Bangup opening

Bangup opening
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Title: Bangup opening
Description:

Caption: "Bangup opening--Not 'riders in the sky' but whistling fish grace the Coney Island heavens as a record crowd of 400,000 watch the season's first fireworks display [from boardwalk and beach] sponsored by the resort's Chamber of Commerce."

Date: 1949
Location: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Coney Island (New York, N.Y.)
More Details: Grease pencil cropping marks.
On verso: date stamped: Jul[y] 6, 1949.
Title from caption on verso.
Collection: Coney Island
Subject: Boardwalks
Fireworks
Institution: Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Collection.
Medium: Gelatin silver prints.
Photographic prints.
Rights: Copyright restrictions apply to the use of this image. For more information or to obtain a photographic reproduction of this image, contact the Brooklyn Collection at Brooklyn Public Library
ID: CONE 0108