NEW YORK—Denos’s Wonder Wheel Amusement Park will open Sunday for the first time this season, and as it has been since 1983, it will be a family affair.
The 150-foot Wonder Wheel is owned and operated by the Vourderis family. Dennis takes care of the operations while his brother and nephews tend to the maintenance of the 93-year-old crown jewel on Coney Island.
Dennis grew up in the shadows of the Wonder Wheel, working for his father, Denos, who owned a food-vendor stand on Coney Island. “I grew up behind the counter scooping icies,” Dennis said from the Coney Island boardwalk Wednesday.
