By the sea with my 7-week-old granddaughter, Farrah Remy at Coney Island Beach, June 26, 2004 for the 22nd Annual Mermaid Parade! I had just showed Farrah the ocean for the first time. She couldn't take her eyes off it, and she thinks Grandma made it! Scroll down!
Farrah's first mermaid necklace, with glo-in-the-dark letter beads and a baby mermaid, modeled by mom Nelsha.
Mighty Afrodite's custom mermaid sporting a black leatherette tail matching M.A.'s and no arms like the Venus de Milo.
The Cars!
Awww, yeah! A hearse outitted for a love den.
A 45 record player.
The Parade
King Moby and Queen Theo
The original Mermaid Princess, Bambi
Wake'n'Bake Dave with his treasure
< Burlesque artiste Julie Atlas Muz
Uzi designer Mari >
Steve Pang aka Otto w/ vintage Buick Futura and a more recent model
T-shirt by Lynne Von
Women of Otto's Shrunken Head, Nell and Pam the Metal Queen
Blues harpist and building manager extrordinaire, Steve Greenbaum and band
Beach beauties
Schwinns
Hot-dog eating champ Takeru Kobayashi, aka "The Tsunami" enters the arena carried on a litter and greeted with carnations thrown by his adoring fans at Nathan's annual hot-dog eating contest at Coney Island. He broke his own record, glomming down an amazing 53 hot dogs in 12 minutes.