If you’re in Coney Island you’ve got to stop by the Coney Island History Project (well, it’s a cool place to stop in any case) and see the exhibition that starts on August 2. It’s called “THE ASTROLAND ARCHIVES
PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBIT: Back to the Future. It opens on Saturday (8/2) and runs through September 1. If the photos included with the email are any indication, there will be some cool stuff to look at. Per the email we got from Tricia Vita:

The Coney Island History Project presents an exhibit of images and ephemera from the earliest days of Astroland, Coney’s space-age amusement park. During the early 1960s the Albert family transformed a square block occupied by Feltman’s Restaurant, birthplace of the hot dog, into a futuristic amusement park that exists to this day. The exhibit honors the Albert Family’s four-decade commitment to Coney Island and includes the original plans of the park and photographs of the construction of the Astrotower, Mercury Capsule Skyride, Diving Bells, AstroRocket, Water Flume, Cyclone, Space Orbit and the Astroland Restaurant, formerly Feltman’s.

The history project is located on Surf Avenue, under the Cyclone. It is open from 1PM-6PM, Friday-Sunday.