Luna Park, Coney Island Eugene Wemlinger. Luna Park, Coney Island, 1909. Cellulose nitrate negative, 3 1/2 x 5 1/2 in. ( x 14 cm). The Helter Skelter was a hugely popular, adults-only giant slide. From a fifty-foot tower, people would tumble down the slide on little mats, skirts flying, to the amusement of the masses gathered on the ground. Note the base of Luna Park’s two-hundred-foot tower by the lagoon in the background. Covered in thousands of electric lights, it constantly changed colors and was a fixture of nighttime Coney Island. 1909

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