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Cincinnati's Coney Island celebrates 125th birthday

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On the way, she survived the devastating floods, the Great Depression, fear of polio, a long and desegregation battle competition from theme parks scale to become a summer tradition for generations of greater Cincinnatian.

Coney Island, the amusement park of 75 acres on the banks of the Ohio River, is marking its 125th anniversary this year - and its status as an amusement park the sixth oldest in the country.

The biggest celebration of the season took place Saturday, with discounted rates after 16 hours, specials $ 1.25 concession, free birthday cake, live music, memorabilia and a display of fireworks on Lake Como.

"There is a love story in the long term with Cincinnati and Coney Island," said Tom Rhein, vice president of park operations and food historian resident. "People really want it to be successful. C 'is the kind of pure feeling. "

Originally called "Ohio Grove, Coney Island of the West" - a nod to Coney Island in the East, New York - the park was founded June 21, 1886 by a steamboat captain named William F. McIntyre and its partners. They paid $ 17 500 for what was then a picnic grove and Riverside Resort with a dance hall and a few outings and games, where visitors arrived by steamboat.

The turning point for the park was in 1925, Rhein said. George F. Schott and Hynicka Rudolph, who had bought the park last year, has built a new steamer Island Queen to bring visitors to the park after the original was destroyed by fire, Moonlite Gardens, where some of biggest names in big band music and roll at the beginning of rock 'n' done, half-way, and the pool Sunlite enormous. Containing 3 million gallons of water, it remains the world's largest recirculating pool.

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