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Hilgemeiner's Dancing Palace Captures February Romance
In a chilly February at Hilgemeiner's Coney Island the twin sisters Calla and Lily, staid and dressed in elaborate outfits, meet Burton Shevlin a Mandel Cohen department store shipper. A shy start blooms into a first dance and fading winter isolation gives way to a hopeful, stagelike night.
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Coney Island
City of Fun
Coney
Hilgemeiner’s
Surf Avenue
Morpheus Land
Bowery
Hilgemeiner
O’heraghty
Calla
Lily
Carla
Burton Shevlin
Mandel & Cohen
Nations
Burton
Lil