As the last vestiges of classic Coney Island are systematically being destroyed, here's a beautifully done--if depressing as hell--look at one of the last relic's of "America's Playland" left standing...until just last month, that is: Henderson's Music Hall, built in 1899 on Surf Avenue, near the Coney Island Boardwalk. If you ask me, allowing this wholesale destruction of Coney Island is Mayor Bloomberg's greatest failure as mayor (the whole blizzard/snowplow disaster's another story...). It seems that no one in a position of authority is aware that everything that they are so anxious to get rid of there is exactly what makes Coney Island what it is/was. Once it's all scrubbed clean and it's too late...will they realize it then? Or care?
A quiet, relaxing day at the beach....Coney Island, around 1955.
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