Description
This sepia-toned postcard shows a wooden roller coaster under construction at Steeplechase Island in Bridgeport, Connecticut. The muted browns and greens highlight the coaster’s intricate wooden structure. This souvenir postcard, from approximately the 1920s, features a 1-cent US postage stamp and a Bridgewater, Connecticut postmark.
Front Text (cleaned):
2733 Roller Coaster, Steeplechase Island, Bridgeport, Conn.
Dear Barbara, Coney Island is not the only place.
Loretta
Back Text (cleaned):
Souvenir Post Card Co., New York and Berlin.
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Post Card
THIS SIDE FOR THE ADDRESS
Miss B. Klaus,
1706 Franklin Ave.,
69th bet 14th & 15th Ave.,
Brooklyn
