A Look Back at Old Coney Island Restaurants

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• Stauch's, Coney Island, From the Coney Island Bulletin [link]
• Coney Island, From the L Magazine [link]
• Stauch's, Coney Island, 1911, From the Brooklyn Public Library [link]
• Stauch's, Coney Island, Photo by H. Finkelstein & Son, 1920, From the collections of the Museum of the City of New York [link]
• Child's Restaurant, Coney Island, Photo by Irving Underhill, 1930's, From Flickr [link]
• Dinner Tendered to Good Fellowship Club, Coney Island, Byron Company, 1916, From the Museum of the City of New York [link]
• Nathan's, 1920's, From Untapped New York [link]
• Nathan's Hot Dog Stand, Coney Island, Photo by Andrew Herman, 1939, From the Museum of the City of New York [link]
• Nathan's Hot Dog Stand, Coney Island, Photo by Andrew Herman, 1939, From the Museum of the City of New York [link]
• Frozen Custard Stand, Coney Island, Photo by Andrew Herman, 1939, From the Museum of the City of New York [link]
• Nedick's, Coney Island, Photo by Andrew Herman, 1939, From the Museum of the City of New York [link]

Here's a collection of photos of Coney Island restaurants that thrived in the first half of the 20th Century. Nathan's Famous, which was opened by Nathan Handwerker, a Polish immigrant, in 1916, has become a nationally recognized chain and boardwalk staple. Other notable restaurants sadly didn't share the same fate. Childs, the massive chain restaurant from the turn of the century, went through a series of unsuccessful changes before being sold in 1947.
-Alexis deBoschnek
· All Coverage of the Restaurants of Old New York [~ENY~]