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For National Hot Dog Day: Three Posts About Coney Island Frankfurters

What a good day for Coney Island, for not only is National Tattoo Day, but it is also National Hot Dog Day. As we all know, the frank was invented at Coney — it’s no coincidence that I would pay attention to the subject. As it happens, I have written no less than THREE posts about Coney Island hot dogs:

  1. This one about Charles Feltman, inventor of the dog;
  2. This one reviewing a 2014 documentary about Nathan’s; 
  3. and This one, reviewing a 2019 movie about the Coney Hot Dog Eating Contest

Please give them a peep! But take care — it may make you ravenously hungry. These days I tend to choose the revived Feltman’s over the all-too-popular Famous Nathan’s. I always root for the underdog. 

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Writer and performer Trav S.D. (www.travsd.com) is best known for his books "No Applause, Just Throw Money: The Book That Made Vaudeville Famous" (2005) and "Chain of Fools: Silent Comedy and Its Legacies from Nickelodeons to Youtube" (2013). He has written for the NY Times, the Village Voice, American Theatre, Time Out NY, Reason, the Villager and numerous other publications. Trav has been in the vanguard of New York’s vaudeville and burlesque scenes since 1995 when he launched his company Mountebanks, presenting hundreds of acts ranging from Todd Robbins to Dirty Martini to Tammy Faye Starlite to the Flying Karamazov Brothers. He has directed his own plays, revues and solo pieces at such venues as Joe’s Pub, La Mama, HERE, Dixon Place, Theater for the New City, the Ohio Theatre, the Brick, and 6 separate shows in the NY International Fringe Festival. In 2014 he produced and directed the smash-hit "I’ll Say She Is", the first ever revival of the Marx Brothers hit 1924 Broadway show in the NY International Fringe Festival.