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Luna Park switches on power savings

Sydney Morning Herald - Jan 21, 2012
Brilliantly lit … the lights of Luna Park are part of its charm and will cost much less to turn on in future. HOW many amusement-park attendants does it take to change 20000 lightbulbs? Time will tell but workers at Luna Park have begun converting the ...

Luna Park creator visits Forest Park Carousel

New York Daily News - Jan 16, 2012
Ferrari's company helped design and build Luna Park in Coney Island A top-shelf amusement company that helped create Luna Park in Coney Island may be interested in reviving the long-shuttered Forest Park Carousel. Valerio Ferrari, president of Central ...

See & Do: What's on around town

Melbourne Weekly Port Phillip - Jan 23, 2012
Luna Park gets a new ride: Attention thrill seekers: a new ride has been unveiled at Luna Park. The Power Surge will have you seated at the end of a giant spoke wheel, and thrown up, down, forwards and backwards. The Italian-made machine is perfect for ...

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Amusing the Million: Coney Island at the Turn of the Century

by: John F. Kasson
Coney Island: the name still resonates with a sense of racy Brooklyn excitement, the echo of beach-front popular entertainment before World War I. Amusing the Million examines the historical context in which Coney Island made its reputation as an amusement park and shows how America's changing social and economic conditions formed the basis of a new mass culture. Exploring it afresh in this way, John Kasson shows Coney Island no longer as the object of nostalgia but as a harbinger of modernity--and the many photographs, lithographs, engravings, and other reproductions with which he amplifies his text support this lively thesis.
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Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York

by: Kathy Peiss
What did young, independent women do for fun and how did they pay their way into New York City's turn-of-the-century pleasure places? "Cheap Amusements" is a fascinating discussion of young working women whose meager wages often fell short of bare subsistence and rarely allowed for entertainment expenses. Kathy Peiss follows working women into saloons, dance halls, Coney Island amusement parks, social clubs, and nickelodeons to explore the culture of these young women between 1880 and 1920 as expressed in leisure activities.
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Going Out: The Rise and Fall of Public Amusements

by: David Nasaw

David Nasaw has written a sparkling social history of twentieth-century show business and of the new American public that assembled in the city's pleasure palaces, parks, theaters, nickelodeons, world's fair midways, and dance halls.

The new amusement centers welcomed women, men, and children, native-born and immigrant, rich, poor and middling. Only African Americans were excluded or segregated in the audience, though they were overrepresented in parodic form on stage. This stigmatization of the African American, Nasaw argues, was the glue that cemented an otherwise disparate audience, muting social distinctions among "whites," and creating a common national culture.
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San Francisco's Playland at the Beach: The Early Years

by: James R. Smith

Presenting many rare photographs of Playland at the Beach and the surrounding neighborhood—including previously unpublished photographs from the private archive of ride designer Laurence Hollings—this collection contains a comprehensive photographic record of the enthralling amusement park from its construction in 1920 through its glorious heyday in the 1930s and 1940s. Each of Playland’s famous rides receives its own chapter—including the Hippodrome Merry-Go-Round, the Merry Mix-Up, and Rocket Speedway—with photographs showing both how the rides were built and how they looked in their prime.
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Luna Park Sydney, Australia

Luna Park is classic old time amusement park in the middle of Sydney, Australia. On the northern shore of Sydney cove, at Milsons Point in the Kirribilli area of town it's perfectly located. It's free to visit, but of course theres a fee for going on any ride. There are lots of the old amusement park classics such as carousels, Ferris wheels and Roto which was using centrifugal forces as well as the never kinds such as Big Splash and Ranger. The entrance is through the mouth of a giant clowns face.

 

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Luna Park in Coney Island - New York

The new Luna Park in Coney Island, Brooklyn - New York, with rides like air race, brooklyn flyer, eclipse, electrospin, the tickler, balloon expedition, beach shark, circus coaster, hang glider, island sound, speed boat, tea party, wild river, hapy swing and others.

 

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Ultimate Roller Coaster Ride, melbourne luna park

the most awesome old school roller coaster in the world, melbourne australia,

 

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Luna Park 1903

A summer's day at Coney Island in 1903.Panorama of Luna Park and scenes of comedy team Rube and Mandy sampling the various rides.From an Edison Biograph film,August 13,1903.

 

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Luna Park Crash: Cable snaps on rocket ride

10 lives were left hanging by a thread - literally - when an extreme thrill ride on a rocket-like attraction almost ended in tragedy. Visitors to one of St. Petersburg's amusement parks were in for a nasty shock as a cable snapped on the ride, leaving them suspended in mid-air 70 meters above the ground. Luckily, rescue teams made it to the spot just in time to free the stranded passengers. This isn't the first safety scare at the amusement park. Two years ago, a 12-year old girl suffered serious injuries after a trampoline accident - also involving a snapped cable.

 

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finds a user from Canada on Nov 23, 2011
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