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	Luna Park (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Luna Park was the originally the name of the second major amusement park at Coney Island, ultimately named for the spaceship in the Buffalo, New York World's Fair ride "A Trip to the Moon".
		Luna Park is the name of one of the buildings at the Boardwalk Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.
		Luna Park was the name of the amusement park on the moon in the TV show Futurama.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Luna_Park (240 words)

	Leonardo Digital Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Coney Island at the turn of the century, however, was special, its quality arose from its proximity to an astonishing city that saw (and accommodated) over 14 million immigrants in the course of as many years.
		What these immigrants used Coney for was as complex and diverse as the uses they made of nickelodeons, taverns, churches, summer schools, night classes newspapers, department stores, billboards, operas, advertisements and the host of diverting and uplifting sights that distinguished New York from the misery and persecution that they had left behind.
		Their parks attracted massive crowds not simply because of the thrills and spills, but because they were relevant to the intellectual aspirations of a public who were, above all, insatiably curios about everything in the new world around them.
	mitpress2.mit.edu /e-journals/Leonardo/reviews/apr2003/Coney_punt.html (826 words)

	coney island
		Gay crowds like these are common at Coney Island and all up and down the length of the western shore of the Atlantic Ocean.
		[Dreamland Park, Coney Island, New York].[between 1905 and 1910]
		The Helter Skelter, Luna Park, Coney Island, N.Y..
	www.euriskodata.com /products/coney.htm (666 words)

	HYBRIDtext: TIMES² - page 5 - Part Two: Amusement Parks
		Luna Park was in fact an enclosed miniature city, made up of hundreds of towers, spires and minarets.
		Luna Park's wild skyline was topped with over a million lightbulbs, creating a beaming spectacle which was visible for miles.
		Coney Island's "golden age", however, ended in the 1910s, when both Dreamland and Luna Park were destroyed by fires.
	home.luna.nl /~xino/times2/ts05.htm (1067 words)

	GHOST TRAIN
		A main attraction at the park was live entertainment which included the Luna Park Band, high wire performances, performing animals, acrobats, trick cyclists, a troop of midgets, and a Swedish diver, Miss Thelin who dove into a pool from a 50 ft tower into a tub of blazing water with her clothes alight.
		With the exception of the Park's heritage structures, the entire park was stripped bare and a major construction exercise began to reinstall the Park's infrastructure and some of its existing attractions.
		It seemed that the new Luna Park was once again exciting and delighting generations of Australians and retaking its place in the hearts and minds of the community.
	www.elvision.com /tunneloflaffs/ghosttrain/gtindex.html (1487 words)

	Coney - Luna Park (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The reason for Luna Park's immediate success can easily be summed up in Thompson's philosophy and observations of his fellow man. Visitors to a seaside resort "are not in the mood, and do not want to encounter seriousness in their every-day lives, and the keynote of the thing they do demand is change.
		The park's Ostrich Farm near the rear of the park was another novel attraction.
		Luna had a $400,000 mortgage and the bank was asking $60,000 rental for the park.
	naid.sppsr.ucla.edu /coneyisland/articles/lunapark.htm (10417 words)

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		The sprawling park proved to be fundamental in the development of the rollercoaster, the hotdog, and the new American ethos of fun.
		Coney Island was the summer safety valve for New York and provided for a release of heat and human energy from the city.
		Coney Island was in some sense a huge window display of a human parade open to the public view.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~UG02/altman/coney_island_webpage/may10.txt (1739 words)

	Roller Coaster History - Coney Island History
		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.
		Coney Island will forever be remembered as the most influential amusement area in the United States.
	www.ultimaterollercoaster.com /coasters/history/early_1900/history_coney.shtml (1745 words)

	HistoryLink Essay: Luna Park - Coney Island of the West (1907-1913)
		Luna Park was built on the tide flats along Duwamish Head, not far from where Seattle's first settlers landed in 1851.
		As the city dads grappled with growth and expansion, Luna Park and its "longest bar on the bay" was mostly left alone, and proved to be quite the attraction it was planned to be.
		When they do, the tide flats are exposed and the rows of pilings that once supported Luna Park are brought to light, causing new generations and new residents of the Northwest to gaze and to ponder.
	www.historylink.org /essays/output.cfm?file_id=1390 (962 words)

	The American Experience \| Coney Island \| People & Events \| Luna Park Opens
		Extending their success with illusion rides, Thompson and Dundy filled their park with visions of exotic events and locales, such as "The War of the Worlds," "The Kansas Cyclone," and of course, the ever popular "Trip to the Moon." The park itself was designed so as to keep visitors constantly on the move.
		With Steeplechase Park and Luna Park operating at full tilt, the momentum was overwhelming, and in 1904, Senator William Reynolds and a group of speculators opened Coney Island's third large-scale park.
		Coney Island had appeared in the world with a burst of imagination, but its most extravagant days were already behind it.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/coney/peopleevents/pande09.html (466 words)

	History of the Public Schools of Wyandotte County, Kansas 1844-2006
		Planners of the park announced it would be equal in area to the White City in Chicago, and that it would be larger than any amusement park in St. Louis, Indianapolis, or any other large city west of New York.
		The park was bound by 14th Street, 16th Street, Armstrong, and Barnett - consisting of nine acres in that part of Kansas City, Kansas called the West Side.
		Games were played at Heathwood Park at 10th and Parallel until 1922 when the Carnival Park property became an athletic field for the school.
	www.kckps.org /disthistory/areahistory/carnival_park.htm (525 words)

	Big Apple History . Arts and Entertainment . Fantasy by the Shore \| PBS KIDS GO!
		For New York's working women and men, Coney Island was a dream come true: a place to escape city heat, parents, and work -- a place to have fun.
		Located on a strip of sand between Brooklyn and the Atlantic Ocean, Coney Island featured rides, exotic-looking buildings (one was shaped like an elephant), cheap seafood, the beach, and, after dark, a magical world of electric lights and noisy dance halls.
		Coney Island first became popular after the Civil War as a quiet get-away for rich New Yorkers.
	pbskids.org /bigapplehistory/arts/topic14.html (286 words)

	Great Moments with the Amusement Park Industry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Coney's most popular attractions were located in pavilions built near the water.
		The park served as a model for Sea Lion Park at New York's Coney Island.
		Many parks close, due to the public's increased mobility caused by the invention of the automobile, and interest in new attractions such as motion pictures.
	www.napha.org /moments.html (1299 words)

	Events at Luna Park Sydney
		Entry to Coney Island is included in the price of an Unlimited Rides Pass, or for 6 Lunas ($6).
		Luna Park’s photographer will be on-hand taking FREE 6x4inch photographs with enlargements available for purchase at the Luna Park Merchandise Shop.
		Every day throughout the school holidays, Aesop the storyteller will be at Luna Park to recount that much-loved fable of a race between the slow but steady Tortoise and the eager, energetic Hare.
	www.lunaparksydney.com /whats_on/event_santa_christmas.html (248 words)

	Text 2 Reading, Topic: People, Toolbox: The Gilded and the Gritty: America, 1870-1912, Toolbox Library, Teacher ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The most glittering playland was Luna Park, the "side show" Frederic Thompson and his partner Elmer S. Dundy created on Coney Island in New York City.
		Luna Park, for example, could not have existed without Edison's electric lights, thousands of them.
		As the adventures of Rube and Mandy demonstrate, the fun and games at Luna Park were not designed to promote gentility.
	www.nhc.rtp.nc.us:8160 /pds/gilded/people/text2/text2read.htm (353 words)

	Play Ball \| Metropolis Magazine \| August/September 2001
		The Pavilion of Fun was just one of the many glories that Coney Island, a strip of land on the outer reaches of Brooklyn, housed in its 150 years of fame.
		"At Coney Island, where the abiding talent is for the exaggerated and the superlative, the changes have been so violent and complete as to obliterate, each time, the memory of what was there before," wrote Edo McCullough, nephew of George C. Tilyou, who founded Steeplechase Park and built the Pavilion of Fun.
		Once a clear urban grid of streets fed by subways, Coney Island is now a patchwork quilt of auto-oriented development built around parking lots and highways--mixed with old-style urban streets built around subway lines.
	metropolismag.com /html/content_0801/cny (1104 words)

	Amazon.com: Good Old Coney Island: A Sentimental Journey into the Past : The Most Rambunctious, Scandalous, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Told from the viewpoint of a man with strong Coney ancestry, this is really the "inside story" - from the Island's tawdry beginnings, through its turn-of-the-century glory days, the zany "nickel empire" of the 1920's, all the way into the 1950's.
		From shifty politics, prostitution, crime and carnies, to the glories of Luna Park, Dreamland, and Steeplechase - the reader is in for a truly fascinating experience.
		From the early Indian villages to the Dutch settlers to the developers who saw in it a gold mine (once mass transit made the place accessible), Coney Island is a place of a million and one stories and histories.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0823219976?v=glance (1191 words)

	Dreamland, Coney Island- New York (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		If Steeplechase represented fun and sexuality, and Luna was the juxtaposition of art and youth, Dreamland was the Bible brought to Brooklyn with hints of showmanship.
		The park was the brainchild of a crooked businessman, William H. Reynolds.
		Author Richard Snow said that Reynold's underhanded activities were brought to Coney and that Dreamland was built so fast that many islanders felt the park grew over many of the area's fire hydrants, ensuring the park free city water for its short life.
	history.amusement-parks.com /Dreamland.html (268 words)

	Rare Band Organ to be Returned to Luna Park Carousel Media Release 16 October 2001
		Rare Band Organ to be Returned to Luna Park Carousel
		Luna Park's famed "War and Peace" themed Carousel in St Kilda will have its rare Limonaire Freres band organ returned after extensive restoration work.
		The Philadelphia Toboggan Company carousel was originally ordered from New York for the short-lived White City amusement park in Sydney, then sold and shipped to Luna Park St Kilda.
	www.deh.gov.au /minister/env/2001/mr16oct01.html (474 words)

	RailwayBridge: Topsy
		On Sunday January 4, 1903, crowds at Coney Island's electrically lit show-piece Luna Park watched the public execution of Topsy, a female elephant employed by the Park to give rides and carry construction materials.
		Topsy, the ill-tempered Coney Island elephant, was put to death in Luna Park, Coney Island, yesterday afternoon.
		The execution was witnessed by 1,500 or more curious persons, who went down to the island to see the end of the huge beast, to whom they had fed peanuts and cakes in summers that are gone.
	www.railwaybridge.co.uk /topsy.html (490 words)

	Carousel
		By the time I was a teenager, it became a little embarrassing to head for the carousel, while all of my buddies were heading for the roller coaster.
		Below, left, the Chanticleer Carousel, imported from Europe, opened at Luna Park, Coney Island, in 1907 and was in operation there and, later, at Steeplechase, until 1964.
		The carousel on the right, made by Charles Looff, was installed at Feltman's Pavilion, Coney Island, in 1880, and burned in 1899.
	www.thepastwhispers.com /Carousel.html (647 words)

	Coney Island Links
		Coney Island History Articles The best collection of historical Coney Island material on the web.
		Adam Sandy's Coney Island Pages are also a fine source of historical material.
		Al Flosso- The Coney Island Fakir All about one of the greatest comedic magicians of the century.
	www.coneyisland.com /links.shtml (789 words)

	Luna Park (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Luna Park (1979) in fl face and crazed almond eyes, fronting turmoil of expressive gesture and in Albert Tucker’s
		In the hugely enjoyable exhibition ‘Luna Park and the Art of Mass Delirium’ at the Museum of Modern Art at Heide in 1999, twenty Nolans were included, depicting the Giggle Palace, the Big Dipper, the Carousel and the Scenic Railway (but not the Face).
		Community realisation of its cultural significance instituted action to support its conservation and the Friends of Luna Park was formed in March 1993.
	www.skhs.org.au /SKHSbuildings/4.htm (1706 words)

	America at Work / America at Leisure, 1894-1915
		Towards the latter part of the nineteenth century, resorts opened in the outskirts of cities, such as the beach area of Asbury Park in New Jersey, which was founded in 1870.
		National parks were created by the federal government to preserve nature and many began to tour these areas on vacation.
		One such example was Yellowstone Park where people camped or stayed at the hotels built there in the late 1880s.
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/awlhtml/awlleis.html (1333 words)

	Amish, Amusement Parks, Andorra, Angels, Anglican Church & Angola Postcards & Post Cards (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		"Luna Park, Coney Island, N. Y." mailed 1911, corner wear and rounding, small corner crease, trace of cancel ink at left front edge.
		"Luna Park, Coney Island, N. Y." showing a giant slide and some oddly shaped structures, brown-on-yellow within an embossed border surrounded by brown, much corner and edge wear, corner crease, spots at top back edge, very late usage at Hailesboro (2 different cancels there), toned front.
		"Shoot the Chutes, Coney Island, near Cincinnati, O." COL, showing the ride and a nearby paddleboat, published by Gibson Art, unused, AIC, closed-up PH that is visible from both sides.
	www.judnick.com /AmishToAngola.htm (5037 words)

	The Forgotten Resort: Coney Island in the Nineteenth Century
		The Forgotten Resort: Coney Island in the Nineteenth Century
		Long before Steeplechase and Luna Park, Coney Island was a popular resort with large hotels (including one shaped like an elephant), three racetracks, a 300-foot-tall tower, and a vast amusement area.
		By 1880, six million visitors a year crowded this resort, yet this period is now virtually forgotten.
	www.nyhumanities.org /events/event.php?event_id=277 (132 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Fire guts nearly half of Luna Park on August 12th.
		However, the park did reopen and charged ten cents to see the ruins.
		This is an extract from: http://naid.sppsr.ucla.edu/coneyisland/articles/1940.htm Luna Park, Coney Island (photos) before fire.
	www.bklyn-genealogy-info.com /Newspaper/Disasters/1944.LunaPk.html (101 words)

	The Loralei B & B
		The first New York City subway had been built and the new electric light bulb illuminated Brooklyn's Luna Park in Coney Island.
		We are conveniently located 2 blocks from the subway and one block from the bus.
		The cosmopolitan neighborhoods of Park Slope and Brownstone Brooklyn are minutes away.
	www.loraleinyc.com (329 words)

	Limoges Porcelain Boxes > Carousels and Calliopes 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		We did have cars, not our own usually but our parent's vehicles and a few of us could always have the use of our family car on the weekends so we would all pile into the cars, and there were a lot of us, about 16 as I recall, and off we would go.
		We'd go flying around aiming for each other and our friends on the sidelines would be screaming encouragement at us and giving us warnings because they could see where everyone was and we were so busy trying to find our target that we weren't always aware of who was after us.
		I haven't been to an amusement park in many, many years and I don't know if they still have rides like these although I suspect that they do because the kids loved them.
	www.limogesporcelainboxes.com /carouselsandcalliopes2.htm (839 words)

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