Tuesday, September 6, 2011

World in Wax

It's a lazy, end-of-summer, holiday week, and that means...reruns! I'll be revisiting some of my personal favorite posts here this week.

Today, go back to Coney Island's World in Wax Musee. Costa Mantis' full-color photos of this ghoulish treasure of lost Coney Island cannot be missed. You'll see Hickman the Fox dismembering little Marion Parker in a bathtub! Husband-killing seductress Ruth Snyder of Double Indemnity infamy! And Lina Madina, the baby who gave birth to a baby.

They're here, they're real, they're not alive!


photograph: Costa Mantis, 1981
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4 comments:

  1. AnonymousSeptember 6, 2011 at 8:53 AM

    You have neglected Felicia Rincon, Mayoress of San Juan, Puerto Rico;
    the running mural above the tableaux—
    of Dante's Inferno—Nat King Cole's backward hand; "Who Killed Cock Robin,"
    and approximately 20 thousand other incredible details at one of the greatest NY places of all time.

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  2. Laura Goggin PhotographySeptember 6, 2011 at 1:23 PM

    It's stuff like this that made me love CI.

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  3. AnonymousSeptember 6, 2011 at 1:36 PM

    jeremiah can we give it a break? i understand the shrine to coney island. but seriously how many x's a year to you & your readers go there? ok im sure things will liven up later!

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  4. Marty WombacherSeptember 7, 2011 at 8:21 AM

    I'll take all the posts you can publish about Coney Island. I didn't see this the first time and appreciate you reposting it.

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