During the 1911 fire that burned Coney Island's Dreamland amusement park to the ground, one of the animal attractions, a black lion, with his hind quarters ablaze, scrambled up the staircase to the top of the roller coaster, which made him "a perfect flaming target against the clear night sky" for the mob shooting at […]
SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:44AM on July 17, 2018