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  2. World Circus Sideshow - Wikipedia

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    The World Circus Side Show was a sideshow owned and operated by "Professor" Samuel Wagner from 1922 to 1941 on Surf Avenue, Coney Island, New York.. Known as "The Godfather" of the Coney Island Freak Show, Wagner was a contemporary of other sideshow and circus legends, such as the Ringling Brothers and P.T. Barnum.

  3. Sideshow - Wikipedia

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    "Sideshows by the Seashore", sponsored by Coney Island USA in Brooklyn, NY has performed since 1983, and tours under the name "Coney Island Circus Sideshow". Circus historian and collector Ken Harck ran the Brothers Grim Sideshow, which toured with the OzzFest music festival in the summer of 2006 and 2007. Sideshow celebrity and multiple world ...

  4. Wall of death - Wikipedia

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    The wall of death, motordrome, velodrome[3] or well of death is a carnival sideshow featuring a silo- or barrel-shaped wooden cylinder, typically ranging from 20 to 36 feet (6.1 to 11.0 m) in diameter and made of wooden planks, inside which motorcyclists, or the drivers of miniature automobiles and tractors travel along the vertical wall and ...

  5. Dreamland (Coney Island, 1904) - Wikipedia

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    Between about 1880 and World War II, Coney Island was the largest amusement area in the United States, attracting several million visitors per year. [2] Sea Lion Park opened in 1895 and was Coney Island's first amusement area to charge entry fees; [3] [4] this in turn spurred the construction of George C. Tilyou's Steeplechase Park in 1897, the neighborhood's first major amusement park.

  6. Coney Island - Wikipedia

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    718, 347, 929, and 917. Coney Island is a neighborhood and entertainment area in the southwestern section of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. The neighborhood is bounded by Brighton Beach to its east, Lower New York Bay to the south and west, and Gravesend to the north and includes the subsection of Sea Gate on its west.

  7. Ford Amphitheater at Coney Island - Wikipedia

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    5,000. Opened. June 25, 2016. (2016-06-25) Website. Venue website. The Ford Amphitheater at Coney Island is an outdoor live entertainment venue within the Childs Restaurants building on the Riegelmann Boardwalk in Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York City. The venue opened in June 2016.

  8. Luna Park (Coney Island, 2010) - Wikipedia

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    Official website. Luna Park is an amusement park in Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York City. It opened on May 29, 2010, at the site of Astroland, an amusement park that had been in operation from 1962 to 2008, and Dreamland, which operated at the same site for the 2009 season. It was named after the original 1903 Luna Park which operated until ...

  9. Samuel W. Gumpertz - Wikipedia

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    Samuel W. Gumpertz (1868 – June 22, 1952 [1]) was an American showman who played a part in the building of Coney Island's Dreamland. [2]Gumpertz was the talent manager of Harry Houdini, and he became right-hand man to John T. Ringling, last of the famed Ringling Brothers, and after Ringling retired in 1932, he took over the circus in the capacity of vice-president and general manager. and ...

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