[Photos courtesy me-myself-i/flickr]
Some people have started a small memorial “shrine” for Astroland on what was the main boardwalk entrance gate. We got this email from Tricia Vita of the Coney Island History Project:
Today a friend and I made a shrine on Astroland’s Boardwalk gates. In the photos you can see our collage and a bouquet of flowers. There’s also a banner, off to the right, that people can sign. Feel free to contribute photos, drawings, letters, poems, flowers and mementos…All items should be weather proofed with plastic sheet protectors! If you cannot go to Coney, please post your virtual contributions on the thread on the Coney Island USA Message Baord. Many of us will be going to Coney on New Year’s Day. We will try to print out as many as possible and add them to the shrine at Astroland’s gates.
Yeah, it’s been a great winter so far in Coney Island. We’re afraid to see what summer is going to bring if the city and developer Joe Sitt don’t their acts together quickly.
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1 tricia // Dec 28, 2008 at 9:30 pm
I’m sorry to report the collage was missing and presumed STOLEN from the fence on sunday morning. everything else surrounding it–the flowers etc– was intact. The collage was secured with 10 heavy duty cable ties, so this was not vandalism, but thievery. “Capt Nemo” posted a pic of the cut cable ties on the ground! I hope it turns up on eBay so I can have the THIEF suspended!
It’s sad to think someone stole something from a street shrine. But all is not lost. I’m going to print out my photo of the shrine, and the photos other people have sent me, and when I go to Coney on Jan 1, I will attach them all to the fence. If you can make it to Coney for the Polar Bear Swim on New Year’s day, please visit the shrine and contribute. If not, please post your virtual tributes on the message board:
http://www.coneyisland.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?num=1230349612/0