Damn, Gina

These teeth aren't going to bleach themselves.
Jun 02
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Elephant Hotel, Coney Island, 1890 In 1885 James V. Lafferty built the Elephant Hotel, a small hotel in the shape of an elephant. It stood 122 feet high, with legs 60 feet in circumference. A cigar store operated out of one front leg, and a diorama was in the other. A spiral staircase in the hind leg led visitors upstairs where a shop and several guest rooms were located. The elephant’s head, facing the ocean, offered good vistas of the sea through slits where the eyes were located. The Elephant was a huge den of iniquity, full of men slumming with prostitutes and opium, and gave birth to the phrase “seeing the elephant.”

Elephant Hotel, Coney Island, 1890

In 1885 James V. Lafferty built the Elephant Hotel, a small hotel in the shape of an elephant. It stood 122 feet high, with legs 60 feet in circumference. A cigar store operated out of one front leg, and a diorama was in the other. A spiral staircase in the hind leg led visitors upstairs where a shop and several guest rooms were located. The elephant’s head, facing the ocean, offered good vistas of the sea through slits where the eyes were located.

The Elephant was a huge den of iniquity, full of men slumming with prostitutes and opium, and gave birth to the phrase “seeing the elephant.”