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| 1 |  |
1:34 PM I've just gotten off the subway. | |
| 2 |  |
1:45 PM Inside the new staging area on W 21st St. | |
| 3 |  |
1:46 PM | |
| 4 |  |
1:47 PM | |
| 5 |  |
1:48 PM | |
| 6 |  |
1:48 PM | |
| 7 |  |
1:49 PM This street is where the entrance is to the Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey circus. This is their first summer in Coney Island. | |
| 8 |  |
1:53 PM As you can see it was rather crowded this year. The street was narrower and people were bunched up at one end. | |
| 9 |  |
2:09 PM Out on the parade route this monster truck ran the route backwards. This is a Ford promotional vehicle for their Monsters On Mainstreet contest. | |
| 10 |  |
2:14 PM Someone is walking away from the starting line. | |
| 11 |  |
2:14 PM The parade starts. I've positioned myself at W. 16th St. | |
| 12 |  |
2:15 PM Dick Zigum leads the parade. He owns the Coney Island Side Show and is the "mayor" of Coney Island. | |
| 13 |  |
2:15 PM The fellow on the left makes all the parades, including the West Indian one and all the gay pride ones. | |
| 14 |  |
2:16 PM | |
| 15 |  |
2:16 PM Note the clown nose she is wearing. The circus was passing these out by the bucket full. | |
| 16 |  |
2:16 PM | |
| 17 |  |
2:16 PM | |
| 18 |  |
2:16 PM Pink Inc. creates tension fabric structures. They come every year with new costumes. See last year. | |
| 19 |  |
2:17 PM Pink Inc. again. | |
| 20 |  |
2:17 PM The Roller Coaster. | |
| 21 |  |
2:17 PM | |
| 22 |  |
2:18 PM | |
| 23 |  |
2:18 PM | |
| 24 |  |
2:18 PM | |
| 25 |  |
2:19 PM | |
| 26 |  |
2:19 PM | |
| 27 |  |
2:20 PM | |
| 28 |  |
2:20 PM | |
| 29 |  |
2:20 PM | |
| 30 |  |
2:20 PM | |
| 31 |  |
2:21 PM | |
| 32 |  |
2:21 PM Suzanne Muldowney, better known as Underdog Lady. | |
| 33 |  |
2:22 PM | |
| 34 |  |
2:22 PM | |
| 35 |  |
2:22 PM The Rude Mechanical Orchestra. | |
| 36 |  |
2:23 PM The Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey circus entered the parade this year. | |
| 37 |  |
2:24 PM I guess these instruments don't take well to water. | |
| 38 |  |
2:24 PM Marty Markowitz is the Brooklyn Borough President. He loves to attend Brooklyn events. | |
| 39 |  |
2:25 PM The NY Aquarium entered a float this year. | |
| 40 |  |
2:26 PM | |
| 41 |  |
2:26 PM Throwing beads to the crowds is growing in popularity. Of course this is a take off from the New Orleans Mardi Gras. | |
| 42 |  |
2:27 PM | |
| 43 |  |
2:28 PM "Devil With A Blue Dress." He can blow fire out the exhausts. | |
| 44 |  |
2:28 PM A souped up "Good Human I Scream" truck. | |
| 45 |  |
2:28 PM Evans Georgopolous's 1931 Ford Model A Super Deluxe Roadster. | |
| 46 |  |
2:28 PM A 1938 Packard. | |
| 47 |  |
2:29 PM It started as a Chevrolet. | |
| 48 |  |
2:31 PM | |
| 49 |  |
2:31 PM Krewe of Ottos, or The Octopus. | |
| 50 |  |
2:31 PM ??'s Sushi. | |
| 51 |  |
2:32 PM | |
| 52 |  |
2:32 PM | |
| 53 |  |
2:32 PM | |
| 54 |  |
2:32 PM | |
| 55 |  |
2:33 PM | |
| 56 |  |
2:34 PM | |
| 57 |  |
2:34 PM | |
| 58 |  |
2:35 PM | |
| 59 |  |
2:35 PM | |
| 60 |  |
2:35 PM | |
| 61 |  |
2:35 PM | |
| 62 |  |
2:36 PM | |
| 63 |  |
2:36 PM | |
| 64 |  |
2:36 PM The East Village Sea Monster Marching Band. | |
| 65 |  |
2:37 PM | |
| 66 |  |
2:38 PM | |
| 67 |  |
2:38 PM Sea Section. | |
| 68 |  |
2:39 PM Sea Section. | |
| 69 |  |
2:39 PM | |
| 70 |  |
2:39 PM Zoltar. | |
| 71 |  |
2:39 PM | |
| 72 |  |
2:39 PM | |
| 73 |  |
2:39 PM Mermaids III. | |
| 74 |  |
2:40 PM | |
| 75 |  |
2:43 PM Out of work super models. | |
| 76 |  |
2:43 PM Out of work super models. | |
| 77 |  |
2:44 PM | |
| 78 |  |
2:44 PM | |
| 79 |  |
2:45 PM | |
| 80 |  |
2:45 PM | |
| 81 |  |
2:46 PM | |
| 82 |  |
2:46 PM | |
| 83 |  |
2:47 PM | |
| 84 |  |
2:48 PM | |
| 85 |  |
2:49 PM The The Brooklyn Brewery is a float regular. | |
| 86 |  |
2:49 PM A cute old motor home. [who made?] | |
| 87 |  |
2:49 PM The couple was ranting about Somalia. | |
| 88 |  |
2:50 PM The Somalia crowd again. | |
| 89 |  |
2:50 PM The Somalia crowd again. | |
| 90 |  |
2:50 PM The Liberty Sunset Garden Center. | |
| 91 |  |
2:53 PM | |
| 92 |  |
2:56 PM | |
| 93 |  |
2:57 PM | |
| 94 |  |
2:57 PM | |
| 95 |  |
2:57 PM The Brooklyn Bombshells. | |
| 96 |  |
2:57 PM The Brooklyn Bombshells? | |
| 97 |  |
2:57 PM | |
| 98 |  |
2:58 PM | |
| 99 |  |
2:58 PM He's a regular. See him last year. | |
| 100 |  |
2:58 PM The Uptown String Band came from Hulmeville, PA. | |
| 101 |  |
2:58 PM King Neptune Mr. Harvey Keitel and his Queen Mermaid Daphna. | |
| 102 |  |
2:58 PM The King and Queen again. | |
| 103 |  |
2:59 PM | |
| 104 |  |
2:59 PM | |
| 105 |  |
2:59 PM | |
| 106 |  |
2:59 PM Reverend Billy | |
| 107 |  |
2:59 PM | |
| 108 |  |
3:00 PM | |
| 109 |  |
3:00 PM | |
| 110 |  |
3:00 PM | |
| 111 |  |
3:02 PM | |
| 112 |  |
3:04 PM That's Rabbi Abraham Abraham of the Coney Island Ice Breakers in the pedicab. | |
| 113 |  |
3:05 PM | |
| 114 |  |
3:05 PM | |
| 115 |  |
3:05 PM | |
| 116 |  |
3:05 PM | |
| 117 |  |
3:05 PM | |
| 118 |  |
3:05 PM | |
| 119 |  |
3:06 PM | |
| 120 |  |
3:06 PM | |
| 121 |  |
3:06 PM Sexcamaids, Sirens Of The Sex World. A regular parade entry. | |
| 122 |  |
3:06 PM | |
| 123 |  |
3:07 PM | |
| 124 |  |
3:07 PM | |
| 125 |  |
3:07 PM | |
| 126 |  |
3:09 PM | |
| 127 |  |
3:09 PM | |
| 128 |  |
3:09 PM | |
| 129 |  |
3:09 PM They are stingrays. | |
| 130 |  |
3:10 PM They are stingrays. | |
| 131 |  |
3:12 PM | |
| 132 |  |
3:12 PM | |
| 133 |  |
3:13 PM | |
| 134 |  |
3:13 PM | |
| 135 |  |
3:13 PM | |
| 136 |  |
3:13 PM | |
| 137 |  |
3:14 PM | |
| 138 |  |
3:14 PM MC Hammerhead Sharks. | |
| 139 |  |
3:16 PM T.M.L.M. - T.B.G.B. | |
| 140 |  |
3:17 PM | |
| 141 |  |
3:19 PM The Rocky Horror Fisher Show. | |
| 142 |  |
3:19 PM | |
| 143 |  |
3:19 PM | |
| 144 |  |
3:20 PM The Brooklyn Cyclones. | |
| 145 |  |
3:20 PM The Brooklyn Cyclones. | |
| 146 |  |
3:20 PM The Brooklyn Cyclones. | |
| 147 |  |
3:20 PM The Brooklyn Cyclones. | |
| 148 |  |
3:21 PM | |
| 149 |  |
3:21 PM | |
| 150 |  |
3:21 PM | |
| 151 |  |
3:22 PM | |
| 152 |  |
3:23 PM | |
| 153 |  |
3:23 PM | |
| 154 |  |
3:23 PM | |
| 155 |  |
3:23 PM | |
| 156 |  |
3:23 PM | |
| 157 |  |
3:23 PM | |
| 158 |  |
3:24 PM | |
| 159 |  |
3:25 PM | |
| 160 |  |
3:25 PM | |
| 161 |  |
3:25 PM | |
| 162 |  |
3:25 PM | |
| 163 |  |
3:26 PM Coney Island Dancers. This ended the parade. | |
| 164 |  |
3:36 PM I walked over to the boardwalk where the parade's finish line now is. | |
| 165 |  |
3:38 PM The finish line. | |
| 166 |  |
3:40 PM The Uptown String Band leads the King and Queen. | |
| 167 |  |
3:42 PM King Neptune and Queen Mermaid. | |
| 168 |  |
3:43 PM | |
| 169 |  |
3:43 PM | |
| 170 |  |
3:45 PM | |
| 171 |  |
3:45 PM | |
| 172 |  |
3:46 PM Him again. | |
| 173 |  |
3:47 PM | |
| 174 |  |
3:48 PM | |
| 175 |  |
3:50 PM | |
| 176 |  |
3:51 PM | |
| 177 |  |
3:52 PM Sexcamaids, Sirens Of The Sex World. | |
| 178 |  |
3:52 PM Sexcamaids, Sirens Of The Sex World. | |
| 179 |  |
3:52 PM Sexcamaids, Sirens Of The Sex World. | |
| 180 |  |
3:53 PM Sexcamaids, Sirens Of The Sex World. | |
| 181 |  |
3:55 PM | |
| 182 |  |
4:00 PM | |
| 183 |  |
4:01 PM | |
| 184 |  |
4:01 PM | |
| 185 |  |
4:03 PM Looking down at the sea there is a crowd gathering. | |
| 186 |  |
4:05 PM The Rude Mechanical Orchestra. | |
| 187 |  |
4:05 PM | |
| 188 |  |
4:10 PM Looking back at the boardwalk. | |
| 189 |  |
4:18 PM [E-mail me for the other two pictures.] | |
| 190 |  |
4:19 PM | |
| 191 |  |
4:20 PM | |
| 192 |  |
4:21 PM | |
| 193 |  |
4:21 PM | |
| 194 |  |
4:30 PM Zoltar again. | |
| 195 |  |
4:30 PM The awards are just finishing up. Dick Zigum is holding up the key. After this they usually cut ribbons for each season and make an offering to the sea. I did not stick around for it this year. (I was getting cold.) | |
| 196 |  |
4:33 PM The world famous Cyclone roller coaster. |
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