Coney Island : the people's playground / Michael Immerso.

Main entry:

Immerso, Michael, 1949-

Title & Author:

Coney Island : the people's playground / Michael Immerso.

Publication:

Description:

viii, 199 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Coney (1824-1875) -- The American Brighton (1876-1883) -- The Elephant Colossus (1884-1902) -- Baghdad by the sea (1903-1911) -- Seaside baroque (carousels, coasters, and amusements) -- Honky-tonk (cafes, dance dives, and concert halls) -- The Nickel Empire (1920-1933) -- Empire of the body (1934-1964) -- The mermaid parade (1965-2001).

Summary:

"Coney Island; The People's Playground is the first new history of Coney Island in almost half a century, tracing its evolution and cultural impact from its earliest development as a seaside resort to the present-day Mermaid Parade. Presented in a photo-documentary format featuring more than one hundred vintage photos, archival material, personal accounts, and contemporary sources, the book evokes the atmosphere of the resort as experienced by those who visited it during its heyday. Through the reminiscences of nineteenth- and twentieth-century writers, literary figures, and amusement historians, Michael Immerso traces Coney Island's remarkable ascent and subsequent decline, while at the same time examining the colorful individuals and complex social forces that contributed to its rise and fall." "Coney Island is not merely a documentary of the amusement industry or the story of a fabled amusement park, but rather a narrative of the way Americans, and particularly immigrants and urban Americans, came to regard the pursuit of leisure as part of their national birthright."--Jacket.

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Table of contents

ISBN:

0813531381 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780813531380 (cloth ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Middle class New York (State) New York Social life and customs.
Working class New York (State) New York Social life and customs.
Amusement parks New York (State) New York History.
Resorts New York (State) New York History.
Travailleurs New York (État) New York Mœurs et coutumes.
Lieux de villégiature New York (État) New York Histoire.
Amusement parks.
Manners and customs.
Middle class Social life and customs.
Resorts.
Working class Social life and customs.
Pretparken.
Coney Island (New York, N.Y.) History.
New York (N.Y.) History.
New York (N.Y.) Social life and customs.
Coney Island (New York, N.Y.) Histoire.
New York (N.Y.) Histoire.
New York (N.Y.) Mœurs et coutumes.
New York (State) New York.
New York (State) New York Coney Island.

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 227437
Call No.: F129.C75 I46 2002
Status: Available

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