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The Brooklyn Daily Eagle from Brooklyn, New York • Page 3

The Brooklyn Daily Eagle from Brooklyn, New York • Page 3

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0 BROOKLYN EAGLE, FRIDAY, MAY 31, 1940 i vK-y-r. i ru Ty cT 3 Streamlining Can't Hide Fact It's Still Coney Island The Winnahs! walk -out tuccciltl from Runekt Fourth Floor Debtitantt Shop which various smalt attractions I one lined the areade, Face Lifted Here and There but Din And Odors Wil! Prevail as Usual I Silent Films Lure However, a new feature, now In ti i p.rV n.in! thlrd SaSOn- the Old-time mol hmup fflrinp th nrrnrie on By KATHERINE BLANCK All the civic efforts in the world to give Coney Island a new Jones the graa near the boardwalk, where open.alr tneater one mtv the toy railroad runs through, wa I see old silent films for 10 cents Beach streamlined silhouette can't I snjnjng green admission and 5 cents for children. There Is another such movie house on StiUwell between Surf Ave. and the Boardwalk. mange uury ibinuu.

There's been a little face-lifting here and there and a few old land- Boardwalk Now Straight I From W. 8th St. to Steeplechase marks are gone, but it's still the Pier the beach shone with the new coma AlH At hort Th A wax-works musee on Stillell by the way, is now featuring the "Brooklyn Murder Syndicate" as one of its displays. scenic railways still swoop and dip sand put there when the work of moving the boardwalk back some distance from the shore line was completed. The alteration, part of One-Third of Cleveland Park commissioner Moses' stream- $0 wpA jn 2 mlng plan, has straitened out May (pjMore the boardwalk so that it runs in a ft third of clevelamU approximate straight line a 1 the way from 000 rMM ht wpA aid Gate to Brighton.

This ha5 given 1938.39 a the more beach space. -if 1 4 4 i r4 B5'- I as their passengers scream with delight, the barkers still shout their hoarse pleas at the passersby, the carousels still shrill out their endless tunes and the same odors of popcorn, roasting ear corn, cotton candy, waffles and ice cream and hamburgers still struggle for mastery with the salt tang of the sea. Memorial Day, as lways, officially and unofficially launched the season for the "playground of the world," and despite the nipping wind from the ocean, the faithful flocked to the island, to stroll in the sun along the boardwalk, to oM I The applicants represented Commissioner Moses' plan, from I 560 of the city's estimated 240,000 8th to W. 10th on the site the old Dreamland parking space, is families. The total number of persons represented applicants and still under construction and Park Kiyon Mtin I aster (wiri-rait, beiuttfullr cut.

Red and white or blue, and white stripes. Sizes 32 to 38. Department men and other workers their dependents-was 348.644 of were busy putting it in shape yes- i unelanos esumaieu w.uw dpnts. WPA said- Of the 121,560 This face-liftine alone the board- aPPU'ing, b.au were ceruiiea lor parade along Surf Ave. and to patronize the rides, shooting galleries and eating places.

work. The survey did not consider several thousand mtfre Cleveland families which were dependent solely upon city-supplied direct relief. walk has changed the old familiar face of the island at this point, however. A big chunk of the building housing the Municipal Baths Is gone. A new street has been cut through to the Boardwalk at what would be W.

9th St. And Feltman's, one of Coney's oldest and most famous institutions, has changed greatly. Felt-man's, before the boardwalk was built, used to have a "basket party" restaurant facing the sea at this Few Brave the Water A few hardy souls stripped down to trunks and bare torso on the beach, but almost none went near the water. One stout lady went in up to her hips and came right out again. But the 400.000 who took advantage of the bright day to inaugurate the season at Coney-family groups, sedate couples, ro will! II Engla Stuff photo CONEY ISLAND OFFICIALLY OPEN Since time immemoriol, Memorial Day has been the day to inaugurate Coney Island's season and yesterday's bright sunshine brought out thousands.

At the left, Miss Esrelle Prescott looks very brave, ready to dash in Ravenhall's pool, but maybe she just played ball, and at the right is the old-time favorite rock ride at Steeplechase Park, where they're having plenty of fun. When the boardwalk was mantic young couples and lots of i point. Youth Gets Prison Term Kllilt tVttp WD. MMMrul na.l. boys and girls in their 'teens- vu.w tiao i i iiiw'vvj aim a Lien restaurant, the Ftsheree Grill, put strolled along the boardwalk or rode Crescent Club Shuts Doors Of Imposing Town House Today bation for three years and two laborers found tending the still were jailed for two months each.

The laborers were Peter Morreale, 28. 73 Stagg and Joseph Banico, 24, 190 Jefferson St. "1 In chairs. in its place. This, too, is gone now, Virtually all the rides, shows, mu- as part of the property had to be Cornell Co-ed Drowns For Running Still on L.

I. Peter Bonventre, 20, was sentenced today to a year and a day imprisonment by Judge Inch in Brooklyn Federal Court on a guilty plea to a charge of operating a 350-gallon unregistered alcohol still that Federal agents seized Feb. 6 last on his mother's farm, Seamen's Neck Road near Sunrise Highway, Sea-ford. Peter's mother, Mrs. Rose Bon condemned to move the boardwalk back.

Feltman's famous arcade is now entered by a flight of descending steps. Several of the dining places and outdoor gardens which used to provide a pleasant evening of a Summer night are gone, and most of the dining space is now concentrat- seums and other amusements were open and were apparently doing a fair business. Admission prices seemed to be low enough to meet the most modest pocketbook and the most terrific desire for a ride on one of the thrillers. Luna Park, under new management this year, was bright and brave in new paint and seemed to Our pleated bosom dress with Peters on Brooklyn Heights. Temporary headquarters are at 162 Remsen St.

At the club today it was said that members are moving out various personal effects. The club's furniture and furnishings, however, will be moved out at a later date when a place of storage Is decided upon. There probably will be an auction of some effects, It was said. Auburn, N. May 31 (U.B Miss Lorraine Levine, 18, of 1938 E.

18th Brooklyn, a Cornell University student, was drowned last night when a pleasure boat in which she was a passenger struck a pier and sank In Owasco Lake near here. The handsome Crescent Athletic Clubhouse at 129 Pierrepont for 84 years the town house of the membership, closes Its doors today the organization vacates It for mailer and more modest quarters. The membership voted at a spe-elal meeting early in the week to continue the club's existence but In more modest quarters. The new home of the club has not yet been announced but It will be somewhere the embroidered insignia. Rayon crepe to white, Blue, natural, pink and yellow.

QUALITY JEWELERS SINCE 4Rit Fulton Next ts Lnfwr Sizes 10 to 20. A7.t ed at the Surf Ave. end of the prop-! erty. Many of the lovely old trees Olil Em. TRIiiiiIi 252f ventre, who pleaded guilty to con have undergone a general rejuvena spiracy in the case was put on pro- Four young men were rescued.

tion and reawakening. Steeplechase have gone, too, as well as the MARTIN'S FUR STORAGE TRiangle 5-3100 State Launches Drive Against Tax Evaders Albany, May 31 (U.R The State Tax Department has begun an Intensive drive against tax evasion and delinquency. The program was authorized by Governor Lehman and the Legislature in the hope of collecting an estimated 13,500,000. Tax Commissioner Mark Graves, announcing completion of preliminary plans, said 100 new agents have been employed in Albany and New York. 4 ti' HI Our famous slacks -shift set now in nubsacking (nubby spun rayon).

Blue, pink, natural, aqua, cherry, green, yellow. Sizes 12 to 20. .00 i iff if li fl 1 v5 FREDERICK LOESER CO. Jne. Lti.

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Also in white and moon blue. Sizes (2 to 20. I10.fl 16.95 imm -a 7f wi i. i 1 beautiful new spun radons for women who ear lz sizes The old-fashioned eyelet returns to delight the Modern Woman! Fresh and young as ever but newly dramatic in Rojte Leaf rayon And styled with suchJmpeccable simplicity that it looks at ease in any company! White, blue, pink. Sizes 38 to 44, thi modern womansecond floor ill fit1 Wallpaper' print on birdseye pique; rayon ribbon bows on the shoulders.

Pink and white or hyacinth and white sizes 9 lo 17 HO.tl rOl'RTH FLOOR Mall and then ra'an 0114 9393 A new model recently introduced, at the lowest price in the history of the official piano of the Metropolitan Opera. Convenient Payments Arranged Piano Salon Fourth Floor Jtry. by Win, Almnt unhelievalile that drfsspj Po well tailored anil so smartly styled rould he had at this price! Cool, all-round flatterers you'll ru jov all Summer long. MuM-resiMant drrssrs you'll wrar to the Fair, for lunch, shopping, motoring. Third floor.

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