Coney Island and Astroland
by Charles Denson
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ISBN Number: 978-0738574288
Format:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
127
Publication Date:
June 2011
Publisher:
Arcadia Publishing

Coney Island is a unique New York City neighbourhood and a place of exciting innovation, where the roller coaster and the hot dog were introduced to the world, the glow of a million bare light bulbs at Luna Park dazzled early visitors, and rocket rides at Astroland fuelled intergalactic fantasies. Coney Island served as the pressure valve for New York, drawing millions to its famous beach on sweltering weekends. Astroland Park, created at the dawn of the space age, was the vision of Dewey and Jerome Albert. They transformed the three-acre Feltman's Restaurant property, one of Coney Island's oldest attractions, into a futuristic amusement park that would anchor the amusement zone for the next half century. The park's ambitious opening in 1962 mirrored the wide-eyed optimism of the early 1960s and helped Coney Island survive the closure of the venerable Steeplechase Park.

Condition: Fine.
 

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