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Hanging here are images of Coney Island before weeds turned it seedy, a Canal Street parade of Chinatown butchers holding slaughtered pigs, old men in tweed caps playing bocce in Corona, runners rejoicing past the marathon’s finish line and an ‘I love NY’ plastic bag in an orange wire-mesh garbage can. Here, too, are family snapshots: babies in Brooklyn, Central Park picnickers, mother and son trick-or-treaters, weddings, birthdays and the like...
...first time since The Exodus, professional baseball has returned. The New York Mets recently moved their Single-A minor league affiliate to a new Coney Island facility and renamed it the Brooklyn Cyclones. Memories of the Dodgers have prompted an incredibly warm reception for the low-level club. Three-fourths of the season sold out in three weeks. Cyclones merchandise is flying off shelves all over the region. Brooklyn fans are calling up local sports radio programs to curse the name of Walter O’Malley, the Dodgers owner who orchestrated the infamous move. The Borough of Churches seems...
...willies, do your homework. Check the park's safety records and the incident reports (which parks are required to file in case of accidents that require first aid). Smell the breath of the kid operating the ride. Kick the proverbial tires (for in only a few rides, like Coney Island's legendary Cyclone, is apparent dilapidation part of the appeal...
After rubbing the sleep from his eyes with a fishing boat, tangling with a lighthouse, and eating up a diving bell containing avuncular professor Cecil Kellaway, the Beast faces Army sharpshooter Lee Van Cleef in a final showdown - the Cyclone roller coaster in flames, dying monster lashing out - on Coney Island...
Along with "Beast" and "Beneath the Sea" there was "Earth Vs. the Flying Saucers" - ineradicable images of wrecked saucers slicing through the Capitol Dome - and "20 Million Miles to Earth," where Rome's Coliseum stood in for the Coney Island roller coaster. But by the end of the decade, the genre Harryhausen helped define was dying at the box office. Pop cinema was getting sexier and a lot more violent. As Ray later said about his unsuccessful 1969 picture "Valley of the Gwangi," "A naked dinosaur just was not outrageous enough...