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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Coney Island and Astroland

Coney Island and Astroland

Denson, Charles
Coney Island History Project

Paperback

Series: Images of America

Travel GeneralRegional: Middle Atlantic

Publisher Price: $24.99

ISBN10: 0738574287
ISBN13: 9780738574288
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
Published: Jun 13 2011
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.40 Width: 6.50 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

A look into one of America's most unique places, the famous Coney Island and Astroland theme park.


Coney Island is a unique New York City neighborhood 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 lightbulbs at Luna Park dazzled early visitors, and rocket rides at Astroland fueled 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.

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