Coney Island

Coney Island, located in New York, is in the city that never sleeps. It’s a peninsular neighborhood, with various attractions near Brooklyn. Thousands of people inhabit it and it has wildly diverse cultures within its community, and always associated with its main attractions, the beaches and the amusement parks. Over time, it has continued to develop culturally and politically and physical through various projects by the community. The name itself established over time, Coney Island, was derived from the Latin word for rabbit, and even today it can be translated as Rabbit Island. The original Dutch colonized settlers most likely called it Rabbit Island (Coney Island) due to rabbits being large in numbers. Which is why the activity of rabbit…

that was developing in the United States. He uses the development and culture of New York’s Coney Island as his main catalyst to define the changes people were going through at the time. The late 1800s and early 1900s really served as a great time of change in the United States. The coherent set of values that were prevalent throughout the 1800s were beginning to change and people were beginning to…

Coney Island, now often unnoticed by the public, was not only created for amusement but to make a major social change that had recently occurred easier. The famous amusement parks heyday coincided with a critical period in American History, when the nation came of age as an urban-industrial society. This new age came with major cultural, economic, and social changes that its citizens were having a hard time adjusting. Genteel reformers decided to attempt to control the growing population to…

Goffman’s concept of front and back space regarding the self is also applicable to the social aspect of Coney Island; Goffman recognized that “the self is that collection of performances that take place in and across specific locations” (Goffman 50). The front, or representational space, of Coney Island is what gained notoriety and fostered an image of family friendliness as well as an escape from reality. Coney Island was a sort of dreamscape where the upper and middle classes had the…

early nineteenth century, America was strictly guided by certain values. American culture at this time felt a formal set of leisure activities enhanced society and stifled any deviant behavior. Structure and limiting cultural activities were about to see a change. Although the elite made an effort to change leisure time, American recreation was going to have a revolution in a sense. An amusement park called, Coney Island was a part of the revolution against genteel culture. John Kasson in his…

It’s the era of prosperity and romantic. At six o’clock in the evening, New York City comes to life again. After ending the hard work in the store, I back home in a hurry and replace my overalls into my tailor-made dress. By the appointment with Jimmy last week, I come to the Board the cruise ship to the Coney Island. In the noisy crowd, I find a familiar shadow that looks genteelly. . . Mr. . . . . Jimmy! He is in here, standing on the deck, seems like waiting for a while. “Good evening, Mr.…

seasons but the fun of it grew out dated. Many say that Frederick Ingersoll and his family helped the spread of the amusement park across the United States. He opened Luna Park three years later in Pittsburgh.This amusement park was one of the first amusement parks to use one of the famous names from Coney Island. There were White Cities, Luna Parks, and Electric Parks all around the United States within the decade. Fredrick Ingersoll opened Luna Park, with a trademark Shoot-the Chutes, in…

The roller coaster traces its origins to Russia, where wood-framed ice slides sent sledders down 70-foot high slopes as early as the 16th century. These Russian Mountains also became popular summertime attractions when wheeled carts rolled riders down large, undulating wooden ramps. What is considered the first successful commercial roller coaster made its debut in 1884 at New York's famous Coney Island. LaMarcus A. Thompson constructed the first roller coaster, the primitive Gravity Switchback…

most popular attractions at the Columbian Exposition was a midway consisting of restaurants, shops, belly dancers, theaters, and a giant wheel designed by George W. Ferris (Baughman et al., 2001). The concept of the amusement park was born. One of the first major amusement parks in the United State was Jones’s Wood in New York City, which hosted such attractions as billiards, bowling, and donkey rides (Baughman et al., 2001). These tame attractions soon made way for more exciting…

A godly aurora uplifts the wooden box, covered in chipping shades of bumblegum pink and gentle blue, from it’s present state on top of my dresser, as it forever holds the jewels of my past. In search of nostalgia, the contents of this unusual box are shrewn across the sheets of the queen-size bed in which I lay; one earring, one bracelet, one partially broken chain, yet they somehow belong there, despite the distinct differences between these memory-deriving ornaments. Within this miscellanous…