Photo by Lane Johnson/amNY
The long Independence Day weekend is upon us, the perfect time to sample the delights of Coney Island, Nathan's Famous, Totonno's and, of course, Astroland. With the prospect of the amusement park's extinction ever looming, this weekend is as good a time as any to go.
Since this is our weekly Throwback Thursday feature, we'd be derelict if we didn't point park-goers to this memorable, rhyming, disco-beat-driven commercial for Astroland. It must date to the early 1980s, and is full of great shots of Astroland taken well before Thor Equities, the company that wishes to remake the area, even existed.
-- Rolando Pujol