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Luna Park was an amusement park that operated in the Coney Island neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City, United States, from 1903 to 1944.The park was located on a site bounded by Surf Avenue to the south, West 8th Street to the east, Neptune Avenue to the north, and West 12th Street to the west.
This film documents the publicly announced killing of Topsy the elephant at the unfinished Luna Park on Coney Island, New York City on January 4, 1903. The elephant had recently been acquired from Forepaugh Circus, where she had a reputation as a "bad" elephant, having killed a drunken spectator the previous year who burnt the tip of her trunk with a lit cigar.
The original Luna Park on Coney Island, a massive spectacle of rides, ornate towers and cupolas covered in 250,000 electric lights, was opened in 1903 by the showmen and entrepreneurs Frederic Thompson and Elmer "Skip" Dundy.
English: A photograph from a January 11, 1903 St. Louis Republic article about the the January 4, 1903 electrocution of Topsy the elephant in an event to raise publicity about the opening of the new Coney Island amusement park "Luna Park" (at this point still under construction). The newspaper account says that Topsy refused to cross the bridge ...
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Absorbed by Long Branch Park: Luna Park: Coney Island, Brooklyn: 1903–1944 Luna Park: Olcott: 1898–1926 Also known as Luna Amusement Park; destroyed by fire in 1927 Luna Park: Rexford: 1901–1933 Also known as Dolle's Park, Colonnade Park, Palisades Park, and Rexford Park Magic Forest Lake George: 1963–2018 McCullough's Kiddie Park Coney ...
After it was brought to Coney Island's Luna Park, the ride was revamped in a new building at a cost of $52,000. The ride's centerpiece was a ship called Luna III, enlarged to accommodate more passengers.
By 1886, it was dubbed the Coney Island of the West by locals. The park grew in popularity and added its steamboat to ferry guests to and from the park. With the passage of time, Lake Como ...