From Dawn's list on historic Coney Island.
Known as “the people’s playground,” Coney Island was also affectionately dubbed “sodom by the sea.” This thick volume, published in 1941, offers a history going all the way back to 1830, affording a sweeping view of Coney Island’s risque, criminal, glamorous, delightful, glittering, and sometimes seedy past. It includes a splendid few pages about my subject, Dr. Couney, which were no doubt approved by the self-inventing showman himself—co-author Ranson was among his favorite newspaper reporters.
Sodom By the Sea an Affectionate History of Coney Island
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Sodom by the sea;: An affectionate history of Coney Island [Jan 01, 1943] Pilat, Oliver