Subj : Today in History - 1884
To   : All
From : Dave Drum
Date : Fri Jun 16 2023 04:13:00

6 June 1884 - A NEW THRILL RIDE DEBUTS AT CONEY ISLAND: A nickel gets
you on Coney Island's Switchback Railway, a new amusement park ride
carrying passengers on an undulating railroad track at up to 6 mph,
running a length of 600 feet and an overall drop of 43 feet. America's
first roller coaster will be a hit, spawning ever-bigger thrills.

The original Switchback Railway was the first roller coaster at Coney
Island in Brooklyn, New York City, and one of the earliest designed for
amusement in the United States. The 1885 patent states the invention
relates to the gravity double track switchback railway, which had
predicated the inclined plane railway, patented in 1878 by Richard
Knudsen. Coney Island's version was designed by LaMarcus Adna Thompson
in 1881 and constructed in 1884. It appears Thompson based his design,
at least in part, on the Mauch Chunk Switchback Railway which was a
coal-mining train that had started carrying passengers as a thrill ride
in 1827.

MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.06
 
      Title: Dirty Dave's Coney Island Hot Dog Sauce
 Categories: Beef, Vegetables, Chilies
      Yield: 48 Servings
 
  1 1/2 lb Finely ground beef
  1 1/2 lb Minced beef heart
      1 lb Suet
      2 tb Minced garlic
      1 tb Yellow mustard
      6 oz Water
      6 oz Tomato paste
      3 tb Chilli spice mix
           Salt & pepper
 
  Render the suet in a large skillet and cook the hamburger
  and beef heart until the meat has no pink left, stirring
  to break up any hint of lumps.
  
  Add the garlic and mustard. Mix the tomato paste with
  the water and add to the skillet, stirring the while.
  Now stir in the chilli spice and salt and pepper as you
  wish. Continue to cook until the mixture is done.
  
  Place in a stainless steel steam table vessel for serving
  over good quality (preferably all-meat) hot dogs.
  
  Stir sauce before dipping onto the sandwich so as to
  incorporate plenty of red "oil" to soak into the good
  quality buns. Top each Coney dog with yellow mustard
  (unless it's for me) and chopped onions. And plenty of
  napkins to catch the oil that wants to run down the
  customer's arm and stain his shirt.
  
  Uncle Dirty Dave's Kitchen
 
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