With Coney Island headed toward closing at the end of the year, people are reminiscing about their memories at the amusement park.
Coney Island announced Thursday that the park and Sunlite Pool are closing on Dec. 31 to become a destination music venue. The Kenton County Faces and Places photo collection looks back at the past of the amusement park, which first opened in 1886.
Through its Faces and Places program, the Kenton County Public Library has collected nearly 130,000 photos of NKY, some newer, some older, all showing off the region’s unique history.
The library has been collecting historic photographs since the 1970s; until the online Faces and Places catalog launched, the photos lived in “file cabinets at the Covington Library and were accessible to the public who could visit,” Kenton County Public Library Executive Director Dave Schroeder told LINK nky.
Schroeder said the collection was really filled out when the Kentucky Post closed in 2007; he and the library director at that time, Wayne Onkst, asked if the paper would donate its photography collection.
All of the photos of Coney Island below were provided by the Kenton County Library Faces and Places.
