Episode 220: The Zipper

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Music

• Swiming by Explosions in the Sky

• Walking Song by Kevin Volans and the Netherlands Wind Ensemble

• I Walk on Guilded Splinters by Johnny Jenkins

• Seduction by the Balanescu Quartet

• Lunette by Les Baxter and Dr. Samuel J. Hoffman

• Running Around by Buddy Ross

• September by Giles Lamb

Notes

• This episode was pieced together from a ton of little fragments but I wanted to steer folks to a couple of resources in particular: this excellent article • from a few years back in the Toronto Star by Katie Daubs, and this documentary • from filmmaker, Amy Nicholson, that primarily uses the Zipper as a way to talk about changes at Coney Island but has some great details from Harold Chance and his sons.

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