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Steeplechase Park was an amusement park that operated in the Coney Island neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City, United States, from 1897 to 1964. Steeplechase Park was created by the entrepreneur George C. Tilyou as the first of the three large amusement parks built on Coney Island, the other two being Luna Park (1903) and Dreamland (1904).
Title: Steeplechase Park at night, Coney Island, N. Y. Created/Published: Acacia Card Company, 258 Broadway, New York 7, N.Y. Date issued: 1930 - 1945 (approximate) Physical description: 1 print (postcard) : linen texture, color ; 3 1/2 x 5 1/2 in. Genre: Postcards Subjects: Amusement parks; Amusement rides Notes: Title from item.
Steeplechase Park, Coney Island, 1910. Cellulose nitrate negative, 3 1/2 x 6 in. (8.9 x 15.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn Museum/Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn ...
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The Steeplechase Face was the mascot of the historic Steeplechase Park, the first [1] of three amusement parks in Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York. [2] It remains a nostalgic symbol of Coney Island and of amusement areas influenced by it. [ 3 ]
George Cornelius Tilyou (1862–1914) was an American entrepreneur and showman who founded New York City's Steeplechase Park. Born in New York City, his parents had operated businesses in Coney Island from his early childhood. He founded Steeplechase in 1897, and rebuilt it entirely after a 1907 fire.
Between about 1880 and World War II, Coney Island was the largest amusement area in the United States, attracting several million visitors per year. [2] Sea Lion Park opened in 1895 and was Coney Island's first amusement area to charge entry fees; [3] [4] this in turn spurred the construction of George C. Tilyou's Steeplechase Park in 1897, the neighborhood's first major amusement park.
The Parachute Jump is a defunct amusement ride and a landmark in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, along the Riegelmann Boardwalk at Coney Island.Situated in Steeplechase Plaza near the B&B Carousell, the structure consists of a 250-foot-tall (76 m), 170-short-ton (150 t) open-frame, steel parachute tower.