6/28/2023 0 Comments Dreamland by Kevin Baker![]() ![]() The area hosted a trio of great playgrounds - Steeplechase, Luna Park, and Dreamland - each striving to be more extravagant and exciting than its neighbor, the three together forming a beachside city of lights, so bright that nighttime ship passengers approaching Manhattan from far off in the Atlantic were convinced that New York City was burning to the ground. ![]() And not always pleasant fiction, either.Ī "perpetual circus" is how one historian described Coney Island at its height. The whole enterprise sounds like fiction nowadays. ![]() When writing a novel set amongst New York's Coney Island amusement parks during the first decade of the 20th century, an author's greatest challenge may be to make the features and follies of those places seem credible. ![]()
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