{"id":2136,"date":"2010-08-06T10:33:01","date_gmt":"2010-08-06T09:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=2136"},"modified":"2010-08-06T10:33:01","modified_gmt":"2010-08-06T09:33:01","slug":"coney-island-archive-photos-1986-and-1999","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/coney-island-archive-photos-1986-and-1999\/","title":{"rendered":"Coney Island archive photos: 1986 and 1999"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/..\/photos\/newyork\/images\/coney-island-2002-09.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Coney Island archive photos - 1986 and 1999, old photographs from two trips to a faded Brookyln seaside town, New York, USA\" width=\"580\" height=\"435\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dug up from my photo archives is this series of photos of the faded seaside town of Coney Island, Brooklyn, which I visited in 1986 and 1999.<\/p>\n<p>I was terrified when I first went there &#8211; until I realised its rusting grandeur reminded me of Barry Island, back in Wales!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/..\/photos\/newyork\/images\/coney-island-2002-01.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Coney Island archive photos - 1986 and 1999, old photographs from two trips to a faded Brookyln seaside town, New York, USA\" width=\"580\" height=\"416\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/..\/photos\/newyork\/images\/coney-island-2002-03.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Coney Island archive photos - 1986 and 1999, old photographs from two trips to a faded Brookyln seaside town, New York, USA\" width=\"580\" height=\"435\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The old Thunderbolt ride &#8211; which had a house built in to it!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/..\/photos\/newyork\/images\/coney-island-1986-07.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Coney Island archive photos - 1986 and 1999, old photographs from two trips to a faded Brookyln seaside town, New York, USA\" width=\"580\" height=\"391\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yes- that&#8217;s me posing there!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/photos\/newyork\/coney-island-brooklyn-nyc.html\">Loads more Coney Island photos here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dug up from my photo archives is this series of photos of the faded seaside town of Coney Island, Brooklyn, which I visited in 1986 and 1999. I was terrified &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6725,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[56,17,193],"tags":[323,23,192],"class_list":["post-2136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-york","category-photos","category-places","tag-coney-island","tag-funfair","tag-usa"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/coney-island-2002-09.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-ys","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2136"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2138,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2136\/revisions\/2138"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}