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A couple of weeks ago we spontaneously decided to head out to Coney Island. Guess what …never been there – which is ridiculous given that it is a short ride from here (well longer by subway). But we finally did it and it was fun even though after season.
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Love all the colors and dorky vantage signs and I love this color combo of navy blue, light blue, pink and orange. Def. a good color combo in my book to keep in mind.
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As you can see not many people there at this time of the year but it was sunny and beautiful.
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I do love a good boardwalk for sure.
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Super fun building and not sure if you can spy it but the two figures on the top are wearing masks. Coney Island may seem a bit vintage-y but has its finger on the pulse of time LOL
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Love the murals on the side of the – I think aquarium but I might be mistaken.
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Another nice color combo with the different yellows and blue and some black.
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Hahah- you gotta love New Yorkers and their signs …I mean …why sugar coat
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Loved all the lines and the Cyclone sign is awesome. The Cyclone is a wooden roller coaster from 1927 and still runs during the season. I have had many friends telling me it comes with serious back problems – LOL. but I think one day I want to try it. Have you been on it yet? Let me know how it is.
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Also a fun view.
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And those fake vintage signs were fun on the side of a building. Love the very saturated colors.
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Stickers everywhere.
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Nathan’s was unfortunately closed but the sign still brought me lots of joy. I mean I am German after all and we do like places that sell sausage ;)
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It was wonderful to walk at the beach a little bit.
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Couldn’t explore this area further where a lot of free standing walls with murals were standing- since it was fenced off. But maybe next time.
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A couple minutes from Coney Island is Brighton Beach also known as “Little Odessa” due its tight-knit Russian and Eastern European communities which is reflected by the stores and signs.
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I wanted to go there because of it’s interesting architecture in terms of apartments buildings build around 1900- 1930s
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The brick work on some of those buildings is just amazing – alternating colored bricks making patterns and adding interest
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Raised bricks forming patterns. And those are huge buildings. Amazing!
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Loved the wonderful iron door and also the entrance tiles.
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An wonderful art deco apartment facade with chevron and speed lines. You know I have an art deco crush, no?
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Be still my heart – look at this magnificent entrance and the wonderful colored terra cotta tiles. I could not stop swooning in front of this building.
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Another incredible entrance. Sometimes the building itself was built pretty simple but the entrance was always done in a grand way.
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Loved the paving in a front yard towards the entrance- great pattern! I actually took the photo because I have three stamps that could make this pattern up :) Maybe you see something soon that resembles this pattern in my art journal ;)
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Loved the blue painted bricks in the facade and the blue fire escape.
It was a great day – we had fun exploring a different area of Brooklyn . I cannot wait to explore more.
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Lani
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Such a fun trip down memory lane.
My parents were dating when they went to Coney Island, as I did later with my husband. I still have a knife left from the set we won at the “bowling machine”.
I went to kindergarten with Nathan’s grandson (Handworker) @1951.
For years, my parent’s would wake me up in the middle of the night because they wanted a Nathan’s hot dog and couldn’t leave me alone in bed on Ocean Pkwy & Ave. K.
When I was 18 I “ran away” from home and became a nanny in Brighton Beach Towers. I often shopped under “The El” in B.B.and at the “Shlock” shop owned by Neil Diamond’s parents. This was all before the Russians (rumored to be “The Mob”) took over. I baby-sat Lieba & Neil Sedaka’s kids also; friends of the people I worked for. My husband’s grandmother lived in one of those buildings. And his parents lived in a co-op 1 train stop before Coney Island.
That was before we left to live in our VW van for 3 months, ending up here at the beach in Hermosa Beach in 1970.
It has been a strange and winding road!
?Thanks for the memories…?
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vivian
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Your ‘eye for photos’ is awesome!! Not the usual ‘eye’ but SO creative! I love the ART DECO
also, a very special time in architecture and architects.
I also want to say this was also a study of ‘fireescapes’ against the lovely patterned brick walls.
SO MUCH INSPIRATION!!
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Marge
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Thanks for the great pictures, they bring back many memories for me. Marge
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