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The Ups and Downs of America's First Amusement Park

Coney Island is a twentieth-century icon of American fun, and the birthplace of the large-scale amusement park. George Tilyou's grinning "funny face" logo for Steeplechase Park, the giant tower at Dreamland, and Luna Park's 1.3 million electric lights drew crowds of fun-seekers for decades. Visitors strolled the boardwalk, splashed in the Atlantic Ocean, rode the Wonder Wheel, and enjoyed festive, carefree days at New York's "Electric Eden."

  • Luna Park

  • Foolish House

  • Two people on a horse ride.

  • Coney Island's Ferris Wheel

  • Dreamland

  • A Coney Island elephant

  • Steeplechase Park

  • Coney Island at night

  • Bathers at Coney Island

  • Steeplechase Park

  • Two women enjoying Coney Island's rides

  • Steeplechase Park
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