Thompson Coaster

Thompson Coaster
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Title: Thompson Coaster
Description:

Thompson Coaster, a Coney Island ride located on Surf Avenue near 8th Street. Includes a large sign in left foreground, "Fire Works 8: 45 p.m. Starting Tues, July 6. Tues. Eves, July & August."

Date: 1948
Location: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Coney Island (New York, N.Y.)
More Details: Date inscribed on verso: July 25, 1948.
Title from inscription on verso.
Collection: Coney Island
Subject: Amusement parks
Amusement rides
Roller coasters
Signs and signboards
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 0225