Order By PhoneAbout Our Loop The Loop Vintage Photograph. Coney Island, the American birthplace of amusement parks. Vintage photograph 1901. This ride was called the loop the loop, for a very good reason! A man by the name of Edwin Prescott built this roller coaster. Back then it was considered an engineering wonder. Coney Island is the Tom-Tom of America. Every nation has, and needs-and-loves-its Tom-Tom. It has needs of orgiastic escape from respectability-that is, from the world of What-we-have-to-do into the world of What-we-would-like-to, from the world of duty that endureeth forever into a world of joy that is permitted for a moment. -Richard Le Gallienne, 1905, Cosmopolitan Magazine. Add some instant history to your walls with our collection of vintge images from the late 19th and early 20th century. Take a glimpse at the world in which our ancestors lived - the people, their struggle, their play, and their time in between. A mosaic of images depicting those hard and eventful years of our grandparents and great grandparents, presented, as they would appear back in those rough and tumble days.
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