• Luna Park is an amusement park in Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York City. It opened on May 29, 2010, at the site of Astroland, an amusement park that had...
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    Luna Park was an amusement park that operated in the Coney Island neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City, United States, from 1903 to 1944. The park...
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  • Luna Park may refer to one of two parks located in Coney Island: Luna Park (Coney Island, 1903) Luna Park (Coney Island, 2010) This article includes a...
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    the first Luna Park, which opened in 1903 during the heyday of large Coney Island parks. Luna parks are small-scale attraction parks, easily accessed...
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    The Cyclone, also called the Coney Island Cyclone, is a wooden roller coaster at Luna Park in Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York City. Designed by Vernon...
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  • 1903) Luna Park (Coney Island, 2010) Luna Park, Denver Luna Park, Detroit Luna Park Glenelg Luna Park Hamburg-Altona Luna Park, Houston Luna Park, Johnstown...
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    via the Coney Island History Project Oral History Archive. Coney Island has two amusement parks, Luna Park and Deno's Wonder Wheel Amusement Park, as well...
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    named Luna Park, perhaps after the first park of that name, the 1903 Luna Park on Coney Island, or Luna Park, Seattle, opened in 1906. Melbourne's Luna Park...
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    last of the three original large parks built on Coney Island, along with Steeplechase Park and Luna Park. The park was between Surf Avenue to the north...
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    "Luna Park" was opened at Coney Island, New York in 1903. The first Luna Park in Australia opened in St Kilda, Melbourne in 1912, followed by Luna Park...
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    Coney Island has been featured in novels, films, television shows, cartoons, and theatrical plays. Coney Island is often mentioned in the stories of O...
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    Astroland (category Coney Island)
    Astroland was a 3.1-acre (1.3 ha) amusement park in Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York City that first opened in 1962. It was located at 1000 Surf Avenue...
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    made Coney Island the embodiment of the American amusement park. In addition there was Luna Park (opened in 1903) and Dreamland (opened in 1904). Coney Island...
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    Park was created by the entrepreneur George C. Tilyou as the first of the three large amusement parks built on Coney Island, the other two being Luna...
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    The Coney Island–Stillwell Avenue station (also known as Coney Island Terminal and signed on some trains as either Coney Island or Stillwell Avenue) is...
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    Topsy (elephant) (category Coney Island)
    Coney Island's Sea Lion Park. Sea Lion was leased out at the end of the 1902 season and during the construction of the park that took its place, Luna...
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    location in the Steeplechase amusement park on Coney Island. It ceased operations in the 1960s following the park's closure, and the frame fell into disrepair...
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    on Coney Island, including the New York Aquarium, Luna Park, Deno's Wonder Wheel Amusement Park, and Maimonides Park. It has become an icon of Coney Island...
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    made Coney Island the embodiment of the American amusement park. Coney Island also featured Luna Park (1903) and Dreamland (1904). Coney Island was a...
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    Soarin' Eagle (category Coney Island)
    Eagle is a steel roller coaster located at the Scream Zone at Luna Park in Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York. The ride was the first ever Zamperla "Volare"...
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  • It ceased operation in 2008, and was eventually sold to Luna Park in Coney Island in 2010, where it was installed in 2011 after being refurbished and...
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    "Corporate - Luna Park in Coney Island". Luna Park in Coney Island. Retrieved 2016-04-21. Povoledo, Elisabetta (April 23, 2010). "Coney Island Gets an Italian...
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    Shoot the Freak (category Coney Island)
    and modernize Coney Island and create a new park called Luna Park, the Italian firm Zamperla tried to coerce several existing Coney Island boardwalk attractions...
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    Dip, Coney Island. Virginia Reel at Luna Park, Coney Island opens as the world's first spinning roller coaster. Scenic Railway opens at Luna Park, Melbourne...
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    Central Park. The carousel was made by Solomon Stein and Harry Goldstein in 1908. It was originally installed in a trolley terminal in Coney Island, Brooklyn...
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    Wonder Wheel (category Coney Island)
    150-foot-tall (46 m) eccentric Ferris wheel at Deno's Wonder Wheel Amusement Park at Coney Island in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. The wheel is located on...
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  • 2015. "Public Sale: Coney Island Amusement Company". The Gazette Times. Pittsburgh. November 8, 1908. p. S5-5. "White City Park (Penn Hills, Pennsylvania...
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    land. Feltman's operation began operating a pushcart pie wagon at the Coney Island beach in 1867, selling fresh pies to beachfront hotels. When his customers...
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  • companies. After 1903, the success of Coney Island inspired a proliferation of parks named Luna Park and Electric Park,[page needed] while the World's Columbian...
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    example in 1895 for Sea Lion Park at Coney Island. The ride was widely copied and "chute" rides were found at many amusement parks throughout the United States...
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