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As of 2019, the Steeplechase Face continues to appear as sticker art in Coney Island. [15] An exhibit on the history of the face was shown by the Coney Island History Project in 2014. [16] An exhibit on Coney Island's history, which included artifacts of the face, was displayed at the Brooklyn Museum in 2015. [17] [18]
Tillie is an amusement park "fun face", painted during the winter of 1955–1956. The name Tillie is likely a nod to George C. Tilyou , owner of Steeplechase Park in Coney Island , New York , which featured the Steeplechase Face , similar grinning face signage.
The collection holds many artifacts of Coney Island, including an authentic Steeplechase horse, part of Steeplechase Park. [5] In 2014, the history project presented an exhibition on the history of the Steeplechase Face. [14] In 2018, the Coney Island History Project presented an exhibition examining the history of Coney Island Creek.
Steeplechase Park was an amusement park that operated in the Coney Island neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City, United States, from 1897 to 1964. Steeplechase Park was created by the entrepreneur George C. Tilyou as the first of the three large amusement parks built on Coney Island, the other two being Luna Park (1903) and Dreamland (1904).
George Cornelius Tilyou was born on February 3, 1862, in New York City. [2]: 204 [3]: 67 His parents were hotel proprietor Peter Tilyou and Ellen Mahoney Tilyou.[2]: 204 [4] In 1865 when Tilyou was three years old, the family moved to Coney Island in Brooklyn, which then was outside New York City limits.
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