Coney Island Brooklyn NY 1940 - Part 1

Coney Island Beach and Amusement Park 1940.
Video begins with the song CONEY ISLAND
sung in Yiddish and English by the BARRY
SISTERS. Then it continues to show the
amusement rides and a beauty contest.

Сёстры Бэрри
イディッシュ語

שיעור יידיש

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• Coney
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• Yiddish
• ייִדיש
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• Сёстры
• Бэрри
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• Idish
• Idishe
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• BARRY
• SISTERS
• yddish
• Кони-Айленд
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• 依地語

[nicoleayanna]

was there no black people there, at this time, because this was the jim crow era and they weren't allowed there ?

[albertdiner]

If you look carefully at 1:20, I see some black

people in the crowd. I wonder if they were

allowed to use the beach. Terrible discrimination.

[ctmale1956]

there is a beach in FLA that, I believe is on the east coast of northern FLA that the black were allowed to swim and it was their own beach.....how nice. Oh yes, it was well known that that particular beach was a feeding and breeding ground for sharks....LOL.....yo yo yo yo yo ---- hey sharks --- any dark meat????? hahahha

[ctmale1956]

@albertdiner yeah --- well go and look at videos of this place in the 60's and 70's --- the blacks and others turned it into a ghost town......TERRIBLE DISCRIMINATION.....geez.....

[mozfreak84]

@nicoleayanna some parks prohibited black and whites from intermingling. some parks would designate "negro days" where black could patronize the park. Most blacks, however, hardly attended these amusement parks because of the discrimination and would frequent colored beaches instead.

[talochIV]

Man, what pretty gals in the beauty contest.

[applespice77]

Black people enjoyed Coney in the 40's. However, the beach was segregated in the 30's. That part of beach was known as "chicken bone", beach according to my Aunt.

I also have pics of her on the beach in one of those bathing suits that came down to the knee.

When we were children she would take us after work, by subway, and we would enjoy the amusements, and have our pistachio cone and slice of pizza.

[lewsimo]

please this was before 1960...African american people were most certainly allowed

At the beach all was cool...

[2reeler]

Thanks for posting this great old time Coney Island film! Its great to see the funny old rides and all the people out to beat the heat before they had air conditioning in houses! I really enjoyed all the pretty bathing beauties. What a great place it was to people watch!

[jazzharr69]

oh those were amazing days in the forties taking the trolly from Brighton Beach to Coney Island and a whole days At Steeplechase Parks and Nathans hot dogs for lunch.

[sf415RudeDog]

damn so0 many people on dat beach