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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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