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Elephants in Luna Park, the promenade, Coney Island, New York circa 1907 (colorized by Dana Keller)
Check Out This Vintage Colorized Photograph Showing Elephants in Luna Park, Coney Island Circa 1907
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Colorized by expert colorist Dana Keller, this great vintage photograph shows elephants in Luna Park, and the Coney Island promenade around 1907, the way it probably looked as if you were…

August 13, 1903 - Coney Island, New York (Speed corrected with sound)
[WATCH] Vintage Film Shows Festivities on Coney Island Circa 1903
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This film, titled Rube and Mandy at Coney Island, was originally a silent film from 1903, the same year the original Luna Park opened to the public. The film was a comedic short produced by…

Aug. 3, 1975: Coney Island was one of the few areas of activity during that summer’s hottest days, as the “Coney Island Chamber of Commerce reported a crowd of more than 1 million people, including more than 5,000 who slept on the beaches overnight,” The Times reported. Elsewhere across the five boroughs, “New York City was a town in low gear,” as temperatures seemed to linger in the 90s without any respite in sight.
Vintage Photograph Shows Thousands of Beachgoers on Packed Coney Island Beach in 1975
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The Lively Morgue was a daily photo blog from the New York Times in which an original photo from the newspaper's archives is reposted along with tidbits of information gleaned from the…