{"id":650,"date":"2012-08-29T13:05:38","date_gmt":"2012-08-29T18:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/?p=650"},"modified":"2012-08-29T13:05:38","modified_gmt":"2012-08-29T18:05:38","slug":"great-storm-simulation-at-coney-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/?p=650","title":{"rendered":"Great Storm Simulation at Coney Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/?attachment_id=649\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-649\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-649\" title=\"1902 Coney Island Simulation of the 1900 Storm in Galveston\" src=\"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/wpbeta\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/coney-island-450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"293\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The odd wording in the caption of this old Galveston post card got us wondering what was going on. <em>&#8220;Stupendous Reproduction of the Great Tidal Wave?&#8221;<\/em> A little web searching turned up some research by <strong>Mr. Jeffrey Stanton<\/strong>, a Coney Island historian. Apparently there was a market for elaborate simulations of various disasters that the Coney Island showmen were eager to produce:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>(the) showmen were quick to satisfy the public&#8217;s morbid curiosity to experience reenactment of the world&#8217;s calamities. Soon there were shows depicting the Galveston Flood, the volcanic eruption of Mont Pelee, and the naval battle of the Russo-Japanese War.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can read more at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.westland.net\/coneyisland\/articles\/shows.htm\">the author&#8217;s website<\/a>. The postcard is from around 1902.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The odd wording in the caption of this old Galveston post card got us wondering what was going on. &#8220;Stupendous Reproduction of the Great Tidal Wave?&#8221; A little web searching turned up some research by Mr. Jeffrey Stanton, a Coney &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/?p=650\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Great Storm Simulation at Coney Island<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}