MYTH or LEGEND?

Posted by Nick at 9:10 am Coney Island

Jul 132010

The original Dreamland had an attraction “Lilliputia” aka “The Midget City” in the early nineteen hundreds. Three hundred midgets came to Dreamland to live in an experimental community as a replica 15th century Nuremburg, Germany. The Midget City had their own parliament, Fire Department, their own beach complete with midget lifeguards, There was also a “Midget Theater”, circus arena, miniature livery stable with diminutive horses, bantam chickens, and midget Chinese laundrymen. Everything was built in proportional scale of the resident inhabitants, from the theater to the beach lifeguard towers and toilets in their homes. Do you… believe it or not?

Dan M

Anything is possible in NYC, so it wouldn’t surpise me! I need a few beverages. Yankees rule ! Mets suck!
BronxCheer!

id love to have a midget gal pal girlfriend…..then she would be eye level with the package when we are both standing up!
Tim Higgins

I have no idea if this is true or not.
It sounds dumb enough to be real…..but since luna park has a replica, why not one of midgit city?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lisanne001/ Lisanne!

Yep, certainly was.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/coney/peopleevents/pande09.html
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lisanne001/ Lisanne!

And legend has it that when Luna Park burned down in 1911 only the Lilliputian fire brigade stayed in an attempt to fight the fire.
Joe

No..myth…no, no