Coney Island New York 1940's in Color

Coney Island New York 1940's in Color with music
Video/Film Restoration Efforts:
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* Converted to video
* Converted to 60 frames per second
* Colorized using computer software
* Sound added for effect only
* Color correction stabilization performed
* Historical data added just for nostalgia
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[@wanaraz]

My Mom was there as a very young teenager. She was on the beach with girlfriends and my Dad came walking by from military leave. 6'2 lean and a big a man with jet black hair. They struck up a conversation and that led to 50 years of marriage till he passed. They had a wonderful life together.

[@Kay-RT2020]

Sounds like an awesome love story! ❤

[@kryska367]

Naštěstí za to neoslavuješ Hitlera!!! 🤕

[@binxbolling]

@@kryska367 Hitler has nothing to do with Coney Island.

[@sabrinatscha2554]

I don’t care about you or anyone you love.

[@wanaraz]

@@sabrinatscha2554 Do you need a hug today?

[@MarcKevinSmith]

The guy with the measuring tape, well, I guess someone’s got to do it.

[@garyfrancis6193]

Another tough day at work.

[@sivc.29]

One of the few things I don't like of the past, is the way they treated animals, other than that I'd have loved to be born in those days🤗

[@obscurelyvague]

"Eka C." certain people did not get treated so well either. The mentally ill, under-educated people, people with learning disabilities etc. There didn't exist the kind of handicap access and accommodations on public transit and other public places back then. I think a lot of people who think that the world was so much better back them would be in for a rude awakening if they did get a chance to go back to those times.

[@nickhorn8296]

people of color as well@@obscurelyvague

[@obscurelyvague]

What is sad is the captive tigers . They apparently were mistreated to fear the trainer.

[@triciac1019]

I love to see prices of things from different eras. Love to see the clothes. Some of those rides were so unsafe.

[@harrybriscoe7948]

Do you remember monkey bars ?

[@hilaryapril7043]

Thank you ...as a child we went to Coney Island in the 1950's....lost a finger nail it got stuck in a rented beach chair. I also remember my mom holding me in the pool at Brighton Beach baths? Things weren't perfect but a hell of a lot better than this continuing episode of the twilight zone !!

[@smacksmack5976]

Riis park was better

[@frontandcenter7941]

Yes for white people it was heaven. But for black people it was already the twilight zone you're talking about. Get used to it.

[@roderickfernandez5382]

In the 50s and 60s you go to Riis Park and if you went to the left you were in the gay section if you went to the right you're in the straight section I don't know how it is today but I haven't been there since the sixties. How much it has changed I have no idea. I know I've changed since the sixties I hope they did a better job

[@Tom-ld9hp]

@@roderickfernandez5382 You had to change for the better. Age does that sometimes.

[@worthyisthelamb7]

So true

[@KnockOffBeingFat]

80 years ago. 80! Going into the wonderful decade of the 50's.

[@masoudkh5104]

80!! going into wonderful decade of trump who will win the election and we will live happily ever after and our America will prosper and flourish under Ivanka trump administration .

[@beverlyledbetter4906]

The sixties was my era!✌️

[@Olizimm]

90% of those people are in another world now 🤥🤥🤥

[@timedriverable]

Notice their was hardly any protection as far as safety belts on some of those rides. What a thrill.

[@GammaSierra]

Yea, that was back when people were responsible for their own actions.

[@RaymondCore]

We had Ponchartrain Beach in New Orleans on the south shore of Lake Ponchartrain. It had an amusement park, beach, pools, bathhouses, overhead cable cars, food, and once had a baby elephant wandering around. It closed in 1983.

[@mackdeen7021]

The music of this video would be more appropriate for a video of that beach. And in fact there were two beaches back then. Pontchartrain beach where the amusement park was and Lincoln Beach (African American beach) that had swimming pools on the shore etc.

[@MrNewtonian]

All the Lasses are lovely and chunky, beautifully built.

[@obscurelyvague]

"MrNewtonian" And the lads?

[@MrNewtonian]

@L Martinez can't say I noticed them, I was was looking at the bonny Lasses.

[@ninagoldiloks]

Hey, still are. Imma 75 year young frequent flyer of ole Coney Island and still cute Thx for noticing the chicas ❤💃🐞🇺🇲

[@IrvONeil-fn6cp]

Really good video, beautifully edited & gives a real day at Coney Island! I only went once back then, in the '50s when visiting relatives in Brooklyn, but still remember those bumper cars and and a ride on the Wonder Wheel. Thank you!

[@debbieflaherty1975]

Mr. Irv, You might enjoy the KZbin channel called ‘Recollection Road’! Enjoy!

[@IrvONeil-fn6cp]

@@debbieflaherty1975 Thank you, Debbie! Will check it out!

[@martinchamberlain542]

What an amazing film, it was worth it just for the music!

[@mackdeen7021]

Early century Dixie Land jazz New Orleans style. Great music but most likely not music popular in New York during the 40s. They’d be into big band swing or the Glen Miller orchestras etc. Dixie Land/New Orleans style jazz would have been considered crude and a thing of the past for most of these folks.

[@beverlyledbetter4906]

Which is more 20's than 40's!😒

[@4mySweetheart369]

I loved the trip back in history but ngl I felt sorry for the sideshow people and the tigers.

[@suzihimes1974]

I totally agree with you!

[@jw362]

My grandfather then my uncle owned Lane’s Irish House on a the 9:01 Bowery in Coney Island from around 1910 til it closed in the ‘50’s.

[@sheridangay]

Thanks for this video because Coney Island looks like a really fun place to be back then.

[@MagSeven7]

Great seeing these videos. I grew up in N. Jersey in the '50s and '60s and remember my parents telling me that's where they would go on their "special occasion" dates. To them it cost some serious money to get from Jersey to Coney Island. They took me there as an infant and toddler but, I can't say I actually remember any of it. We'd spend most of our vacations at the Jersey shore by the time myself and my sister were around. Thanks for the memories though!

[@RobbsHomemadeLife]

Imagine being the first person to take a metal detector to the beach at Coney Island.

[@SomeDumUsrName]

02:45 HOLY COW! Noone is strapped in.....not even the little ones.........and they're in the FRONT! THAT's CRAZY! HOW could we EVER have thought this was OK?!?

[@peteranserin3708]

Centripetal force. They are being pushed into their seats.

[@SomeDumUsrName]

@@peteranserin3708 First of all centripetal force doesn't force you to the outside of a rotation. That's centriFUGAL. And, second of all...... Oh yeah...well....that makes it all ok then.......NOT!!!!!! SMFH!! And thridly, there's not enough force for them not to be able to easily overcome it and get up.

[@nadiaks2293]

Потому , что дети тех времён знали , что можно, а что нельзя, были очень воспитанными, а не так , как сейчас- даже замечание сделать ребенку нельзя...

[@obscurelyvague]

@@SomeDumUsrName Thanks for that physics lesson.

[@kathleendolan8876]

Poor poor tigers

[@mrs.g.9816]

I wish those fun parks at Coney Island would all come back!

[@wacobob56dad]

Sorry Mrs. G. Those people have been replaced with people you wouldn’t want to know.

[@jonhcontreras]

that innocent mentality does not exist any more.. instead we have hate groups, gangs and rapists..

[@garyfrancis6193]

@@wacobob56dad Democrats?

[@bartobruintjes7056]

@@garyfrancis6193 No. The Republicans. Creators of the Covid Virus.

[@JohnPiperBoots]

@@garyfrancis6193 YES Demon Rats! ---- #Trump2024

[@CleoS-vx5pd]

Those poor tigers. That idiot man displaying his “power” over an animal that could have killed him in one go if it had wanted to. I’m glad at least some things have progressed for the better. Large predators absolutely do not belong in small cages for human amusement.

[@Lovegun-w4s]

I agree, it really pisses me off to see those animal acts, I just know those poor animals were abused!!!

[@gerardmackay8909]

Absolutely right. All these nostalgists saying how wonderful it was. Cruelty was rife and those tigers exemplify it

[@scottlewisparsons9551]

Go and have a look at Asia and the way they treat animals.

[@alamc200]

@@scottlewisparsons9551 Yeah, that needs to be stopped too.

[@scottlewisparsons9551]

@@alamc200 I couldn’t agree more. That’s the trouble, it’s still occurring somewhere in the world all the time.

[@kv1648]

Wow, the original Luna Park in color. I am told my folks took us little ones to the kiddie rides in Steeplechase Park back in 1964, but I was a toddler and no memories formed. Later, we became regulars at Astroland. I'd heard of the long-ago Dreamland and Luna Park, of course, and I later knew of Nellie Bly Park (renamed a few years ago), but I never saw color footage of Luna. Thanks for posting this!

[@carltwidle9046]

What a crowded beach. Everyone is sitting on each other.

[@harrybriscoe7948]

Good place get away from congestion in town

[@peteranserin3708]

What a great time. Wise guys were all over the place.

[@adammiller2246]

Great job on the video. A lot of memories. Thank you!

[@Salty.Peasants]

Coney Island 1940s: Crowded, loud, clean, very safe. Coney Island 2020s: Crowded, loud, dirty, very unsafe.

[@mackdeen7021]

Clean? Probably not. And there plenty of pick pockets and bullies. At least people weren’t shooting each other but still. It had its rough scenes for sure.

[@brettk9316]

1940s no random druggie needles in the sand to step on, no thank you!

[@davehughesfarm7983]

@@brettk9316 and the (youths) rappers

[@davidmason1577]

When you just have fun, nothing in this day making feel like that 😢

[@obscurelyvague]

"david Mason" It has nothing to do with anything outside of you.

[@prdeacon974]

I lived there in the 80-90s, it had become a cesspool. Now in 2020 it is a nice place to visit again.

[@ChefKevinRiese]

No cell phones or internet? How did they survive?

[@WearertheRESISTENCE]

We made our own entertainments

[@howardweinstein1324]

Coney Island is definitely not like that anymore . The neighborhood changed quite a bit.

[@rstefanie2622]

That's an understatement. White flight of the 50s and 60s took care of what you're seeing here.

[@hilaryapril7043]

Howard...do you still live in Brooklyn ? As a child in the 1950's we lived on Ocean Ave. I know it's changed..I left NYC in 1983. There is a Ukrainian neighborhood there ...is that safe ?

[@Soekke233]

Great,good film

[@skeptigal2785]

@@hilaryapril7043, Brighton Beach ("Little Odessa") seems self-policed and pretty safe. Coney Island side, not so much! Lots of "diversity," littering, broken bottles and trash in the sand, gangs, crime. Sad.

[@williamlacentra2808]

What I Remember growing up in Brooklyn as a child of the fifties --was the worm bait bought on the pier in Coney Island, which I applied to my homemade wire rod --where I flung it over the pier opposite the old Steeplechase park .!

[@tonycollazorappo]

I was born in 1961 in Brooklyn and remember coney island as well, vivid memories too.

[@bobyorke]

Looked like a fabulous fun fair. For those New Yorkers back then, what a treat.

[@EtonieE25]

Oh WOW! Alllllll those bodies on the beach at one time and the crowds…. What a bygone memory of innocence 🙂 We need someone to post as it is now 😢

[@Motormouth2112]

Amazing, Cyclone roller-coaster still running today. Would cut out of class with friends and ride it for a quarter. Once in a while when back in Brooklyn will tye to go for a spin, but it's been closed. Update it's open and I'm Brooklyn bound..

[@Kekulevonstradonitz]

So ein Vergnügen (etwa die Rutschbahn, auf der 10 Leute nebeneinander rutschen können 6:42) ist mir nicht bekannt, wo es das heute geben könnte. Auf den Mann, der seinen Kopf in den Tigerrachen steckt, könnte ich locker verzichten. Zusammengefasst: Eine schöne Zeit, aber mitunter auch ein schönes Gedränge!

[@oldsalt8011]

back when all women were beautiful Cadillacs.

[@glorialetrichdunn8600]

Wonderful video! You do a magnificent job!

[@johndaniels3316]

So sad what's happened to America. Go to Coney Island now. It's genuinely dangerous.

[@obscurelyvague]

"John Daniels" It was worse in the 1970s.

[@luxuryqueen42]

How is Coney Island dangerous?

[@claudiooliveira7856]

America is dead, it's another place now!

[@Tully241]

Same thing happened to Asbury Park N.J.

[@MilaMila20240]

When Coney Island was clean & fun. Now it's a dump. You can catch anything literally. I guess that's everywhere nowadays. 😒

[@MrVosh-nj2lc]

Back then there was a dreaded fear of contracting polio from such beaches. NYC used to dump their trash from barges off shore from Coney Island. I recall my mother's fear of letting me swim at the beach when it was reported that some medical waste was discovered on Coney's beach. Presumably, the waste came from the dumping sites, washed in by the prevailing tides.

[@ratchfordgeorge]

when is the last time you saw someone in a suit on a rollercoaster?

[@666sdkfz]

People had class back then !

[@skeeterbodeen8326]

Dad took me on the Cyclone in the mid-70's when everything in NYC was in the shitter, I was 8yrs old and scared to death that the thing would fall apart...!!

[@mitchsalawine5420]

Me too Skeeter! Right near the ocean with all that salt air eating into it:) Every shriek it made scared me:)

[@GeorgePrice003]

Ask anyone from that time period and they'll tell you those were wonderful years....My mom and dad was from that time period they were born in the 20s....Not many of them left.

[@tomfaz4193]

New York has some of the most beautiful women in the world. So innocent back then.

[@davehughesfarm7983]

Ya outta seen Missouri in the 90's Never ever have I seen such good looking women and I have been around...

[@nickhorn8296]

Missouri in the 90s has to be the most random setting haha@@davehughesfarm7983

[@marklisiecki5790]

It was nice, safe , and beautiful !!!

[@tobiaswillson5900]

Golly Gee i can no† figure it out , what went wrong . ?

[@loughton57]

@@tobiaswillson5900 NWO

[@goognamgoognw6637]

@@tobiaswillson5900 no afro in the video.

[@Rafael-lr4gn]

Better than downtown chicago

[@Mistadontplay89]

​@@goognamgoognw6637 Wow, tuck your racism in. It's showing .

[@zambufly1]

I just turned 30 in 1940. Great times...

[@obscurelyvague]

"zoltzer" Please explain for those not too good at math. What is your age today?

[@1000xtati]

you will be 113 years old this year (2023)? yeah, right 😂😂

[@obscurelyvague]

@@1000xtati Maybe "zoltzer" pressed the number 3 button on the keyboard when he or she intended to press the 2.

[@Mr.Pink1992]

I remember these times. So much fun.

[@samuelmatheis]

seems like nowerdays normal people want to be more distant from each other when doing these things

[@obscurelyvague]

"Samuel Matheis" the better

[@michaeltaylor8835]

RIP Coney Island

[@cmmorris1969]

Thank you for a day of fun! I had a great time!

[@leehowson440]

1940s : I'll give a lovely big smile whilst that man measures my statistics 😁 2023 : Hey, that man touched me, where's my lawyer, I want my freaking lawyer now, and I want that man cancelled immediately 🙄

[@DollyFlowers]

Poor tigers.

[@Lovegun-w4s]

I agree, I just hate seeing stuff like that

[@randolphpinkle4482]

A time before America went absolutely nuts.

[@CandlepowerRecords]

The freaks, the tigers, the fashion show judge with the tape measure. Oh, how times have changed. Great film of history.

[@peter8084]

Interesting video, modern day health and safety zealots would be having heart attacks seeing some of the rides that members of the public were entertained by back then. No restraints !!

[@limitlesky]

what's wrong in caring about safety?

[@peter8084]

@@limitlesky that’s exactly my point, there’s nothing wrong about caring about health and safety, it’s clear that it wasn’t a priority then. Please take a chill pill !

[@limitlesky]

@@peter8084 I just asked a question because you talked about "health zealots". I'm not American so I don't know how it is there. I was not annoyed or anything. Take a chill pill? I guess you need to take the chill pill more than me from your reply

[@peter8084]

@@limitlesky l am and always have been perfectly chilled,as we all usually are in the UK !

[@limitlesky]

@@peter8084 Great !

[@ШамильАльянов]

80 лет прошло - тех людей уже нет , а на видео они есть

[@cynthia8343]

Looks more like the 1930s than the 40s. That man eating the hotdog looked creepy.

[@АндрейМарченко-м8ь]

жизнь очень быстротечна и все мы в ней- только лишь листья на ветру...

[@ШамильАльянов]

@@АндрейМарченко-м8ь да, как- то Буйнов пел песню " Падают, падают, падают листья. Ну и что - зато прозрачный свет ! "

[@Olizimm]

@@АндрейМарченко-м8ь yes, especially in Ruzzia!!

[@jiffcat]

Looks wonderful- as a brit I'm always on the look out for Coney Island Whitefish. We just can't get it over here and it sounds delicious!

[@chairlesnicol672]

Was that Rudy Bundy in clarinet? Thought he was with Ringling Brothers!

[@leftylou6070]

Whitefish is just Cod fish. The ocean is full of it.

[@harrylangdon491]

"Coney Island whitefish" is slang for a used condom (left on the beach or more usually under the boardwalk).

[@chairlesnicol672]

@@harrylangdon491 That doesn't sound very delicious! Enough to drive that visiting Brit home! Lol

[@whyme3286]

Not one women with a tattoo 👍

[@veeherreraJanecka]

and one day they will be looking back at this era. Time keeps moving...

[@cameravisionnyc]

This was "My Coney Island" as I am in my 80's, the rides so unsafe the kid in the revolving tunnel actually left with a good bang on his head everynow and then there was a beauty contest ,the man meausing the womans waste seems to be George Hale he and Milton Berle produced this piece of schlock ,now rightly so considered sexist ,Hale was the choreographer for 1 or 2 George Gershwin's plays on Broadway and a friend of my family.

[@williamlacentra2808]

I am a New york'er in my early seventies-----but Coney Island was my favorite haunt as early as the fifties ----but you taught me something --thank you for the information...!

[@usamade5943]

Yeah, the women really looked victimized. Thank goodness the feminists nowadays have a whole lesbian porn industry for the little girls, without any restrictions. We face societal collapse because they hypocrtically place feelings over facts, like you did with your comment about sexism.

[@michaelt3308]

Back when men couldn't have babies and everybody was happy with 2 genders! Good times for sure

[@crescentmoonhealing4144]

People's genders do not affect your life at all. Get over it. There are real problems in the world.

[@seviregis7441]

Those NY Beaches are never crowded anymore, since cars and air conditioning.

[@badguy5554]

I rememb er a lot of those rides from the early 1950's.... at River View Amusement Park in Chicago.

[@tonybmusic1166]

Wow…..this really brought back some great memories. We used to go there in the 50’s…..loved the place.

[@nomadpi1]

The musical sound-track is Dixieland; a music of the 1920s rather than the 1940s.. All those rides you see, I rode them all as a child and no one worried about you. Those amusement rides were 2 decades old by the 1940s.. They were still available up until the 1950s. You think politicians are repressing your freedom? Insurance companies have repressed and destroyed more freedoms and amusements than any politician in the U.S.A. Those tigers performing were still doing their jobs until PETA killed circuses. I used to go see Clyde Beatty do his lion tamer acts every summer. Take note, all the clothes then were wool, linen. silk. and cotton. Shoes were leather and only leather. No crying about too much sun, no A/C and note that no one was sopping wet on a NYC summer day. No one was inert. You had to go out for your amusement except for radio, Colorization has made the B&W films cause us to more identify with our past citizens. THKS to the work of the people who did this video.

[@LUIS-ox1bv]

Theaters and other establishments had air conditioning. It was used as a enticement for patronage.

[@dklang]

Nice to see this. The rides looked fun, unlike a lot of the ones today. My dad was from L.I. May have even been in the crowd

[@janetgray8638]

In the Uk we had Southend. The London version of Coney Island. Many of the same attractions and just as busy on a sunny weekend. How come everywhere was clean and safe then now these places are run down and sometimes dangerous. What happened????

[@obscurelyvague]

"Janet Gray" Lack of upkeep because of lack of money. Also political reasons.

[@coffee-xg6my]

The styles look more 1930s than 1940s on some of those clips in the first part but I suppose the styles can overlap between the decades.

[@obscurelyvague]

"coffee 86" clothes or hair ?

[@georgerivera8834]

How wonderful ❤️

[@MrRibby88]

What a wonderful time to be an American!

[@williamlacentra2808]

Good old Steeplechase park and it's many attractions will live forever in my mind.!

[@mitchsalawine5420]

That was really great! Thanks for posting it. A look back at the Coney I never knew, before my time and way before The Warriors:)

[@northernlight696]

Fantastic time machine - thanks

[@mackdeen7021]

If you think about it. Those young children at the time (mid to late 40s as this video was obviously post WW2) would have been at Woodstock about 20 years later. I can’t think of a time in history that had more change in society from the post WW2 40s to the the mid/late 1960s. Music, cars, fashion, politics, ideology took an amazing turn in any direction during those two decades.

[@swimlaps1]

@@mackdeen7021 Thought the same! So much changed from 1945 to 1965, etc.

[@iestyndavies2675]

'Nothing'..there's 'nothing' new under the 'sun' Remember that.!

[@coryphillips1783]

I see lots of fun people in the USA used to be able to have, before people got sue happy

[@Cutter-jx3xj]

That was a time of self respect, dignity natural beauty and class in women.

[@waitawhileexplorer3904]

So long ago. Awesome Thank you .

[@SillyGoose2024]

this is the same beach & boardwalk where today they post twerking videos

[@cindiqq2292]

Coney Island and the beach was so crowded! People used to love going out 😊

[@joeyricefried9621]

When people still has respect & class.

[@Blox_fruit_master1]

At that time was there any black people in this world, I don’t see any,ha-ha-ha.

[@mackdeen7021]

More like a human circus.

[@respectamerica2382]

I've been to Coney Island. There are almost no White People there today.

[@respectamerica2382]

Same with Atlantic City.

[@DosYeobos]

Not so much when it came to how they treated black people, disabled people, or mentally ill people.

[@ratchfordgeorge]

some of those rides look down right dangerous.

[@thomasjoseph2050]

When that place was safe, clean and fun! When America was great! Now we are just a memory of what this Country was! Sad!

[@stefaniegodfrey6155]

Look how much fun people had and sooo many people out and about playing and all equally loving each other 💕

[@meme8905]

Except for the black people 🤣

[@ernstgenzs7456]

Civilized America. Unlike today. Decency and civil behavior should be reinforced in schools and at home. Immigration should educate people from certain countries too.

[@Bizagro]

Similar to modern day Japan. Gee what ever could have changed in the US to make such a dramatic difference now?

[@rodpoitras8102]

If this video teaches us anything, it's that there are no black people in New York.....this vid sucks....f'n rednecks!!!

[@obscurelyvague]

@@ernstgenzs7456 Ha ha. You have to notice something about this video.

[@aissamaksene7502]

C'est vraiment beau, cette vision avant que l on soit né

[@cats0182]

If this is the 1940's, why not play music of the 1940's.

[@usamade5943]

They did play 20's music in the 40's.

[@thomasbrower305]

No seat belts, no restraints, no nothing. And yet most people survived.

[@larryaldrich4351]

Safety measures are conspicuously missing.

[@loughton57]

Great video thanks ! Looking for mummy and daddy in the crowd

[@annaket4055]

Beautiful so many people… fun😀😃😊

[@RogerioDec]

I appreciate the effort. I suggest that in the next videos, make sure the filters are not so forced, because in this video people's faces look unreal, in many cases even looking like dolls.

[@skeptigal2785]

Uh, those WERE dolls (or wax figures).

[@americanwoman9342]

Absolutely frightening watching the rides, totally full of people, with NO SECURITY BARS or BELTS..

[@johnfoy2840]

Great choice of music!! Made it all the more fun. I can tell by Steeplechase's Traver Circle Swing at the 2:44 mark that this was shot precisely in the year 1940. Thanks for this most endearing and educational post. 😁😁😁 (btw People can now find this on KZbin's Awesome Coney Island Videos..... kzbin.info/aero/PLZY0gh4CnM6glItC0gJ3lbZ2xQJpVx0RU&si=8eMi-0H9j4tEqP20 )

[@popnostalgia6770]

Some nice film shot in the 1940's. Good stuff. 😀

[@sound-of-silence-1]

great capture of the time

[@edwindelgado8775]

I bet almost all those people have passed on and few remain 🤔nice going back in time🙂

[@SMartinTX]

The toddlers on the ride at 2:09 would be in their mid to late 80s today if they're still around.

[@FenceThis]

Ex Rolling Stones bassist was born in 1936, still around and playing

[@DollyFlowers]

I work in a nursing home lots of them there.

[@christinecollins6648]

My Dad was Born in 1933 and recalled going to Coney Island as a kid- he just passed this year😢

[@obscurelyvague]

"Edwin Delgado| If you really could, you would be shocked.

[@mrvk39]

4:00 that guy with a corncomb shoves a kid away from the frame and then the kid gives him horns later as revenge LOL

[@usamade5943]

Actually, if you look closely it's not the little boy who gives the horns. There is what looks like a black kid giving the man devil's horns. A precursor of things to come...

[@harminderkaur4759]

What a wonderful memorable video so good amazing 👌👌👌👍

[@matrox]

Damn shame that freaks had to work at an amusement park like zoo animals to get paid to survive.

[@larryb982]

Very interesting thanks for the upload

[@CaptainYourself]

No tattoos, nose piercings or blue hair. 80 years ago was safer, more prosperous, and more united.

[@KerryEriksson]

Looked like a fun place to go

[@williamschlenger1518]

I love all the hand lettered signs.Asbury Park had the same rides back then Great Video

[@mollytorra9949]

Any special reason why they played 1920's jazz over footage of the 1940s?