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Coney Island is a peninsula, formerly an island, in southernmost Brooklyn, New York City with a beach on the Atlantic Ocean.

The area was a major resort and site of amusement parks that reached its peak in the early 20th century. It declined in popularity after World War II and endured years of neglect.^[1]

Magicians that have performed at the resort have included:

• Harry Houdini with his brother Dash as "The Brothers Houdini" and met this wife Bess there.
• Al Baker had a photo studio
• Jean Hugard owned and performed in a magic theater in Luna Park (at Coney Island) from 1919-1929.
• Cary Grant (before he was famous) once worked as a stilt walker on the boardwalk advertising Steeplechase Park.
• Al Flosso, known as The Coney Island Fakir, worked in sideshows
• Larry Grey as a magic pitchmen while Dai Vernon cut silhouettes in the same booth. Dai met his wife, Jeanne Hayes at Coney Island.
• Henry Roltair constructed illusions for Coney Island amusements, including the Upside Down House and Arabian Nights Up-to-Date.
• Ralph W. Hull
• Adelaide Herrmann
• David Bamberg
• Eddie Fields

References

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1. ↑ http://www.nysun.com/new-york/coney-island-love-and-magic/37515/