Amanda Deutch

Memories of riding the Steeplechase Horses, Human Roulette Wheel and Parachute Jump 70 years ago

President of the Coney Island Polar Bear Club for the past 12 years and a member since the 1980s

Memories of working at Coney Island’s pony track as a boy in the 1940s for “no pay, just tips”

Memories of working at Astroland’s Neptune Diving Bells in the summer of 1964

Boyhood memories of Ocean Tide Baths and the B&B Carousell’s Lincoln horse

Growing up on West 16th Street between Mermaid and Neptune in a cold water flat in the 1940s and ’50s

Memories of growing up on Brighton First Court and a summer job renting beach chairs in Coney Island

Environmental justice organizer who was born in Coney Island and raised here in the 1960s and ’70s

Memories of riding the Parachute Jump and Steeplechase horse race ride in the 1950s

Got a tattoo of the Astroland Rocket in honor of her first date in Coney Island

A Brooklyn native’s boyhood memories of Washington Baths and Steeplechase Park

Girlhood memories of growing up on West 5th Street in Coney Island before being displaced by Warbasse

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