About This Item

  • Call NumberCONE_0098
  • TitleMardi Gras motion picture house destroyed by fire
  • SummaryAerial view of section of amusement park with three fire trucks in foreground and many parked and moving automobiles and several pedestrians in background. Caption: "Smoke and a tangle of fire hoses marked Coney Island's main street today when the mardi Gras motion picture house at 1243 Surf Ave. was destroyed by fire of undetermined origin."
  • Date1940
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 6 x 9 in.
  • Genreaerial viewsgelatin silver printsphotographic prints
  • NoteCropped: approximately 1/4 of original image appears to be missing. On verso: date inscribed: Jan. 24, 1940. Title from caption on verso.
  • Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
  • SubjectAmusement parks ; Fires ; Streets
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Coney Island (New York, N.Y.)
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • RightsCopyright restrictions apply to the use of this work. For more information or to obtain a reproduction of this work, contact the Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library.
  • FolderFolder: Coney Island: Fires - 1932, 1939, 1940, 1947, 1948