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Author: Charles Denson Publisher: ISBN: 9781580084550 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 294
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Denson gives us an insider's look at one of New York's best-known neighborhoods, weaving together memories of his childhood adventures with colorful stories of the area's past and interviews with local personalities, all brought to life by hundreds of photographs, detailed maps, and authentic memorabilia.
Author: Charles Denson Publisher: ISBN: 9781580084550 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 294
Book Description
Denson gives us an insider's look at one of New York's best-known neighborhoods, weaving together memories of his childhood adventures with colorful stories of the area's past and interviews with local personalities, all brought to life by hundreds of photographs, detailed maps, and authentic memorabilia.
Author: Edo McCullough Publisher: Fordham University Press ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 362
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The third period was that of the nickel empire when the subways reached the island, the great hordes arrived, and Coney grew cheap and garish. In its fourth period, Coney Island became a beautiful seaside park."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Brian J. Cudahy Publisher: Fordham Univ Press ISBN: 082322211X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 501
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A 150-year history of the planning, construction, and development of all forms of mass transportation in Brooklyn, New York. How We Got to Coney Island is the definitive history of mass transportation in Brooklyn. Covering 150 years of extraordinary growth, Cudahy tells the complete story of the trolleys, street cars, steamboats, and railways that helped create New York’s largest borough—and the remarkable system that grew to connect the world’s most famous seaside resort with Brooklyn, New York City across the river, and, ultimately, the rest of the world. Includes tables, charts, photographs, and maps. Praise for How We Got to Coney Island “This is an example of a familiar and decidedly old-fashioned genre of transport history. It is primarily an examination of the business politics of railway development and amalgamation in Brooklyn and adjoining districts since the mid-nineteenth century.” —The Journal of Transport History
Author: John F. Kasson Publisher: Hill and Wang ISBN: 1429952237 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 160
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Coney Island: the name still resonates with a sense of racy Brooklyn excitement, the echo of beach-front popular entertainment before World War I. Amusing the Million examines the historical context in which Coney Island made its reputation as an amusement park and shows how America's changing social and economic conditions formed the basis of a new mass culture. Exploring it afresh in this way, John Kasson shows Coney Island no longer as the object of nostalgia but as a harbinger of modernity--and the many photographs, lithographs, engravings, and other reproductions with which he amplifies his text support this lively thesis.
Author: Harvey Stein Publisher: Schiffer Publishing Limited ISBN: 9780764337963 Category : Photography Languages : en Pages : 0
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Since 1970, when world-renowned photographer Harvey Stein first turned his discerning eye toward Coney Island, his love affair with this New York beachfront amusement park began to grow. Over 200 compelling black and white photos tell the tale of his 40-year romance with this iconic locale. Entering Coney Island through his lens is like stepping into another culture, capturing the lives and times of those who work and play there. There is a sense of adventure, a thrilling escape from daily worries, and much pleasure, whether riding the jarring Cyclone roller coaster, walking the boardwalk, viewing the Mermaid Parade, or sunbathing on the beach. Coney Island, America's first amusement park, is celebrated worldwide. It is a fantasyland of the past with an irrepressible optimism about its future.
Author: Brian J. Cudahy Publisher: Fordham Univ Press ISBN: 9780823222094 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 346
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"Combining vivid social history with a skilled, detailed account of new transportation technologies, Cudahy surveys more than 150 years of Brooklyn life, starting with horse-powered street railways such as the Coney Island and Brooklyn Railroad that first linked the city of Brooklyn to the undeveloped beachfront of 1862. He takes us through the parallel histories of street-cars, steamboats (Manhattan to Coney Island in 1880 in only an hour and a half), excursion railways, and elevated lines."--Jacket.
Author: Barbara Scheiber Publisher: Sowilo Press ISBN: 9780984472796 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 0
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At the dawn of the twentieth century, with only the force of his charm, intellect and golden tongue, Aaron Gershon escapes the tenements of New York City's Lower East Side. Courting the women who love him with promises and dreams, Aaron leaves a tide of longing in his wake. Emerging from his shadow, each of them works to shape a new life through resilience, courage and love--Page 4 of cover.
Author: Harvey Stein Publisher: Schiffer Publishing ISBN: 9780764364068 Category : Languages : en Pages : 208
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ConeyIsland is an American icon celebrated worldwide, a fantasy land of thepast with an evolving present and an irrepressible optimism about itsfuture. It is a democratic entertainment where people of all walks oflife and places are brought together. There isn't anywhere else like it, and that is much of its appeal. Here 170 evocative black-and-white images taken by eminent photographer Harvey Stein from 1970 through 2020 simultaneously look back in time while giving a current view to the people and activities of this "poor man's Riviera." The images capture the wonder and intimacy of Coney Island. There is no photo book that has been published that documents a 50-year time period of a famous location taken by one photographer. Being in Coney Island is like stepping into another society, rather than just experiencing a day's entertainment.
Author: Woody Register Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 9780195167320 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 422
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A portrait of the pioneering entrepreneur who designed and built Luna Park - which in 1903 transformed Coney Island into a respectable venue for middle-class recreation - and created the Hippodrome, the world's largest theater when it opened in 1905, filling it with lavish spectacles at affordable ticket prices. The author also explores the development of the idea of adult amusements in America during Thompson's day, and ours.
Author: Charles Denson
Author: Charles Denson
Author: Edo McCullough
Author: Brian J. Cudahy
Author: John F. Kasson
Author: Harvey Stein
Author: Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Author: Brian J. Cudahy
Author: Barbara Scheiber
Author: Harvey Stein
Author: Woody Register