Lucy the Elephant
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Lucy the Elephant is a six-story elephant-shaped wood frame and tin clad building, constructed in 1881 by James V. Lafferty in Margate City, New Jersey. Lucy was built with the purpose of promoting re
Lucy in 2025
U.S. patent 268,503
HABS image circa 1976
Lucy's interior in 2019
Elephantine Colossus
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The Elephantine Colossus was a tourist attraction located on Coney Island in Brooklyn, New York City, United States.
Lucy the Elephant
…The Rocketeer, although the film takes place in Southern California. The Jardin the Paris Elephant, a real-life large elephant structure inspired by Elephantine Colossus (a larger version of Lucy, built by Lafferty in 1885 on Coney Island), is featured as the location of the boudoir of Nicole Kidman's character in the…
The Elephantine Colossus (unknown date)
A Coney Island Tragedy: Burning of the Historic Elephant Cover from October 10, 1896, issue of The Illustrated American