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'''Charles Feltman''' (1841–1910) was a German-American baker who in 1867 invented the hot dog at Coney Island, NY. ]
'''Charles Feltman''' (1841–1910) was a German-American restaurateur. He is one of several claimed inventors of the ]. In 1871, Feltman began building his restaurant complex. It achieved its heyday in the 1920s, serving nearly 5,250,000 people a year, being a large restaurant complex with several restaurants, two bars, a beer garden, a famous carousel, and other attractions, and offering many types of food beyond hot dogs.


==From pushcart to restaurant mogul== ==From pushcart to restaurant mogul==
Feltman was born in 1841 in ] and emigrated to America in 1856, at the age of fifteen.<ref name=Schulz/> He was familiar with the frankfurter, named for ] in his native land. Feltman's operation began operating a ] pie wagon at the ] beach in 1867, selling food to beachgoers. In 1867 he came up with the idea of inserting a Frankfurt sausage popular in his home of Germany in a specially-made elongated roll which could conveniently be held and eaten on the street or at the beach. Feltman called his 1867 creation the Coney Island red hot, and it was soon the eating rage. Feltman was born in 1841 to a Jewish family in ] and emigrated to America in 1856, at the age of fifteen.<ref name=Schulz/> <ref>{{cite web | url=https://forward.com/food/408181/has-the-jewish-created-american-hot-dog-finally-assimilated/?amp=1 | title=Has the Jewish-Created American Hot Dog Finally Assimilated? | date=15 August 2018 }}</ref>He was familiar with the frankfurter, named for ] in his native land. Feltman's operation began operating a ] pie wagon at the ] beach in 1867, selling fresh pies to beachfront hotels. When his customers began asking him to add sandwiches to serve as well he added a small charcoal stove to his cart and began selling pork sausages on rolls which he called "red hots" and later "hot dogs."<ref>{{cite book |last=Berman |first=John S. |date=2003 |title=Portraits of America: Coney Island |url= |location=New York |publisher=Barnes and Noble Books, Inc. |page=18 |isbn=9780760738870}}</ref>


], a New York historian, explained its attraction: "It could be carried on the march, eaten on the sands between baths, consumed on a carousel, used as a baby's nipple to quiet an obstreperous infant, and had other economic appeals to the summer pleasure seeker".{{citation needed|date=March 2017}} ], a New York historian, explained its attraction: "It could be carried on the march, eaten on the sands between baths, consumed on a carousel, used as a baby's nipple to quiet an obstreperous infant, and had other economic appeals to the summer pleasure seeker".<ref>{{cite book | last =Brown | first =Henry Collins | authorlink =Henry Collins Brown | title =In the Golden Nineties | publisher =] | series = | volume = | edition = | date =1928 | location = | pages =384 | language = | url =https://books.google.com/books?id=06oBAAAAMAAJ&q=It+could+be+carried+on+the+march,+eaten+on+the+sands+between+baths,+consumed+on+a+carousel,+used+as+a+baby%27s+nipple+to+quiet+an+obstreperous+infant,+and+had+other+economic+appeals+to+the+summer+pleasure+seeker
| doi = | id = | isbn = | quote=}}</ref>


However, it took some time for the public to decide what to call Feltman's creation. Frankfurter, sausage, Coney Island red hot; none of them really captured the public's imagination. Coney Island chicken and weenie (from the Austrian wienerwurst) both had their proponents. But it was popular uncertainty about exactly what kind of meat was in these casings that ultimately determined that it would be called "hot dog".{{citation needed|date=March 2017}} However, it took some time for the public to decide what to call Feltman's creation. Frankfurter, sausage, Coney Island red hot; none of them really captured the public's imagination. Coney Island chicken and weenie (from the Austrian wienerwurst) both had their proponents. But it was popular uncertainty about exactly what kind of meat was in these casings that ultimately determined that it would be called "hot dog".{{citation needed|date=March 2017}}


in 1870, Feltman leased land and began building his restaurant complex. Feltman's Oceanside Pavilion became the largest and most extravagant restaurant complex in the world. It achieved its heyday in the 1920s, serving nearly 5,250,000 people a year, being a large restaurant complex with several restaurants, two bars, a beer garden, a famous carousel, and other attractions, and offering many types of food beyond hot dogs.<ref name=Gothamist/><ref name=Gothamist2/><ref name=Schulz/> In 1871, Feltman leased land and began building his restaurant complex. It achieved its heyday in the 1920s, serving nearly 5,250,000 people a year, being a large restaurant complex with several restaurants, two bars, a beer garden, a famous carousel, and other attractions, and offering many types of food beyond hot dogs.<ref name=Gothamist/><ref name=Gothamist2/><ref name=Schulz/>


] was working at Feltman's as a roll slicer when he quit to found rival ]. Handwerker undersold Feltman (hot dogs for ten cents instead of five) and ran a more downscale operation than Feltman's, but eventually Nathan's became the most successful and iconic Coney Island hot dog purveyor and a nationwide brand which thrived into the 21st century.<ref name=Sentinel/> ] was working at Feltman's as a roll slicer when he quit to found rival ]. Handwerker undersold Feltman, offering hot dogs for five cents instead of ten, at a more downscale operation than Feltman's, but eventually Nathan's became the most successful and iconic Coney Island hot dog purveyor and a nationwide brand which thrived into the 21st century.<ref name=Sentinel/>


==Family and business after his death== ==Family and business after his death==
Feltman died in 1910 (he is interred at ] in ], ])<ref name=gravelyspeaking/><ref name=Richman/> after which his family ran the business. Feltman's sons Charles L. Feltman and Alfred F. Feltman and grandson Charles A. Feltman, who had been operating the restaurant, sold the operation in 1946 to ] and others.<ref name=Schulz/><ref name=KallmanObit/><ref name=Eagle/> The restaurant closed in 1954.<ref name=Gothamist/> The land was later used to construct the now-derelict ] amusement park which opened in 1962 and closed in 2008. The last remnant of Feltman's – the building that had housed the kitchen – was demolished in 2010.<ref name=Schulz/> Feltman died in 1910 (he is interred at ] in ], ])<ref name=gravelyspeaking/><ref name=Richman/> after which his family ran the business. Feltman's sons Charles L. Feltman and Alfred F. Feltman and grandson Charles A. Feltman, who had been operating the restaurant, sold the operation in 1946 to ] and others.<ref name=Schulz/><ref name=KallmanObit/><ref name=Eagle/> The restaurant closed in 1954.<ref name=Gothamist/> The land was later used to construct the ] amusement park which opened in 1962 and closed in 2008, subsequently replaced by a new Luna Park. The last remnant of Feltman's – the building that had housed the kitchen – was demolished in 2010.<ref name=Schulz/>


Charle's Feltman's grandson Charles A. Feltman invented the ],<ref name=Patents/> a pneumatic ] used in fair and amusement park stalls for many decades and continuing well into the 21st century (the device is used by players to shoot out all traces of a red star on a paper target). Shooting Star Games was founded by Charles A. Feltman and continues to manufacture the device in the 21st century.<ref name=ShootingStar/> Charles' Feltman's grandson Charles A. Feltman invented the ],<ref name=Patents/> a pneumatic ] used in fair and amusement park stalls for many decades and continuing well into the 21st century (the device is used by players to shoot out all traces of a red star on a paper target). Shooting Star Games was founded by Charles A. Feltman and continues to manufacture the device in the 21st century.<ref name=ShootingStar/> There was for years a shooting gallery on the original Feltman's site.


Coney Island Tours founder Michael Quinn revived the Feltman's of Coney Island brand with a line of packaged hot dogs and a location called Feltman's Kitchen in the ].<ref name=Gothamist3/> In 2017 Quinn has opened a Feltman's of Coney Island back at the original address of 1000 Surf Ave.{{citation needed|date=April 2017}} In 2017, a hot dog emporium named Feltman's of Coney Island in New York's ] was opened on the original site, a homage to the original Feltman's.<ref name=Gothamist3/><ref name=BBC/>


==References== ==References==
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<ref name=Gothamist>{{cite web |url=http://gothamist.com/2016/08/23/best_hot_dog_ever_man.php#photo-1 |title=Behind This Tiny Window Is NYC's Best Hot Dog |author=Scott Lynch |date=August 23, 2010 |work=Gothamist |accessdate=March 30, 2017}}</ref> <ref name=Gothamist>{{cite web |url=http://gothamist.com/2016/08/23/best_hot_dog_ever_man.php#photo-1 |title=Behind This Tiny Window Is NYC's Best Hot Dog |author=Scott Lynch |date=August 23, 2010 |work=Gothamist |accessdate=March 30, 2017 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170722140512/http://gothamist.com/2016/08/23/best_hot_dog_ever_man.php#photo-1 |archivedate=July 22, 2017 }}</ref>


<ref name=Gothamist2>{{cite web |urlhttp://gothamist.com/2015/04/14/feltmans_coney_island_returns.php= |title=Hot Dog Creator Feltman's May Return To Coney Island |author=Nell Casey |date=April 14, 2015 |work=Gothamist |accessdate=March 31, 2017}}</ref> <ref name=Gothamist2>{{cite web |title=Hot Dog Creator Feltman's May Return To Coney Island|url=https://gothamist.com/food/hot-dog-creator-feltmans-may-return-to-coney-island |author=Nell Casey |date=April 14, 2015 |work=Gothamist }}</ref>


<ref name=Gothamist3>{{cite web |url=http://gothamist.com/2016/08/23/best_hot_dog_ever_man.php#photo-1 |title=Behind This Tiny Window Is NYC's Best Hot Dog |author=Scott Lynch |date=August 23, 2016 |work=Gothamist |accessdate=March 31, 2017}}</ref> <ref name=Gothamist3>{{cite web |url=http://gothamist.com/2016/08/23/best_hot_dog_ever_man.php#photo-1 |title=Behind This Tiny Window Is NYC's Best Hot Dog |author=Scott Lynch |date=August 23, 2016 |work=Gothamist |accessdate=March 31, 2017 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170722140512/http://gothamist.com/2016/08/23/best_hot_dog_ever_man.php#photo-1 |archivedate=July 22, 2017 }}</ref>


<ref name=Sentinel>{{cite web |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=kP9DAAAAIBAJ&sjid=U7AMAAAAIBAJ&pg=2778,5148287 |title=Inventor of Coney Island Cut Hot Dogs to Five Cents |author=UPI (United Press International) |date=March 25, 1974 |work=The Daily Sentinel |location=Middleport-Pomoroy, Ohio |accessdate=March 30, 2017 |page=7}}</ref> <ref name=Sentinel>{{cite web |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=kP9DAAAAIBAJ&sjid=U7AMAAAAIBAJ&pg=2778,5148287 |title=Inventor of Coney Island Cut Hot Dogs to Five Cents |author=UPI (United Press International) |date=March 25, 1974 |work=the Daily Sentinel |accessdate=March 30, 2017 |page=7}}</ref>


<ref name=Schulz>{{cite web |url=https://www.6sqft.com/before-nathans-there-was-feltmans-the-history-of-the-coney-island-hot-dog/ |title=Before Nathan’s There Was Feltman's: The History of the Coney Island Hot Dog |author=Dana Schulz |date=June 20, 2016 |work=6sqft |accessdate=March 31, 2017}}</ref> <ref name=Schulz>{{cite web |url=https://www.6sqft.com/before-nathans-there-was-feltmans-the-history-of-the-coney-island-hot-dog/ |title=Before Nathan's There Was Feltman's: The History of the Coney Island Hot Dog |author=Dana Schulz |date=June 20, 2016 |work=6sqft |accessdate=March 31, 2017}}</ref>


<ref name=KallmanObit>{{cite web |url=http://www.nytimes.com/1964/09/04/alvan-e-kallman-62-dies.html?_r=0 |title=Alvan E. Kallman, 62, Dies |author= |date=September 4, 1964 |work=New York Times |accessdate=March 30, 2017}}</ref> <ref name=KallmanObit>{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1964/09/04/alvan-e-kallman-62-dies.html?_r=0 |title=Alvan E. Kallman, 62, Dies |author= |date=September 4, 1964 |work=New York Times |accessdate=March 30, 2017}}</ref>


<ref name=gravelyspeaking>{{Cite web |url=https://gravelyspeaking.com/2013/09/11/the-mausoleum-that-the-hot-dog-built/|title=The Mausoleum that the Hot Dog Built |date=September 12, 2013| website=Gravely Speaking |access-date=November 11, 2016}}</ref> <ref name=gravelyspeaking>{{Cite web |url=https://gravelyspeaking.com/2013/09/11/the-mausoleum-that-the-hot-dog-built/|title=The Mausoleum that the Hot Dog Built |date=September 12, 2013| website=Gravely Speaking |access-date=November 11, 2016}}</ref>


<ref name=Richman>{{cite book |last=Richman |first=Jeffrey I |title=Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery: New York's Buried Treasure |year=1998 |publisher=Green Wood Cemetery |isbn= 978-0966343502 |pages=104-05}}</ref> <ref name=Richman>{{cite book |last=Richman |first=Jeffrey I |title=Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery: New York's Buried Treasure |year=1998 |publisher=Green Wood Cemetery |isbn= 978-0966343502 |pages=104–05}}</ref>


<ref name=Eagle>{{cite news |date=April 29, 1946 |title=Feltman Family Sells Famous Coney Resort |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/52909847/ |url-access=subscription |work=Brooklyn Eagle |location=Brooklyn |access-date=March 31, 2017 |page=3}}</ref> <ref name=Eagle>{{cite news |date=April 29, 1946 |title=Feltman Family Sells Famous Coney Resort |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/52909847/ |url-access=subscription |work=Brooklyn Eagle |location=Brooklyn |access-date=March 31, 2017 |page=3}}</ref>
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<ref name=ShootingStar>{{cite web |url=http://www.shootingstargames.com/ |title=Shooting Star |work=Shooting Star website |accessdate=April 1, 2017}}</ref> <ref name=ShootingStar>{{cite web |url=http://www.shootingstargames.com/ |title=Shooting Star |work=Shooting Star website |accessdate=April 1, 2017}}</ref>

<ref name=BBC>{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20240703-the-truth-about-the-us-most-iconic-food |title=The truth about the US' most iconic food |author=Julia Hammond |date=July 4, 2024 |publisher=BBC |accessdate=July 4, 2024}}</ref>

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German-American restaurateur
Charles Feltman, circa 1910

Charles Feltman (1841–1910) was a German-American restaurateur. He is one of several claimed inventors of the hot dog. In 1871, Feltman began building his restaurant complex. It achieved its heyday in the 1920s, serving nearly 5,250,000 people a year, being a large restaurant complex with several restaurants, two bars, a beer garden, a famous carousel, and other attractions, and offering many types of food beyond hot dogs.

From pushcart to restaurant mogul

Feltman was born in 1841 to a Jewish family in Germany and emigrated to America in 1856, at the age of fifteen. He was familiar with the frankfurter, named for Frankfurt-am-Main in his native land. Feltman's operation began operating a pushcart pie wagon at the Coney Island beach in 1867, selling fresh pies to beachfront hotels. When his customers began asking him to add sandwiches to serve as well he added a small charcoal stove to his cart and began selling pork sausages on rolls which he called "red hots" and later "hot dogs."

Henry Collins Brown, a New York historian, explained its attraction: "It could be carried on the march, eaten on the sands between baths, consumed on a carousel, used as a baby's nipple to quiet an obstreperous infant, and had other economic appeals to the summer pleasure seeker".

However, it took some time for the public to decide what to call Feltman's creation. Frankfurter, sausage, Coney Island red hot; none of them really captured the public's imagination. Coney Island chicken and weenie (from the Austrian wienerwurst) both had their proponents. But it was popular uncertainty about exactly what kind of meat was in these casings that ultimately determined that it would be called "hot dog".

In 1871, Feltman leased land and began building his restaurant complex. It achieved its heyday in the 1920s, serving nearly 5,250,000 people a year, being a large restaurant complex with several restaurants, two bars, a beer garden, a famous carousel, and other attractions, and offering many types of food beyond hot dogs.

Nathan Handwerker was working at Feltman's as a roll slicer when he quit to found rival Nathan's. Handwerker undersold Feltman, offering hot dogs for five cents instead of ten, at a more downscale operation than Feltman's, but eventually Nathan's became the most successful and iconic Coney Island hot dog purveyor and a nationwide brand which thrived into the 21st century.

Family and business after his death

Feltman died in 1910 (he is interred at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York) after which his family ran the business. Feltman's sons Charles L. Feltman and Alfred F. Feltman and grandson Charles A. Feltman, who had been operating the restaurant, sold the operation in 1946 to Alvan Kallman and others. The restaurant closed in 1954. The land was later used to construct the Astroland amusement park which opened in 1962 and closed in 2008, subsequently replaced by a new Luna Park. The last remnant of Feltman's – the building that had housed the kitchen – was demolished in 2010.

Charles' Feltman's grandson Charles A. Feltman invented the Shooting Star Tommy Gun, a pneumatic BB machine gun used in fair and amusement park stalls for many decades and continuing well into the 21st century (the device is used by players to shoot out all traces of a red star on a paper target). Shooting Star Games was founded by Charles A. Feltman and continues to manufacture the device in the 21st century. There was for years a shooting gallery on the original Feltman's site.

In 2017, a hot dog emporium named Feltman's of Coney Island in New York's East Village was opened on the original site, a homage to the original Feltman's.

References

  1. ^ Dana Schulz (June 20, 2016). "Before Nathan's There Was Feltman's: The History of the Coney Island Hot Dog". 6sqft. Retrieved March 31, 2017.
  2. "Has the Jewish-Created American Hot Dog Finally Assimilated?". 15 August 2018.
  3. Berman, John S. (2003). Portraits of America: Coney Island. New York: Barnes and Noble Books, Inc. p. 18. ISBN 9780760738870.
  4. Brown, Henry Collins (1928). In the Golden Nineties. Valentine's Manual Incorporated. p. 384.
  5. ^ Scott Lynch (August 23, 2010). "Behind This Tiny Window Is NYC's Best Hot Dog". Gothamist. Archived from the original on July 22, 2017. Retrieved March 30, 2017.
  6. Nell Casey (April 14, 2015). "Hot Dog Creator Feltman's May Return To Coney Island". Gothamist.
  7. UPI (United Press International) (March 25, 1974). "Inventor of Coney Island Cut Hot Dogs to Five Cents". the Daily Sentinel. p. 7. Retrieved March 30, 2017.
  8. "The Mausoleum that the Hot Dog Built". Gravely Speaking. September 12, 2013. Retrieved November 11, 2016.
  9. Richman, Jeffrey I (1998). Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery: New York's Buried Treasure. Green Wood Cemetery. pp. 104–05. ISBN 978-0966343502.
  10. "Alvan E. Kallman, 62, Dies". New York Times. September 4, 1964. Retrieved March 30, 2017.
  11. "Feltman Family Sells Famous Coney Resort". Brooklyn Eagle. Brooklyn. April 29, 1946. p. 3. Retrieved March 31, 2017.
  12. "Amusement pneumatic machine gun – United States Patent 2801624". Free Patents Online. Retrieved April 1, 2017.
  13. "Shooting Star". Shooting Star website. Retrieved April 1, 2017.
  14. Scott Lynch (August 23, 2016). "Behind This Tiny Window Is NYC's Best Hot Dog". Gothamist. Archived from the original on July 22, 2017. Retrieved March 31, 2017.
  15. Julia Hammond (July 4, 2024). "The truth about the US' most iconic food". BBC. Retrieved July 4, 2024.
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