• Gloria@sh.itjust.works
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    4 months ago

    There was also one in Paris as part of the Moulin Rouge Garden Party that was apparently designed with inspiration from the Coney Island one.

    Whilst digging, I also learned that the giant structure had been inspired by James V Lafferty’s “Elephantine Colossus”, a seven-story tourist attraction and hotel built on Coney Island in 1885, pictured below.

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      4 months ago

      That explains the one that was in the movie. I was curious about that.