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Coney Island

posted 15 years ago by jtyroler
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It's always interesting seeing clips of Coney Island from the 1910s and 1920s. Some of those rides are really simplistic compared to rides of today, but still look pretty fun.

[–] annwyn321 15 years ago

Have you seen Harold Lloyd's "Speedy"? There's a long segment in it that takes place on Coney Island. There's one ride that spins around and hurls riders off of it. Looks brutal...

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[–] jtyroler 15 years ago

The ride were people are sitting on a spinning floor? That's been in a few movies and it looks like it would have been pretty fun to ride.

[–] Alix1929 15 years ago

Clara Bow's IT also has coney island scenes in it.

[–] The_Mean_Reds 14 years ago

I've always thought the rides like that look pretty dangerous! Compared to today's safety-consumed standards, at least.

The spinning platforms and all the stuff like that look easy for some fingers to get in between the moving parts. I bet a lot of them were lost during those days.

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