Page 12 (right): Entrance to Luna Park, Looking Out to Surf Avenue

Page 12 (right) of the Glimpses of the New Coney Island book: Entrance to Luna Park, Looking Out to Surf Avenue

Photograph from the inside part of the entrance to Luna Park with a view of crowds on Surf Avenue

One of Coney Island's three main amusement parks, Dreamland, established in 1904, was considered more "refined, orderly and symmetrical" than Luna Park and Steeplchase Park. Bankruptcy forced the owners to auction off the park in 1910 before a fire completely destroyed the park in 1911.