English subtitles for clip: File:Coney Island (ca. 1940s).ogv

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🎵 Coney Island, the world's greatest
fun frolic, with its beach miles

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long all peppered with people.

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The place where merriment is king. 🎵 Let's

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mingle with one million folks.

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Folks who are just like all of us.

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Ten hundred thousand youngsters and oldsters.

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All swimming, playing or resting.

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All getting their share of the sun and the fun.

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All refugees from the city heat.

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Here where the beach meets the cool Atlantic.

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Here in this great world full of joy.

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Here for a lark at Coney Island.

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World's biggest barrel of fun. 🎵 Some take it

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easy on the four million dollar boardwalk.

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While others snap pictures for a proof
back home that they really were part of

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this fun seeking throng. 🎵 With amusements
here, there and everywhere, it's

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hard to decide where to start.

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Rivers of humanity in carnival mood
pour through Coney's many streets.

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Hurry, hurry, step this way,
the strangest sights on the island!

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Freaks from the four corners of the world.

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What you nickels, one dime,
a tenth part of a dollar.

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We've got the show if you've got the dime.

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It's just starting.

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So hurry, hurry,
look them over: the lady without a head.

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There are thin ones, there are fat ones.

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They're all inside.

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Zip and pip the pin-headed people.

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A sample of the marvelous freaks you'll
see for the price of a small thin dime.

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You get the whole show now.

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You hurry, hurry, hurry.

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Step right this way, friends.

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You can't go home without a permanent souvenir.

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Now take your places.

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That's right.

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Now very still.

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A big broad smile.

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Watch the birdie and presto.

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We have down on the farm right at Coney Island.
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Speed demons of tomorrow
getting someplace today.

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Surprises galore, cries and screams of
delight in these cars that tilt and slide.

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From one attraction to another,
the eager million moves on.

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Even the kiddies fly high at Coney.

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Everybody rides on

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any and every kind of gadget that means motion,
speed, thrills and laughs.

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Now this looks easy.

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Just a matter of hanging on,
but hanging on to what?

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Faster it goes and here they
spill in every direction.

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It's fun for riders and spectators too.

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If it turns and twists or rocks and shakes,

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it's here at Coney Island.

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And all the swings in this huge fun
center is not on a dance floor.

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Atlantic Ocean breezes and laughter
make appetites keen at Coney.

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Dinner time is any time, all the time.

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A million hungry people to feed.

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And the cost begins at a dime.

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And the youngsters have their own
ideas for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

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Corn on the cob.

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A Coney specialty.

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Steaming ears smothered with butter and salt.

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With thousands of bushels enjoyed every day.

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But Coney Island's greatest eating
invention is the Frankfurter.

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For it was here when the place was
a sandbar known as Coney Cook that

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the hot dog was born.

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Zowie, it's Coney Island caviar.

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After dinner it's time to check your weight.

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He'll guess within three pounds
or it costs you nothing.

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Coney's most famed free attraction is its
big bathing girl review where mermaids

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from near and far vie for honors.

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Those who brave the surf and those who
never go near the water parade before big

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crowds and critical judges.

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Blondes, brunettes and redheads.

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All so shapely and lovely that the judges'
job is exacting.

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Ladies and gentlemen it is our
pleasure to present Miss Coney Island.

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Here they come. Head over heels upside down.
What's the difference?

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Here at Coney's Steeplechase
Park the fun never ends.

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So let's cool off high up in the ocean breeze.

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Shows of every kind invite the crowd.

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Shows that make us grip
our seats with excitement.

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Shows like this where ferocious
tigers from distant lands

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come to quicken our blood.

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Bang and claw matched with nerves of steel.

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Playful fellows aren't they?

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One of the cats shows us how they
do the tiger rag in jungle land.

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Want to cut in? You can if you want.

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Now hold your breath.

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Ah, the man who didn't lose his hand.

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From the jaws of a tiger to the
hoopla and hoopla it surely is.

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Down she goes and round and round up
and down going nowhere in a hurry.

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Action.
No matter how you land so long as it's action.

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Now for the good old merry-go-round
carousel flying horses.

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Whatever we call them they afford a merry
world for youngsters from six to sixty.

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Then action again on whirling discs.

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Or shooting the chutes at a mile a minute.

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Or standing on your head and seeing the
world upside down in this looper plane.

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Or riding to the top of the
park to see the whole show.

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Only to face a vertical drop of ninety feet.

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Some scream, some grow pale,
but everybody shouts.

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It never seems to end!

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Drop after drop, rise and twist and turn.

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But at last it's happy landing
and my oh my where have we been.

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Dusk descends. Night crowds pour in to
swell the mighty merry making throng.

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Millions of lights frame the
resort in a pattern of moving joy.

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Fantastic shapes pierce the crisp coastal air.

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The sky becomes a living lace
work of brilliance and color.

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Long into the night the crowds make
merry with laughter, song and fun.

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Coney Island, a mecca by day,
a glittering spectacle by night.

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The dynamic fun land of a nation.