40's Coney Island Rides

Here is over four minutes of Coney Island's rides from the 1940's in high quality b&w. Roller coasters, ferris wheels merry go rounds bumper cars and all kinds of whirling twisting moving machines. It ends with some very nice nightime shots of the lights. As with the other Coney Island videos I've posted they are from an excellent video called Coney Island that is available for free download at http://www.archive.org/index.php which is a goldmine of all kinds of media and information.

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• Coney
• island
• new
• york
• side
• show
• amusement
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• rides
• roller
• coasters
• ferris
• wheels
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[babecat2000]

The thing that goes upsidedown is still around today I was shocked to see that. I kinda laughed the roller coaster is 90 feet high that's a kiddie ride now.

[MindsiMedia]

@babecat2000 Is there much else still standing from this film?

[stargate121]

I love those insanely dangerous rides.

[shortyfosho11]

they should puutt half of these rides again they look more fun

[duh1tschris]

1:40.. ouch.

[louseal]

@nomadseawolf they're not all dead - unlike the little mandrils