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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 3-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.

Book details

• Full title: Coney Island and Astroland
• Author: Charles Denson
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 127
• EAN: 9780738574288
• ISBN: 0738574287
• ID: 11014737
• Publisher: Arcadia Pub
• Weight: 308 g
• Dimensions: 235 × 165 × 13 mm
• Date of publishing: 13. June 2011

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