A M U S E M E N T S . . . of the past, and Coney Island

a 1932 carnival swing

        

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a Claude Flight print,  1924       click image twice for full size

        

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a print by Cyril Edward Power,  1933

        

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fun at the 1909 Alaska-Yukon Pacific Expo       click twice

        

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the 1904 World's Fair  "Temple of Mirth ... with distorting mirrors,

cave of winds and other curious sights"       click twice

        

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Niagara Falls 1973,  on Clifton Hill the tourist strip

        

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a Disney animation background       see full size

        

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1923 fun-house mirrors from a carnival industry supply catalog

        

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a 1952 UPA animation background       see full size

        

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a William Cotton 1939 illustration

        

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a 1909 ad for Luna Park at Coney Island,  New York       see full size

        

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the Coney Island 'Elephantine Colossus',  1885 to 1896

        

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the Coney Island 'Elephantine Colossus' ... the elephant's eyes contained

telescopes and acted as an observatory for visitors ... there were reports

of a working bordello in the structure's declining years       click twice

        

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1904   "The Plunging Elephants .. Luna Park"

        

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1904  "The Elephant's Plunge"   a Luna Park photograph       click twice

        

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the 1904 Coney Island   "Leap Frog Railway ...  full speed ... 32 people

are literally hurled over the heads of 32 others"       click twice

        

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the 1890 novelty of Coney Island night-swimming by electric light 

see full size

        

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a 1912 Coney Island Luna Park birds-eye view       click twice

        

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1904 Coney Island Amusement Rides   "The Water Jump"   "The Earthquake Floor"

        

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in 1937 the Coney Island  "under-boardwalk"  was in decay       click twice

        

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a Leroy Neiman painting       see full size

        

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1964 World's Fair amusements

        

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a UPA animation layout,  1954       click twice

        

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a 1972 electric bumper-car carnival ride for ramming other bumper-cars

        

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at the 1910 Japan-British Exposition       click twice

        

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from a sales catalog of 1908 Fraternity Prank Supplies ... mercurine

powder on water has the appearance of molten lead       see full size

        

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European amusements by Toulouse-Lautrec

        

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the Chutes Ride 1911,  Toronto Canada       see full size

        

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a 1900 Andre Castaigne illustration of Paris amusements at the World's Fair 

see full size

        

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a Franz Wacik Illustration

          

T H E A T E R . . . by different artists, part 2

a 1922 stage design

      

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Leon Bakst

     

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a 1921 orchestra pit       see full size

     

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an illustration about overacting in 1855

     

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a poster for British transit by Margaret Calkin James,  1929

     

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an 1897 live theater illusion       see full size

     

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a 1913 theater audience

     

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pre-recorded theater music in 1929 was protested by musicians see full size

     

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a Ronald Searle illustration for Holiday Magazine,  1968

     

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"Dainty Marie"     a 1915 Vaudeville performer

     

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"Charmon - The Perfect Woman"    1915 Vaudeville

      

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a Marcello Dudovich 1899 poster for Puccini's opera  'Tosca' 

      

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Maurits Cornelis Escher,  1920

     

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a Mabel Dwight print,  1925       see full size

     

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1928       see full size

     

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1930s cinema door handles

     

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1938       see full size

      

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a louvered cinema screen in 1952

     

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a 1960 theater seat ash receptacle

     

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a Rick Meyerowitz illustration,  1972

     

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François Schuiten

     

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an Arthur Getz illustration for the New Yorker Magazine

      

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Charles Burns       see full size
      

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a Bruno Vetterli 1945 circus poster
      

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a Joseph Christian Leyendecker illustration
      

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"You know who I really hate? Circus folk! ... I say we go way way across town to where those circus folk live and SHUN them! ... We're not obsessed with you! Not in the least!" 
a Rod Filbrandt cartoon
      

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Seymour Chwast

    

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Aunt Mary's brother Leo sent vacation slide photographs from Hawaii ...
by Mary K. Brown,  1980

      
see Theater part 1 HERE