Mardi Gras motion picture house destroyed by fire
| Title: | Mardi Gras motion picture house destroyed by fire | 
| Description: | Aerial view of section of amusement park with three fire trucks in foreground and many parked and moving automobiles and several pedestrians in background. Caption: "Smoke and a tangle of fire hoses marked Coney Island's main street today when the mardi Gras motion picture house at 1243 Surf Ave. was destroyed by fire of undetermined origin."  | 
		
| Date: | 1940 | 
| Location: | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) Coney Island (New York, N.Y.)  | 
		
| More Details: | 
				Cropped: approximately 1/4 of original image appears to be missing. On verso: date inscribed: Jan. 24, 1940. Title from caption on verso.  | 
		
| Collection: | Coney Island						
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| Subject: | 
			
				Amusement parks Fires Streets  | 
		
| Institution: | Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Collection. | 
| Medium: | 
				Aerial views. 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 0098 | 

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