Figure skating in Coney Island, New York. Trudy Bronson and Paul Carriere performs while adapting various dance movement to skating. 1931.
A cycling contest held at Coney Island in New York. Cyclists cheered by crowds ride bicycles on a track. Policemen try to control excited spectators. Italian rider Franco Georgetti wins the contest and holds the winner's trophy.
Steeplechase Park's 25th annual Modern Venus Contest (bathing beauty parade) at Coney Island, New York. One Hundred and twenty five girls compete in Steeplechase Park's 25th annual Modern Venus Contest Girls in bikini parade by a pool. Male judge uses a measuring tape to measure the bust size and waist size of a female contestant. Nineteen year old brunette Elissa Winston wins the competition. Elissa Winston poses with the trophy.
A 10-mile race walking event held in New York, United States. Men walk from the City Hall to Coney Island. Men walk along the streets and cross over the Brooklyn Bridge. Sid Grossman wins the race.
A horse race at Sheepshead Bay Race Track, Coney Island, New York. Nine horses are seen running on the track. After the race, jockeys ride to an area where they dismount and weigh out. (The race was won by a horse named "Famous Clifford" ridden by a jockey named Sloane.)
A Nazi gathering of men, women, and children members of the German-American Bund at Camp Siegfried in Yaphank, Long Island, New York, United States. The gathering is to celebrate "Deutscher Tag von Long Island 1937," aka Long Island German Day. Boys and girls and young men and women dressed in uniforms of the German-American Bund display Nazi salutes as they march on the grounds of Camp Siegfried in front of a memorial commemorating Long Island German Day. Nazi and American flag banners displayed on either side of the memorial.
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