Buckles Blog: Coney Island 1906

Sunday, October 18, 2009

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Eric said...: In 1906, Luna Park was owned by the same people who owned the Hippodrome Theater in New York. Norman Clarke’s very excellent book THE MIGHTY HIPPODROME provides a long and detailed account of the Luna Park elephants, under the supervision of the park’s boss elephant man Pete Barlow, being transported from the park through Brooklyn, over the Brooklyn Bridge, up Broadway and across Forty-Second Street to the basement of the Hippodrome in March 1905.; 18 October, 2009 11:39
Ole Whitey said...: But it omits any mention of the Cole Bros-Clyde Beatty Circus (as some of the ads read) which appeared at the Hipp in 1937.; 18 October, 2009 13:58
Anonymous said...: We have a few dozen antique Coney cards and not one of these...damn.

Paul G.; 20 October, 2009 14:27

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