Priscilla Normandy Greenwood's Family Album: Coney Island

Priscilla Normandy Greenwood's Family Album

Coney Island



The Bobsled was first featured at the 1939 World's Fair which I went to when I was four years old. Then they moved it to the Bowery and Stillwell Avenue in Coney Island. Mom and I used to ride it together. You really flew through the wooden chute in these toboggans.	The Cyclone, my very favorite ride, was on Surf Avenue and West 10th Street. It was the most famous roller coaster in the world at one time. That's where my love of roller coasters was born. I still like them, except for The Beast at Kings Island in Cincinnati, Ohio. That wooden roller coast is aptly named!


On the Boardwalk near the Pier was one of my favorite rides - the Parachute Jump in Steeplechase. It was actually at the 1939 World's Fair first and was moved, but I was too little to ride it at the Fair. I made up for it later.	I just found this in my scrapbook. Johnny Petrucci took me to Steeplechase (The Funny Place) in June, 1948. I was 12 going on 16. I remember when you got off the mechanical horses you walked by a place with a hole in the floor and a fan below blew your skirt up over your head. A crowd always gathered to laugh at the unsuspecting girls. I was warned and wore shorts!

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Now Playing: "Baby Face"

Rosy cheeks and turn'd up nose and curly hair,
I'm raving 'bout my baby now,
Pretty little dimples here and dimples there;
Don't want to live without her,
I love her goodness knows,
I wrote a song about her
And here's the way it goes:

Baby face
You've got the cutest little
Baby face
There's not another one could
Take your place
Baby face
My poor heart is jumpin'
You sure have started somethin'

Baby face
I'm up in heaven
When I'm in your fond embrace
I didn't need a shove
'Cause I just fell in love
With your pretty baby face

When you were a baby not so long ago
You must have been the cutest thing
I can picture you at ev'ry baby show
Just winnin'every ribbon with your sweet baby way
Say, honest I ain't fibbin', you'd win 'em all today

Baby face
You've got the cutest little
Baby face
There's not another one could
Take your place
Baby face
My poor heart is jumpin'
You sure have started somethin'
Baby face
I'm up in heaven
When I'm in your fond embrace
I didn't need a shove
'Cause I just fell in love
With your pretty baby face

Music by Harry Akst
Lyrics by Benny Davies

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