Taken from Surf Avenue looking north west. To the east of the main entrance to Luna Park is Kisters Hotel and Restaurant. The building survived numerous fires, and the demise of its famous neighbor, until the 1970's.
"For nearly a hundred years, the...
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Collection type: Documentary photograph
Rose Patton, nee Schwartz, lived in Coney Island in 1938 in a house her mother and aunt inherited from their father. Rose's family of four and her aunt's family of three shared the house for about a year before moving back to Brighton...
Content type: Oral History Item
Page 12 (right) of the Glimpses of the New Coney Island book: Entrance to Luna Park, Looking Out to Surf Avenue
Photograph from the inside part of the entrance to Luna Park with a view of crowds on Surf Avenue
One of Coney Island's three main...
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Collection type: Book