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Still another week-end (July
15-16 of rain. Friday night (14) brought a large attendance
to the open-air stand on Stillwell for the second round of
Night of Stars. Lester Wolff emseed and Morton Arkin's ork
provided the music for street dancing. Bess Myerson, a recent
Miss America titleholder; Nina Louise Spanish, Charlotte
Manson, the Pepsi-Cola Girl and Dick Brown, singer, were
guests. Miss Myerson was named Miss Coney Island.
Concessionaires on John Ward's property, covering both sides
of Jones Walk from Surf to the Boardwalk, include souvenirs,
Wilfred and Eva Long, with Rose Fortunato, and Grace Terra,
helpers; horoscope picking birds, Manpei Yoshida; Pizza pies,
Grace Diamond with Frank Rondazzo, assisting, 19 units of
miniature Star Game tables, Jerome, Randolph and Richard
Keller; balloon bust, John Bianco, William Simon, helper; 11
Frigidaire stands, William Murphy; tin-type photo gallery, Sam
Sims, who also has another branch on the Boardwalk where his
sister-in-law, Anna and son, Arnold are in charge; fishpond,
Jimmie Santo, with Stewart Lyles, head salesman; bottle game,
Fred Canfield, with Joey Battaglia and Abie Sheffield, ballmen;
pony track, Jim McLaughlin, with James Carter, managerm
Anthony De Marco, former boss
mechanic at Coney, heads the Marco Amusement Company,
operating an arcade on Surf. His son, Mickey and his wife,
Millie assist him, with the latter in the cash booth . . . New
tenants of Roc co R. Catalan, arcade owner at West 16th and
Bowery are Stanley Faber, tattooer, and Al Levy and Fred
Fender, guess-your-age . . . Prof. Walter DeLenz, magician and
emsee at Garto's Variety Show, remain there until the fairs
start . . . Jean Idelle, fan dancer from the Columbia,
Detroit, Detroit, and Georgia May, voodoo dancer, are recent
additions at Tirza;s Wine Bath Show, also new is George Mysels,
who is handling publicity . . . Boomerrang in Bowery Park
enjoys a new lease on life since operator Jimmie Kyrimes
installed many improvements to locks, guard rails and brakes,
all of his own invention, to allow for easier, safer travel.
John Ward, recovered from recent illness, is operating his
rides and concessions . . . . Sam Torres has returned as
outside talker over weekends at Garto's how . . . . Stanley
Reiben, Chamber of Commerce prexy, joins the law office of
Assemblyman Eugene F. Bannigan in New York at the close of the
season. . . . Outmoded trolley poles on Surf have been
transformed into a carnival aspect. . . . William Silverstein
and Marion Ampola are Morris Joffe's experts in charge of the
modernized popcorn and candy emporium covering most of
Feltman's Surf front. . . . Tintyper Sam Sim's daughter,
Bobbie, has left the Jones Walk concession to continue her
studies at city College of New York. Replacing her is Freddie
Waldron.
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William Bradley Smith, or Aloa,
Alligator Boy, of Raleigh, N. C., is the new attraction for
the blow-off at Sindell's Girlie Revue. Julia Gerity is the
all-season's singing feature at Sindell's Stable. . . . Carl
Balmer, oldptime circus talker and concessionaire, is out
front orator at Rosen's freakery. . . . Bill Lombard,
long-time promotion manager at Luna Park for the Collier's and
the Miller's is in charge of the pool at Steeplechase Park. .
. . Overnight change at Harry Rifkin's, on Surf, sent
Shuffleboard Alleys back to the shelf after a week's tenancy
and brought back the original set of Pokerinos. Rifkin said
that "customers preferred sitting to standing up." . . . Mrs.
Henry Stubbman, who, since the death of her husband two years
ago, had been operating the Eleanor Hotel a Carousel bar,
grille and parking lot on Surf and West Sixth, has retired.
Present lessee of the hotel is Charles Roth. Conrad Boyle has
the other three concessions. . . Walter Kane, pianist at
Lane's Irish House, formerly was with Perry's Pavilion at the
Park Circle, Brooklyn.
The Billboard July 29, 1950
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