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Episode 220: The Zipper

2024/8/15
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Music

  • Swiming by Explosions in the Sky

  • Walking Song by Kevin Volans and the Netherlands Wind Ensemble

  • I Walk on Guilded Splinters by Johnny Jenkins

  • Seduction by the Balanescu Quartet

  • Lunette by Les Baxter and Dr. Samuel J. Hoffman

  • Running Around by Buddy Ross

  • September by Giles Lamb

Notes

  • This episode was pieced together from a ton of little fragments but I wanted to steer folks to a couple of resources in particular: this excellent article) from a few years back in the Toronto Star by Katie Daubs, and this documentary) from filmmaker, Amy Nicholson, that primarily uses the Zipper as a way to talk about changes at Coney Island but has some great details from Harold Chance and his sons.