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Happyland and the resort strip at South Beach
South Beach, Staten Island, New York
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By the 1880s this shore had hotels, beer gardens, bathhouses and a boardwalk nearly a third of a mile long. Happyland opened on 30 June 1906 across fifteen acres and drew thirty thousand people on its first day, with vaudeville, a Japanese tea garden and a shooting gallery. Fires in 1896 and 1919 tore through the strip, and Robert Moses cleared what was left in the 1930s for the boardwalk that opened in 1937.
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