Mike "Thunderbolt" Norton opens a hotel at Norton's Point, on the eastern end of Coney Island, which caters to a corrupt clientele. The Elephant Hotel opens at Coney Island. It becomes associated ...

How Coney Island got its name remains a mystery ... The focal point for the rough crowd was the hotel run by Michael "Thunderbolt" Norton, a ward heeler who catered to the movers and shakers ...

The towering Ferris wheel is the center of the park, and has been in Coney Island for longer than Deno ... including the iconic Thunderbolt. Today, Deno’s Wonder Wheel Park — still owned ...

In Weegee's photograph Coney Island at noon Saturday, July 5, 1942—shot for the visually punchy, commercial-free, left-wing tabloid PM—the overgrown structure looms on the horizon in its glory ...