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TIL Brooklyn used to have a huge elephant brothel until it burned down (lemmy.world)

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephantine_Colossus

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

There was also one in Paris as part of the Moulin Rouge Garden Party that was apparently designed with inspiration from the Coney Island one.

Whilst digging, I also learned that the giant structure had been inspired by James V Lafferty’s “Elephantine Colossus”, a seven-story tourist attraction and hotel built on Coney Island in 1885, pictured below.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

That explains the one that was in the movie. I was curious about that.