“Suddenly the house started to rumble, china-plates on the walls were rattling, the chandelier was swinging, and I heard people outside screaming. But my future in-laws were calmly sitting there drinking coffee. I thought an earthquake was happening or that I was losing my mind. But then my fiancé said, ‘It’s just the coaster. It will run a lot because it’s summertime’.”

In 1976, when Woody Allen was location scouting Coney Island, he saw the house and immediately changed his character’s home to the one under the coaster. The coaster stopped operation in 1982. A fire gutted the house in 1991. The coaster was torn down in 2000.

“When I was a boy and visited my aunt's house, the coaster sound and vibrating bed would put me to sleep,” said one relative.

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