Monday, May 20, 2013

Coney Island #11

Posted by Buckles at 5/20/2013 05:32:00 AM

3 comments:

Chic Silber said...


Both of these images show the giant

elephant hotel in the background

This was the 2nd of 3 by the same

builder in 1885 & burnt down in 1896

The 1st 1 was in Margate just South

of Atlantic City that is still there

& the 3rd was in Cape May that was

torn down long long gone

Irvin had the vision of creating a

similar structure at the entrance

of Circus World in Haines City

20 May, 2013 10:39
Larry Louree said...

The CW hotel was going to be 23 stories tall. It would have been impressive on top of that hill at US 27 & I-4, but like the park, the tourism business model just couldn't support it "out there". My Gosh, it was 15 minutes from Disney.


20 May, 2013 21:42
Chic Silber said...


Yes Larry certainly more impressive

the the Colonel Sanders distribution

warehouse looking structure as built

20 May, 2013 23:16

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