Medieval Tortures at Coney Island

8x10 Photo. Rare photo of thie facade and bally stage of this Messmore and Damon show at Coney Island called Medieval Tortures. Seen beyond the crowd to the left is a performer dressed as an executioner with a giant ax threatening a woman. ............... From "The Billboard," June 1935: "The Hall of Science Is not the only reminder of A Century of Progress, for direct from there, altho necessarily less ambitious because of smaller space, is Messmore & Damon's Medleval Torture Dungeons.

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