalk
Coney Island Boardwalk
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Coney Island: entrance to the Zoo, c. 1900.
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So ends this sketchy, rudimentary overview I did for a documentary filmmaker 20 years ago. But next week this space will run my unpublished Village Voice interview with Horace Bullard on the reconstruction of Coney Island—that never happened. The sublime element of sleaze became more prominent through the 1950s and ’60s. There was further decay as property taxes rose with the minimum wage. Mom-and-pop rides and side-street spook houses across Surf Avenue cut costs on maintenance and…
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A fever dream of neon and noise, sticky carpet, ripped jeans, adolescent drama, and, most of all, the spaces where they all come together.
Instagram post by Jeffrey Milstein • Oct 16, 2015 at 5:45am UTC
460 Likes, 25 Comments - Jeffrey Milstein (@jeffreymilstein) on Instagram: “Flying over Coney Island last weekend of the summer. A magical play land #coneyisland…”
These incredible snaps capture New York beaches from 1880 to 1940
These blast from the past photos show how modest bathing suits got shorter and tighter as they morphed into the trunks and bikinis we know today.
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Luna Park, Coney Island, NY (1920-1930) - (Getty Images)