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Jul 3, - Mae Timpano lives alone under the old Thunderbolt Roller Coaster in Coney Island, Brooklyn. Surrounded by the Thunderbolt's tracks and.
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For Mae Timpano, it was home.

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In , while working as a waitress on Coney Island, Mae met Fred Moran, the owner and operator of the Thunderbolt roller coaster. Fred died in , and the Thunderbolt carried its last thrill-seeker soon after.


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In , Mae moved out, and the house was sold to a developer who dreamed of building a new amusement park on the famed island. But the coaster was silent for twelve years, and in November , with no warning, the city of New York bulldozed away one of its great urban treasures. Here, Mae tells the story of her years living in the house that the Thunderbolt rattled.

This documentary comes from Sound Portraits Productions, a mission-driven independent production company that was created by Dave Isay in Sound Portraits was the predecessor to StoryCorps and was dedicated to telling stories that brought neglected American voices to a national audience. I knew Freddy — I got to know Freddy, because he came in every morning and every afternoon, and then when we got friendly, he was in pretty near every three or four hours. He was big and heavy.

I liked him. I liked his personality. He was funny, he was good to me. Whenever he would put his arms around me I would feel the world — nobody could hurt me. I went out with him a few times. So we went over to the house.

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And we were sipping that, listening to records. And then for forty years, we had a lot of fun together. The Cyclone has a bigger dip, a bigger fall. The Thunderbolt was rougher in the turns.

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You know when you went down you bounced out of the car almost. The car would be practically sideways. A few things, you know, broke. My perfume tray fell off one time. It was devised and installed by William Meinch, with the assistance of his friend, Feucht.

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Thompson build and maintain scenic railways in Coney Island. William had absorbed some of his father's knowledge of things electrical, and was to develop shooting-gallery rifles that fired electrical impulses instead of bullets at targets. Although there were several fatalities during the operation of the Giant Racer, it was considered too tame a ride by the thrill-seekers of the Roaring Twenties, who wanted their coasters to take precipitous plunges, like the one the Stock Market would take shortly.

Accordingly, the Giant Coaster was torn down in , and in its place arose the famous Cyclone. The Cyclone Today The Cyclone was designed with a wooden frame and with less vibration, and was shorter. What made it thrilling were its wild turns and an initial straight-down dive of about ninety feet.

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This would be equivalent to the tantalizing experience of falling off the roof of a nine story building. As might have been expected, Feucht had a hand in its design and construction. It was first built for the Rosenthal Brothers. Shortly after the Rosenthals became involved in the development of Palisades Park in the mids, they agreed to sell the Cyclone to Feucht and George Kister, an experienced Coney Island veteran. Kister owned a well-known hotel-restaurant, carousel, theater adjacent to the entrance of Luna Park on Surf Avenue.


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After the City acquired the land, the Cyclone was permitted to continue operating under lease to Sylvio Pinto, who ran the ride by himself, until the owners of Astroland took over its management. Today, the Cyclone is operated by the New York City government. Return to Roller Coasters and Rides.