Thunderbolt

Washing up on the Beach

Say "NO" to Coney Island Casino

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Coney Island Mermaid Parade Returns to Surf Avenue tomorrow

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A Day at the Aquarium

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New York Aquarium Visit

Life under the Thunderbolt

Life under the Thunderbolt - NYPOST.com

(Excerpt)
Joan Finkelstein expected the nervous shakes. She had agreed to marry Edwin Howard just after meeting him in March 1952. By July of that year, she was headed to his aunt’s house in Coney Island to meet his family for the first time.

When she got there, she noticed it wasn’t she that had the shakes. It was the walls. She looked frantically around the house and, while the china hanging on the walls was rumbling, nothing was crashing to the ground and no one else was batting an eye. Either this is an earthquake, she thought, or I’m losing my mind.

“Oh, that’s just the roller coaster,” Howard reassured her, as her daughter Janine Gorell recalls. “It’s going to go over a lot because it’s July.

The shaken bride-to-be eventually relaxed, accepting that she was about to become a part of this strange family that lived under Coney Island’s Thunderbolt roller coaster.

Rare view inside Child's Restaurant on Boardwalk built in 1924

Here is a rare view of the inside of Child's Restaurant on the Coney Island Boardwalk.  A group of workers opened up the entrances but wouldn't give any information on the purpose of their visit.  Child's Restaurant is a NYC Landmark.
Read Gothamist article in August 2012 on the exciting possibilities.

Rough Ride for Arcades at Coney Island

Rough Ride for Arcades at Coney Island Park - WSJ.com

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As Coney Island rebuilds after Sandy, the operators of its amusement parks face a specific challenge: to refurbish beloved but aniquated games. Park owners have to reach out to special tinkerers to repair fan favorites like Grandma"s Predictions.

Grandma now sits in a kind of intensive-care ward for century-old knickknacks in the Westchester County workshop of Bob Yorburg, 57, who specializes in carnival repair, and who recently revamped the carousel organ for the Big Apple Circus at Lincoln Center

Mermaid Parade 2012

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Crayola

The Mermaid Parade is not the only colorful action on the Boardwalk

Space Invader attacks unfinished Coney Island carousel with ray gun

Shuttle Barge

The future pays no mind to the past.

taking down the strongest

Pier Review

Boardwalk Divas

Detours

Another way home after grocery shopping.

 This photo was taken of one of the boards on the boardwalk after a very misty evening. There must have been some oil residue on the board to create the colors. I took the pic looking straight down 

Boardwalking on a wet foggy morning. Now if she were only holding a red umbrella.

Getting ready for opening day

Dancing with the skies

Late day sun reflects off the white breasts of the seagulls as they wait for the tide to turn.