Brooklyn & Queens Transit trolley 5002 on Norton's Point line (Railroad Avenue) at West 30th Street.
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Thunderbolt Demolition
Parachute Jump is visible in the background.
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Brooklyn & Queens Transit trolley 2543 on Sea Gate line, traveling west. Luna Park entrance and the B&B Carousell can be seen in the background right. The Boston's Hotel building (built 1907) is behind the trolley. By this time it had ceased...
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Mermaids on parade during the Mermaid Parade
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Worker laying slurry pipe for beach filling operations on Beach 4 with a bulldozer. In 1995 the Army Corps of Engineers began large scale sand replenishment along the length of the publicly-owned Coney Island beach. The privately owned Sea Gate...
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Photograph of the Drop the Dip ride
Also known as Trip to the Moon, "this coaster, which was built from a dentist's model and constructed by Feucht, had oversize dips when it opened on June 6, 1907. Despite its small coaster structure, 450 x 65...
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Looking north east from Boardwalk to the newly built Half Moon Hotel. In the foreground McLochlin's West End baths (a bathhouse).
"The one structure that defined the New Coney Island more than anything elese was the Half Moon Hotel... Described as...
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A typical fortune telling amusement in an arcade in Coney Island, circa 1970. (The Spook-A-Rama and Wonder Wheel sign is visible in the background)
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Photo of chief lifeguard of the Steeplechase Pool standing in pool. Writing on back states "George the (chief) life guard / Steeplechase Park Coney Island Bklyn N.Y. closed September 1964 / Steeplechase Pool closed in September 1962.
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"Ray De Mott (atop pole in foreground) checks the guide ropes for the Parachute Jump at Steeplechase Park, Coney Island, N.Y. The fun arena opens officially on May 21, although a part of it has been opened weekends since February 5."
A worker checks that guide ropes for the Parachute Jump are ready for opening day, 1949, at Steeplechase Park.
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