26th Annual revival of the Bunion Derby, the heel and toe race organized in New York City. The participants race from City Hall to Coney Island. A huge crowd gathers to watch the race. The participants run during the race along roads and bridges. Murray Rosenstein wins the race.
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 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.)
Documentary depicts the end of the 1920s good times in the U.S. ("Roaring 20s"), leading into the Great Depression. Mildred Unger, age 10, performs a wing walker charleston dance while out on the wing of a JN-4 "Jenny" airplane in flight over Los Angeles in 1926.Four girls dancing on the top of a building higher than those around it, in Boston, Massachusetts. Amusement park patrons riding a roller coaster. People out driving through a park in their automobiles. Patrons enjoying themselves at the Steeplechase amusement park in Coney Island, New York. A crane piling old cars in a heap at a junk yard. But following the Wall Street crash (stock market crash) of 1929, conditions change in America. Group of men, women, and children standing together, looking sad and dejected, poor and desperate, due to conditions of the Great Depression affecting families. Still photo of group of people receiving food assistance in a city. A man, woman, and baby, in a tent (probably migrant workers). The famous 1936 photo, "Migrant Mother" by Dorothea Lange, of migrant worker, Florence Owens Thompson, with two of her children in California. Men receiving food from a city soup kitchen. Dejected unemployed men.
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