Coney Island was, and still is, America Gone Wild.

We'll tell the stories, you connect the dots: elephant execution,
midget villages, and Al Capone. Though Coney's reputation has dwindled, clues to its glory days are woven into its
current community. This tour focuses on the 1860 to 1960 era, when Coney became the world's most influential
amusement park and the showplace of popular culture. Our story begins with the English farming village of
Gravesend, and ends during the shrinkage of its amusemant district around World War II. Join us, as we attempt to
make sense of the bizarre and colorful past. "Not to have seen it, is not to have seen your own country."

Gotham SideWalks….Coney Island's Talking Boardwalk

LaMarcus The city completes Parachute Jump Dodgers

Charles Thompson's a large Public installed along move to
John McKane
Feltman "Switchback McKane goes to Boardwalk boardwalk L.A. 2
named as Tilyou's
invents the Freud visits The Wonderwheel opens,
constable of Railroad" becomes jail; Sealion Steeplechase 1923 1941 years after
hot dog "Dreamland" as does a 5 cent subway Cyclone roller
Gravesend the world's 1st "Amusement Park opens Feltman's winning
line to Coney Island coaster opens
1867
1868 roller coaster Park" opens 1909 closes World
1897 1920
1884 1894; 1895 1927 1954 Series
1957

1860 1870 1880 1890 1900 1910 1920 1930 1940 1950

Horse-drawn trolleys Culver's 35 Dreamland burns, Robert Moses becomes city

Parks Commissioner, 1.5 million attend
make regular trips to cent railroad Luna Park opens; and instead the
bans "barking" & "ballyhoo" Coney's July 4th
Coney Island during from Prospect Dreamland opens Dreamland Circus Airshow
the Civil War Park opens 1903; 1904 Sideshow opens 1938
1955
1863 1875 that summer
1911

Sea Lion Park (Captain Paul Boyton), 1895-1902 Steeplechase Park (Tilyou Family), 1897-1964 Luna Park (Frederick Thompson & Skip Dundee), 1903-1946 Dreamland (Senator William H. Reynolds), 1904-1911