Anyway. This past holiday weekend seemed like a good time to visit Coney Island...to see things for myself...
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Given everything that I had read to date, I expected a grim scene...
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That's what I got. Suitably depressing. And almost unbelievable, really.
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[Sigh] Ruby's, I was hoping maybe those reports were...not true.
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I don't have much to add to what has already been noted other places...One thing: I was one of about, oh, 50 people walking around taking pictures. At one point, there were nearly 12 people in front of the now-derelict Shoot the Freak taking photos. I felt as if I was at a press conference.
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Left 4 Dead? I'll say.
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Hmmmm.
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See some 50 more photos on my Flickr page.
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