Coney Island Dreamland Boardwalk Stroll 4x6 Reprint Of Old Photo

Coney Island Dreamland Boardwalk Stroll 4x6 Photo Created by a Tammany Hall-connected businessman, William H. Reynolds, Dreamland was supposed to be a high-class entertainment, with elegant architecture, pristine white towers and some educational exhibits along with the rides and thrills. It was reputed to have one million electric light bulbs illuminating and outlining its buildings, quite a novelty at the time. Among Dreamland's attractions were a railway that ran through a Swiss alpine landscape; imitation Venetian canals with gondolas; a "Lilliputian Village" with three hundred dwarf inhabitants; and a demonstration of fire-fighting in which two thousand people pretended to put out a blazing six-story building. There was also (strange as it sounds today) a display of baby incubators, where premature babies were