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# "A Synthetic Coney Island" - Judge Magazine Page This page satirizes synthetic or artificial recreation of natural attractions on Coney Island (Brooklyn's famous amusement area). The top cartoon mocks creating fake experiences—a "blind man's cup" at the Skee Ball, entering a movie palace during a show, climbing theater fire escapes, and filling bathtubs with salt water to simulate "the Beach." The lower section shows a riverboat cartoon titled "Is this your first trip across?" with accompanying humorous anecdotes about motorboat mishaps and rescue efforts. The satire targets how commercialized entertainment districts substitute artificial imitations for genuine experiences, while the boat section humorously depicts common tourist and working-class recreation mishaps on the waterways near Coney Island.
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JUDGE A Synthetic Coney Island Yor the Dodge "Em—Cross Fifth \ Avenue between intersections, For Skee Ball—Pitch pennies into a blind man’s cup. For the Old Mill—Enter a movie palace during the show. For the Fun House—Climb to the top of the theatre and exit via the fire escape. For the Dance Hall rocker and rock on your toes. For the Beach—Fill the bathtub and sprinkle bath salts on the floor. For the Whip—Go home in a taxi. ” “T hope th? coast guard doesn’t mistake us for rum runners! —Crarence Suernas Helping Hands When the motorboat won't start “T rect all the time that we ought to have gone in the car. This con- founded thing never yet worked when we really necded it.” © off the heads you-call'ems and nd sort of turn her “Can't you—er— of those” wha » dump in some gas over or somethin “Well, it’s not a bad idea to get the old hands blistered right now at the start of the business. By next week you'll be all calloused and won't have to think of it all summer.” “My cousin got stuck out all r in one of these barges. Couldn't start her, and the waves finally turned it > over and they had to swim for it in the d h, near drowned—he was lucky at that.” “She smells pretty hot around | where this pipe runs out—suppose she's going to catch fire?” “Let's put on life-preservers, bore — | a hole in the damn thing, and let her sink. That's what Art| McClement did with that old crate of his. Oh, you haven't any — life-preservers? Well...” ANtey Jones No Beer and No Work The workingman isn’t going to wor- ry much about drinking interfering With his job when he hasn't got a “ DunKee Shipwrecked Professor—In my own country, you yrant fools, I'm re- garded as a n of letters. Cannibal King—Good! Fine! We'll make you into alphabet soup. “Is this your first trip across?” comicbooks.com