The Kid Of Coney Island
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| Author | : Woody Register |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 413 |
| Release | : 2001-10-18 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0195349288 |
A generation before Walt Disney, Fred Thompson was the "boy-wonder" of American popular amusements. At the turn of the 20th century, Thompson's entrepreneurial drive made him into an entertainment mogul who helped to define the popular culture of his day. In this lively biography, Woody Register tells Thompson's remarkable story and examines the transformation of commerce and entertainment as American society moved into an era of mass marketing and large-scale corporate enterprise. Getting his start as a promoter of carnival shows at world's fairs, Thompson was one of the principal developers of Coney Island, where he created the majestic Luna Park. Register traces Thompson's career as he built the mammoth Hippodrome Theater in Manhattan, where he mounted many productions noted for their spectacular--and spectacularly costly--staging effects. Register shows how Thompson's fantasies appealed to the growing legions of Americans who found themselves in a world that seemed increasingly "businesslike" and profit oriented. He illustrates how Thompson aggressively marketed to adult consumers a world of make-believe and childlike play, carefully crafting his own public image as "the boy who never grew up." Colorful, well-written, and insightful, The Kid of Coney Island brings to life a kaleidoscopic era in New York history as well as one of its most striking characters.
| Author | : Woody Register |
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| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2001 |
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| Author | : Gary Heiden |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 470 |
| Release | : 2017-12 |
| Genre | : Amusement parks |
| ISBN | : 9781976437397 |
"Roller Coaster Kids; Tales of 1960's Coney Island" is a Brooklyn artist's coming of age memoir that chronicles the author's many wild experiences while growing up in the unique Brooklyn, New York neighborhood of Coney Island during the tumultuous decade of the 1960's. One outrageous Coney little rascal story follows another, from almost being emasculated in a friendly chicken fight, to how his 1st. grade classmate's friendship informed his views about the ongoing civil rights movement, to almost being kidnapped by a strange, very lazy old lady, to exploring an old Sea Gate mansion about to be demolished by a giant bulldozer. "Roller Coaster Kids, Tales of 1960's" reads like a Brooklyn, New York Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn adventure. By 1960, only one grand amusement park remained in Coney Island, George C. Tilyou's Steeplechase Park. Who better to tell this classic Brooklyn, Coney Island story than the author, who is very likely the last little rascal to go on a ride in the old Steeplechase Park before it was demolished. If you love Brooklyn, New York or just love stories about growing up in America, or you have a connection to the historic decade of the 1960's, and you enjoy zany, crazy wild rides.... then this book is for you. It's all about Brooklyn, the sights and smells, even the beloved rooftop pigeon coops and the whirring acrobatic flocks taking to the sky above Coney Island. FORGETTABOUTIT!
| Author | : Robin Jaffee Frank |
| Publisher | : Yale University Press |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2015 |
| Genre | : Amusement parks |
| ISBN | : 9780300189902 |
Published on the occasion of an exhibition of the same name organized by the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut, and held there January 31-May 31, 2015; at the San Diego Museum of Art, Calif., July 11-October 13, 2015; at the Brooklyn Museum, N.Y., November 20, 2015-March 13, 2016; and at the McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Tex., May 11-September 11, 2016.
| Author | : Janet Morgan |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2021-09-30 |
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| ISBN | : 9781734702927 |
In March of 2020 the Covid 19 quarantine in Brooklyn was extreme. For people without cars and wary of public transportation life was very limited. In August we finally started riding the subway again and going down to a quiet Coney Island was a real treat. All the rides sat silent for a whole year. The collection of fisherman, homeless people and locals felt like an odd post-apocalyptic community. Everyone was very chatty when we were drawing and I heard a lot of stories. And not only people told stories?. During its year of sleep, Coney Island nourished us.
| Author | : Lawrence Ferlinghetti |
| Publisher | : New Directions Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 100 |
| Release | : 1958 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9780811200417 |
Twenty-nine poems from the 1950's.
| Author | : Woody Register |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 422 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9780195167320 |
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 | : Maria Rand |
| Publisher | : Lulu.com |
| Total Pages | : 123 |
| Release | : 2007-07-01 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 143032547X |
Maria Rand was born in 1924 in the Bronx, New York but spent most of her childhood in Coney Island, running away from bullies, sweeping up bathhouses, trying to run away and join the circus and finally turning into a con-woman with a heart of gold. This anthology of short stories tells of her wild, hilarious and sometimes heart-breaking life.
| Author | : Darcy Frey |
| Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| Total Pages | : 244 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
| ISBN | : 9780618446711 |
It ought to be just a game, but basketball on the playgrounds of Coney Island is much more than that -- for many young men it represents their only hope of escape from a life of crime, poverty, and despair. In The Last Shot, Darcy Frey chronicles the aspirations of four of the neighborhood's most promising players. What they have going for them is athletic talent, grace, and years of dedication. But working against them are woefully inadequate schooling, family circumstances that are often desperate, and the slick, brutal world of college athletic recruitment. Incisively and compassionately written, The Last Shot introduces us to unforgettable characters and takes us into their world with an intimacy seldom seen in contemporary journalism. The result is a startling and poignant expose of inner-city life and the big business of college basketball.
| Author | : Melanie Hope Greenberg |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 34 |
| Release | : 2019-09-10 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9780578552125 |
A shy little mermaid comes out of her shell to march with all the other sea creatures at the Coney Island Mermaid Parade.
