This is episode 12 of the Bowery Boys

Coney Island the Golden Age. Hey, it's the Bowery Boys. Hey

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Hello there and welcome to the Bowery Boys. I'm Greg Young and I'm Tom Myers. Thanks for tuning in this week

We've got a really cool episode. I think coming up. We certainly hope. Yeah, this is episode number 12 on Coney Island

And I guess episode number 13 is gonna be on Coney Island, too. Yeah, this will be our first two-parter

We just we decide we set down with this information. I mean, let's be honest

You could have a whole weekly podcast just on Coney Island, right? And that's actually a good idea

So if you're listening and you're an enthusiast try it. It's not that well. We want to hear it

I'm just gonna say it's not that hard, but

Right, we just make it look easy. Anyway, Coney Island history is so rich

It's so fantastic that we have a lot of unique facts in store for you

Well, we want to put them in a little bit of a different way

We're actually going to take you back not to the beginning, but to the peak of Coney Islands golden age

We're going to take you back to 1904

So strap on your time machine belt or whatever time machine vessel in which you have sitting around

Set it to 1904 summertime the week before Labor Day come back with us. Let's go there now

It's 1904 and you decided to take off for Manhattan and ahead for Coney Island for the day for day of relaxation or day of amusement

It's hot in the city and you take the train the Coney Island and Brooklyn railroad that's been open since 1860

Straight into Coney Island and

Once you get out of the station you step out. What is it? You see there's just so much going on that your eyes can't really take it in

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