Luna Park, Coney Island
1909
Eugene Wemlinger
The Helter Skelter was a hugely popular, adults-only giant slide. From a fifty-foot tower, people would tumble down the slide on little mats, skirts flying, to the amusement of the masses gathered on the ground. Note the base of Luna Park’s two-hundred-foot tower by the lagoon in the background. Covered in thousands of electric lights, it constantly changed colors and was a fixture of nighttime Coney Island.
- Maker/Artist
- Eugene Wemlinger
- Classification
- Matrix
- Formatted Medium
- Cellulose nitrate negative
- Dimensions
- 3 1/2 x 5 1/2 in. (8.9 x 14 cm)
- Accession Number
- 1996.164.10-21
- Credit Line
- Brooklyn Museum/Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Collection
- Rights Statement
- No known copyright restrictions
- Museum Location
- This item is not on view
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