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...Mount St. Helens. Experts might challenge Luongo's contention that the best botanical garden is in St. Louis (New York City's in The Bronx is at least bigger); that the Beast at King's Island in Ohio is the wildest roller coaster (over Coney Island's Cyclone?); that the premier Cabernet Sauvignon wine comes from the Napa Valley's Heitz Cellars (some might award this prize to the Robert Mondavi reserve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: America's Best | 8/11/1980 | See Source »

...York City's teeming Lower East Side and left school early. From his Neapolitan mother, he inherited his legendary nose. From his French-Italian father, a barber, he got the encouragement to study the piano. By age 17, "Ragtime Jimmy" was performing in saloons from Coney Island to Chinatown, with a singing waiter named Eddie Cantor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: A King of Vaudeville | 2/11/1980 | See Source »

...coast on his past achievements, Richard Rodriguez, 22, was riding high last week on the Florida Hurricane near Orlando. He already held four Guinness world records for roller-coaster riding, his first at age 18 with 104 hours aboard Coney Island's celebrated Cyclone. Now he was out for his fifth, this time on the Hurricane, which climbs and plunges along a 3,500 ft. course for two minutes at speeds of up to 60 m.p.h...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Marathon Man | 1/28/1980 | See Source »

...Nantasket have always been adjacent to amusement parks, and the hush of the waves is complimented by traffic noise and the sound of nearby mechanical thrills. Revere Beach, however, is beginning to clean up its act--the amusements are going elsewhere, and the beach is expected to lose its Coney Island Jr. atmosphere. All of these beaches are accessible by subway. There is no admission, no parking...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: Like Lemmings to the Sea... | 7/6/1979 | See Source »

Bereft of his old band the Velvet Underground, his "rock and roll animal" stage mask, and now even his voice, credibility is about all Lou Reed can lay claim to today. His recent studio albums have each shed a successive layer of his personality-on Coney Island Baby, he sang "I want to play football for the coach"; on Street Hasslehe sang "I want to be black"; on The Bells, nothing is left but his ashen, wasted face...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Notes from Underground? | 5/23/1979 | See Source »

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