With the sad death of a fabled strongman who performed at Coney Island, an aspect of amusement side shows comes to light again. Joe Rollino, 104, a certified member of Coney Island’s side show history where Charles Atlas once ruled, died recently when he couldn’t stop a Ford minivan as he stepped off a Bay [...]
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Mankind’s yen for low-brow entertainment often is considered modern-era folly – a love of violent films, trashy celebrities and pants-on-the-ground reality television. The past was wholesome and thoughtful. Then along comes another reminder of that misperception: A Colo man wrecked trains for entertainment, and 50,000 people witnessed his first crash on [...] |
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