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Nicholas Philippides, 54, a bespectacled little Greek immigrant who runs a restaurant in Brooklyn, wearily boarded an IND subway train at the Stilwell Avenue stop near Coney Island amusement park. It was 2 a.m., and Nick was there because he had been helping a friend run a hot-dog stand at the park...
...band music sounds like ragtime with hecklers, and when the Jug Band plays such oldtime tunes as Sweet Sue and Coney Island Washboard, the sounds it makes have a cheerful, giddy quality. Much of the band's appeal is in the delight its audiences take in watching it work all its contraptions. "You can make a noise on everything here," says Washboardist Muldaur, "but it's hard to play a tune...
...York is my wife," he told a friend, and he wed her with his art. In his Battle of Lights, Coney Island, done in 1914, he depicted a warring scene of roller coasters, kaleidoscopic lights and jumbled humanity in a mosaic of maddening motion. His masterpiece, New York Interpreted, finished in 1922, is a 22-ft. pentaptych guidebook to cosmopolitan clangor. The port drags the viewer in to see a leaping skyscraper, two aspects of Broadway and a bridge-an extension of man toward a world beyond or above...
Nassau's Royal Victoria Hotel, open this summer for the first time in years, is nearly booked solid, and the beaches are beginning to look like Coney Island. Anyone who wants to go to Puerto Rico had better start getting in line. Weekend planes are full into September, and San Juan hotels are clipping along at 80% to 90% capacity-despite the fact that 1,293 new rooms were added last year with another 895 abuilding. In most of the Virgin Islands the summer trade runs only 10% to 15% behind the winter season; St. Thomas' three biggest...
...Coney's coony additions are only part of a nationwide move by amusement parks to take the people for a ride. And the take is good: amusement parks show a healthy upswing of attendance this summer. Says Editor Irwin Kirby of the trade's Amusement Business, "It looks like one hell of a season if the weather just gives these boys a break...