Fun Find: Free PDF of Coney Island Book

This one came to us via an e-mail from the author, inviting us to download a PDF of his book, Coney Island. The book is a number of years old, but we're suckers for anything Coney, so clicked and looked and found a book that has some very interesting stories and reflections and photos. So, if you're interested in Coney, it's absolutely worth a look. (Apologies if we're bringing you old news, but we hadn't run across this before.)

The writer is someone named Professor Solomon whose gotten some notice as a "finder of lost objects" and has published a number of books via Penguin and others. (His first name, by the way, is Steve, although we only figured this out by reading the caption on the photo above of him on the boardwalk. Other than that, Professor is his self-given title and identity. It's entirely fitting for a 152-page book on Coney Island.)

There are also a number of interesting old photos in the book, as you can see by a couple we've taken and posted here, and we've never seen a number of them before. (Note the still-operating parachute jump in the photo of the author at the top.)

You can find the book by clicking over to his website and then, clicking for the download. (We're not going to include the direct link, because clicking it opens a 45 meg PDF download, and possible tragedy if you're operating on a creaky old system or with a dial-up.)

So, if you dig Coney Island and you haven't come across the this book in perusing the other volumes of Coney Island history and image's, this one, which has an original publication date of 1999 is definitely worth a download.

Thanks for the e-mail, Professor.