Coney Island in old color images, 1948

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For e brief time, early in the twentieth century, Coney Island was the most dazzling spectacle in the world — a wonderland of light, imagination, and ingenuity that seemed to herald an emerging nation’s promise at the dawn of the century that it would come to dominate, Coney Island’s three great amusement parks — Steeplechase, […]