Coney Island-Ada Jones, Len Spencer, Cal Stewart

[horarwgt]

Although this track is unidentified by the poster, this may be "Uncle Josh's Trip To Coney Island" (Edison 10149), which charted at #8 the week of July 31, 1909. Len Spencer died in 1914.

[owtatowttowt]

cheers for that, nancy. I only knew it was in 1922. I saw on findagave.

[owtatowttowt]

like it alot. she was the origional comedienne & could do all sorts of accents. Irish, Inglish (shi was fae Lancashire), others. shame what happened to her, though. cancer? in '22. so sad. and Florrie Forde, Marie LLoyd, Sibyl Sanderson Fagan, others...

[nancyven]

@owtatowttowt Ada Jones was my Great Aunt, she didn't die of cancer she died from an epileptic seizure.

[opelske]

Fabulous!

[bedtel]

I have Cal Stewert on many Edison cyl

ender records It is a pleasure to listen to him over video. He is the top comedian of his generation

[richragsdale]

awesome

coney island is one of my favorite places on earth

this footage is so dreamy

[jxhensley]

Americans who don't know how to eat a hot dog. It boggles the mind.

[cestlaverite]

Umm, this was a comedy short produced by Edison Studios about a couple country hicks, Rube and Mandy, who visit Coney Island. They're ACTORS pretending not to know how to eat a hot dog.

[jxhensley]

Doesn't matter. That there was a time when it would even be credible as comedy material is mind-boggling enough.

[cestlaverite]

Okay, I see. You're just trolling. Silly replies like that are a dead give-away. Never mind.

[PappaWheelie]

possibly the greatest thing on youtube