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	Coney Island
		Coney Island was one of the world's most popular amusement parks for a century, and it still goes strong today though the twists and turns of fate have retailored her course – and sorely tested her resolve – over the years.
		Cincinnati businessman Ron Walker purchased Coney Island in 1991 and, today, under the ownership of the Walker family, Coney Island once again is thriving, and Lake Como, Sunlite Pool, Moonlite Gardens and the picnic shelters are constant reminders of the great park of the past.
		Coney Island is a state of mind – a feeling of relaxing and sharing with friends and family on a long summer's day, a place where grandparents can share memories with grandchildren.
	www.appalachianfestival.org /05heritage/oldconey.html (2647 words)

	PATRICK H. CONEY
		Coney is a lawyer, has practiced in Topeka over thirty years, is also a vigorous writer, has been a publisher in his time, and has always made his private success subsidiary to the public welfare.
		Coney has earned many large fees from wealthy clients, it is said that more than half his professional service has been rendered gratuitously to the old soldiers and the soldiers' widows in securing pensions for them and in other ways easing the burdens of existence.
		Coney has traveled and read extensively, and has a well selected library of his favorite authors, is a collector of historical relics, and is a writer who lends perfect diction to an orderly train of thought and imagination.
	skyways.lib.ks.us /genweb/archives/1918ks/bioc/coneyph.html (1017 words)

	Coney Island
		Coney Island is a peninsula and former island of southernmost Brooklyn, New York City, with a famous beach lying on the Atlantic Ocean.
		The neighborhood of "Coney Island" is specifically a community of about 65,000 people in the western part of the "island", and shares the peninsula with Sea Gate to its west, and Brighton Beach and then Manhattan Beach to its east.
		In Coney Island's lowest years there was some incremental improvement in relatively small areas, notably the preservation and later the expansion of what had been the rides area at the back of the Feltman's property as Astroland.
	en.mcfly.org /Coney_Island (1730 words)

	Coney Island - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Coney Island still maintains a broad sandy beach from West 37th Street at Sea Gate through the Coney Island and Brighton Beach to the beginning of the community of Manhattan Beach, a distance of approximately two-and-a-half miles (~4.0 km).
		Coney Island is mentioned in a song by Fountains Of Wayne on their 1999 album Utopia Parkway called 'Red Dragon Tatoo' about a boy going to Coney Island to get a tattoo to impress a girl.
		Coney Island is often shown in episodes of Spider-Man: The Animated Series as a famous New York landmark and as a background for some scenes, like the first of kiss of a main character.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Coney_Island (3856 words)

	HHC - Coney Island Hospital
		Coney Island has been recognized for its expertise in treating the high incidence of thyroid cancers among the Ukrainian and Russian survivors of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor accident.
		Coney Island Hospital was the first HHC facility to house a mosque and serve halal food.
		Coney Island also was selected as one of only two hospitals statewide to receive IPRO's annual Quality Award for excellence in the care of patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI), heart failure and pneumonia.
	www.nyc.gov /html/hhc/html/facilities/coneyisland.shtml (397 words)

	"The American Experience" Coney Island (1991) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Coney Island is like something out of a fantasy novel.
		Coney Island is still there of course, but the Coney depicted in this film ceased to exist long ago.
		The 20th Century was born at Coney Island and my guess is that pop culture was as well.
	imdb.com /title/tt0256700 (324 words)

	Ron Coney: ZoomInfo Business People Information
		Coney said Eskom Enterprises had already strung 1,300 kilometres of fibre optic cable along power lines for the power authority's private network in 2000 and 2001.
		Coney said among potential clients for Nepskom's wholesale services were mobile operators MTN Nigeria, controlled by South Africa's M-Cell, and Econet Wireless, part owned by Zimbabwe's Econet.
		Coney said the operator, which was launched on May 1, has almost reached its first year target of 12,000 users.
	www.zoominfo.com /people/coney_ron_291140.aspx (597 words)

	Coney Island: Carnival Capital (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Coney Island became a vacation destination in 1829 when a crushed-shell road was constructed along with the Coney Island House hotel.
		Coney was also hurt by the rise of movies, which were cheaper and more convincing spectacles than any ride.
		Building on Coney’s Flip-Flap and Drop the Dips, numerous modern parks are engaged in an arms race to subject passengers to the maximum amount of acceleration and disorientation.
	users.rcn.com /aurbach/coney.htm (2891 words)

	Coney Island
		Coney Island was described as “Heaven at the End of a Subway ride”.
		Coney Island was the birthplace of the first Amusement Park in 1895 and it became home to several of the largest amusement parks in the world.
		Coney Island was described as the “Poor Man’s Paradise”.
	www.pdxhistory.com /html/coney_island.html (630 words)

	Descendants of John Fleming - Part 4
		Coney’s counsel and activeness as a steward in the Methodist church is highly esteemed and he is an important factor in banking and commercial circles.
		Coney was born in Pulaski County, the son of the late Mr.
		Coney was the eldest daughter of the late R. Barfield and was born and reared in the upper part of Dooly county.
	www.mindspring.com /~jtfleming/jf-4.htm (15347 words)

	coney
		The mermaid parade, a dog at Nathans, and a July stroll on the boardwalk are all parts of my usual summer repertoire.
		In 1882 when [Tilyou] was twenty, he and his father Peter built Coney Island's first theater, Tilyou's Surf Theater, along an alley that bisected the walk streets between Surf Avenue and the ocean.
		Coney remains a summer mecca and always will be one.
	www.forgotten-ny.com /Alleys/coneyalleys/coneyalleys.html (938 words)

	Coney Island in The NYC Insider: an insider's guide to New York City
		is the world’s tallest Ferris wheel and the centerpiece of the Coney Island amusement area.
		Coney Island’s bumper cars are the perfect way to vent your frustrations.
		The heart of Coney Island is at Surf Avenue and the Boardwalk in Brooklyn.
	www.theinsider.com /nyc/fun/coney.htm (1081 words)

	Coney Island segregation ended 40 years ago
		It was a struggle that took place in the street and at the gates to the park, in acts of civil disobedience, in the courts, in the chambers of City Hall.
		What happened at Coney Island is part of the tapestry of race relations that began fraying just six years later with the riots in Avondale — first in 1967, again in 1968 — and the riots of last month.
		Coney Island was a touchstone, a place that presented itself as a symbol for all that was wholesome and family-oriented about Cincinnati.
	enquirer.com /editions/2001/05/27/loc_coney_island.html (1409 words)

	Coney Island (restaurant) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A Coney Island is a type of restaurant popular in the Midwestern United States, particularly in the area surrounding Detroit, Michigan, as well as the name for the chili dog after which the restaurant was named.
		The main dish is a Coney Island hot dog, more specifically, a hot dog made from pork with casing, all meat, high fat chili (no beans), diced yellow onion and yellow mustard.
		A leading supplier to Coney restaurants in southeast Michigan is Koegel Meats, located near Flint, Michigan, which makes the preferred Vienna variety of hot dog for Coneys with natural casings and markets the Detroit variety of Coney sauce and the drier Flint variety of Coney sauce.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Coney_Island_(restaurant) (524 words)

	About Coney Island USA
		Coney Island USA also operates the Coney Island Museum and produces Ask the Experts, Burlesque at the Beach, the Coney Island Tattoo and Motorcycle Festival, Creepshow at the Freakshow, and the Coney Island Sideshow School.
		Coney Island USA was founded in the belief that 19th century American popular culture gave birth to a democratic cultural golden age, unique to this country’s history and indispensable to its future.
		Coney Island USA is there to document, preserve and further the unique arts for the masses, providing national perspective, professional dedication and quality programming for Coney Island as it heads into the 21st century.
	www.coneyisland.com /about.shtml (650 words)

	Coney Island: Brooklyn's Playground by the Sea. Amusement park rides, Cyclone, Nathans & Mermaid Parade
		At 150 feet, the Wonder Wheel is the world’s tallest Ferris wheel and the centerpiece of the Coney Island amusement area.
		Coney Island’s Eldorado Disco Bumper Cars are the perfect way to vent your frustrations.
		Other rides and attractions, some of which operate independently of Coney’s two major amusement parks include carousels, a water flume, spook houses, go karts, batting ranges, BB gun shooting galleries and a variety of carnival games where guys still win kewpie dolls for their sweethearts.
	pages.prodigy.net /mlemus/coney/coney2.htm (1096 words)

	Coney Island Summary
		Coney Island was the testing ground for revolutionary architectural designs, and Luna Park was an architectural spectacle, a modern yet imaginary city built on thirty-eight acres and employing seventeen hundred people during the summer season, with its own telegraph office, cable office, wireless office, and telephone service.
		Coney Island still maintains a broad sandy beach from West 37th Street at Sea Gate through the Coney Island and Brighton Beach to the beginning of the community of Manhattan Beach, a distance of approximately two-and-a-half miles (~4.0 km).
		Coney Island is mentioned in a song by Fountains Of Wayne on their 1999 album Utopia Parkway called 'Red Dragon Tatoo' about a boy going to Coney Island to get a tattoo to impress a girl.
	www.bookrags.com /Coney_Island (4617 words)

	Roller Coaster History \| Coney Island
		Coney was chosen as a test site for many rides because it was the first mecca for American amusement parks and devices.
		New Yorkers started visiting Coney Island via a shell road during the 1830's and by the Civil War there were over a dozen hotels and bathhouses on the island.
		The other two famous coasters at Coney Island were the 1925 Thunderbolt, designed by John Miller and the Tornado, built by the Thomson Company under the leadership of Frank Darling in 1926.
	www.ultimaterollercoaster.com /coasters/history/early_1900/coney_island.shtml (1732 words)

	Coney Island USA Events-Tourist Information
		Coney Island is a New York City neighborhood that features an amusement area that includes 35 or more separate rides and attractions; it's not a centrally managed amusement park like Disneyland or Six Flags.
		The Coney Island Museum is also open on Saturdays and Sundays, from noon to 5 PM all year round.
		Coney Island is the birthplace of the hot-dog, and there is no shortage of places to eat here.
	www.coneyislandusa.com /tourism.shtml (583 words)

	Coney Island History
		Coney Island: Coney Island is not actually an island, but a small peninsula that hangs from the southernmost edge of Brooklyn.
		From its beginnings as a quiet seaside town, Coney Island went on to boom years in the 1880s, as entrepreneurs rushed to stake their claims and make their fortunes.
		Nevertheless, Coney Island continued to provide an accessible and affordable opportunity for a diverse population, always looming large in the history of New York.
	www.vanalen.org /competitions/ConeyIsland/background.htm (533 words)

	4th Annual Coney Island Film Festival (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		In keeping with the spirit of Coney Island, the Festival organizers eschew high-art snootiness in favor of a more egalitarian approach to film (the consumption of beer and hot dogs is encouraged).
		The Festival was founded as a fund-raising event for the non-profit arts organization Coney Island USA which produces it along with indiefilmpage.com.
		The mission of Coney Island USA is to operate a multi-arts center offering affordable museum and theater programming to an audience of all New Yorkers.
	www.emediawire.com /releases/2004/9/emw159627.htm (776 words)

	Explore Historic Coney Mountain
		The present trip to Coney Mountain begins where the county line crosses Route 30, a highway that did not exist until approved by the voters in 1918.
		Clockwise from Tupper Lake on the north, the principal landmarks are nearby Litchfield (Goodman) Mountain, Coney's twin; Mount Morris (Big Tupper); the Sewards, the MacIntyres to the east, and Marcy; and Santanoni, Blue Mountain, and several lakes and ponds to the west.
		On Stoddard's 1891 map it appears as "Cone" of which Coney is a corruption.
	tupperlake.net /coney.htm (1053 words)

	Coney Island: The Ups and Downs of America’s First Amusement Park
		Coney Island is the parent of the hundreds of old fashioned amusement parks that once dotted the American landscape.
		The authors make the point that Coney Island (as well as the whole amusement park industry) could not exist without the new technology of the industrial age, but it also could not compete with the new technologies of the late 20th century—especially in their respective abilities to create illusions and an escape from reality.
		The Coney Island celebrated in the Burns film is long gone; not only that, most of the structures associated with the three parks located here are also merely memories.
	www.publichistory.org /reviews/View_Review.asp?DBID=75 (2497 words)

	Amazon.com: Coney Island: Books: Harvey Stein (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Veteran photographer Harvey Stein sees Coney Island, New York, as an "oasis of decay, funkiness, hope and joy, uninhibited behavior, and visual stimulation." After an initial enchanting visit to the island as an adolescent, Stein has returned there countless times with his camera.
		For this book of photographs, he turns his lens on Coney Island's amusements--the neon-ringed Wonder Wheel and famous Cyclone roller coaster--and the boardwalk, where lovers cavort and an elderly man leans against a graffiti-littered wall, holding a reflector under his chin to catch the sun's rays.
		There is a time line in the front of the book that documents fascinating trivia about Coney Island such as the date of the frankfurter debut and the opening of its first roller coaster, but the photos are the star attractions.
	www.amazon.com /Coney-Island-Harvey-Stein/dp/0393317870 (1710 words)

	CORE IDN - Postcards from Coney Island
		Coney Island's seedy undercurrent is exemplified beautifully by Eldorado.
		References to the old Coney can be identified in the old-fashioned fonts and scrolls on signs.
		The shooting galleries also employ the colour palette of Coney's system and use the image of clowns heavily, conveying the feeling of silly fun.
	www.core77.com /reactor/coney.island/postcards.html (682 words)

	2DrX - Coney Basin
		Coney Basin was forgotten for the rest of the summer, until a solo recon trip was made in early September.
		Most of the last mile to the Coney cutoff is on pretty good road, which allows two individuals to walk abreast and talk - which we did.
		Almost to the head of the Coney Basin, 'the Jungle' is a stretch of brush that starts from the cliffs above, and runs into the flat brush prison of the basin proper.
	www.2drx.com /2000/Coney (1578 words)

	Coney - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It has been popularly supposed that Coney Island, in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, was named for its (former) abundance of rabbits.
		Coney Sauce a spicy beef "chili" served on hot dogs.
		Coney Island hot dog - a hot dog style originated on Coney Island, and also served in the Michigan based Coney Island restaurants which uses Coney sauce, that is similar to the Michigan hot dog, and may be considered a type of chili dog
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Coney (296 words)

	Coney-Transportation
		The development of Coney Island's tourist facilities went hand in hand with the development of transportation routes to the increasingly popular seaside resort.
		The Brooklyn, Bath and Coney Island Railroad initially ran to Bath Beach (where 18th Avenue meets the shore of the Lower Bay, north of Coney Island) in 1864.
		Where Coney was visited primarily by the rich in the 19th century and later by the middle class, who could both afford the island's food and entertainment, this new group was different and poor.
	www.westland.net /coneyisland/articles/transportation.htm (3737 words)

	Coney Island Film Festival - Feedback
		Coney Island is a perfect setting for such unique subject matter, as the two are both so unusually daring and outrageous.
		The Coney Island Film Festival is an incredible experience, a true gem of an event that carries all the irreverence and character of the boardwalk into its screenings.
		Coney Island was small enough, yet adequate enough for everyone to view all of the films without having to make a choice.
	www.coneyislandfilmfestival.com /praise.htm (4268 words)

	The Brooklyn Rail - Coney Island Revival
		Zigun, in his fifties, with a graying goatee, a bowler hat, and arms a tattooed canvas, is standing before a crowd of supporters, board members, and fans of Coney’s hip brand of freak-show chic—the dress code for the recent benefit held at Crobar.
		At the time, his insistence that new residents might find Coney’s color and chaos inhospitable was a plea for survival, but it can also be read as a solid defense of what has defined Coney Island for a century.
		In Coney Island, the success and prevalence of arts initiatives has brought a blend of yuppies and countercultural revelers to converge on the salty boardwalk.
	www.brooklynrail.org /2006-06/local/coney-island-revival (1642 words)

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