Pleasure-Seeking
in a Deranged World

Shitty But We Love It: The Ferris Wheel at Luna Park

The park has weathered more than its share of storms, both meteorological and manmade.

The Ferris wheel at Luna Park, while delightful, isn’t something one can only experience in Beirut. The Ferris wheel was famously invented for the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair, and there are amusement parks all over the world called Luna Park, after the original at New York’s Coney Island.

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