Devin and Andy head to the Brooklyn Beach Shop on the Coney Island Boardwalk. How does current Coney Island express its heritage as the People’s Playground? How bad is stealing from beach stores? Does a boardwalk shop need a certain amount of kitsch? Might the parachute drop in fact be an interdimensional portal?
Links:
Weegee’s Coney Island (classic photo)
PBS Coney Island Documentary (1991)
Official page for PBS Coney Island documentary
Short video tour of the Brooklyn Beach Shop
“Coney” by Giuseppe Cautela (1925)
Music by Jed Becker, art by Margaret Flatley, production assistance by Skye MacLeod. Contact FullCartsPod@gmail.com
