Riverview, Gone But Not Forgotten
Author | : Chuck Wlodarczyk |
Publisher | : Schori Press |
Total Pages | : 117 |
Release | : 1977-01-01 |
Genre | : Amusement parks |
ISBN | : 9780911694079 |
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Author | : Chuck Wlodarczyk |
Publisher | : Schori Press |
Total Pages | : 117 |
Release | : 1977-01-01 |
Genre | : Amusement parks |
ISBN | : 9780911694079 |
Author | : Randy Johnson |
Publisher | : Last Gasp |
Total Pages | : 174 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780867196221 |
This is a colourful history of the carnival sideshow and its distinctive banner art. With one hundred colour photographs, the book lovingly surveys this now vanished icon of early rural America, counterpointing classic freak show art with contemporary interpretations. Fifty archival black-and-white photos of sideshows provide a historical context for the banner illustrations.
Author | : Adam Mack |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 185 |
Release | : 2015-05-30 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 025209722X |
A hundred years ago and more, a walk down a Chicago street invited an assault on the senses. Untiring hawkers shouted from every corner. The manure from thousands of horses lay on streets pooled with molasses and puddled with kitchen grease. Odors from a river gelatinous and lumpy with all manner of foulness mingled with the all-pervading stench of the stockyard slaughterhouses. In Sensing Chicago, Adam Mack lets fresh air into the sensory history of Chicago in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by examining five case studies: the Chicago River, the Great Fire, the 1894 Pullman Strike, the publication of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, and the rise and fall of the White City amusement park. His vivid recounting of the smells, sounds, and tactile miseries of city life reveals how input from the five human senses influenced the history of class, race, and ethnicity in the city. At the same time, he transports readers to an era before modern refrigeration and sanitation, when to step outside was to be overwhelmed by the odor and roar of a great city in progress.
Author | : Robert Cartmell |
Publisher | : Popular Press |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Roller coasters |
ISBN | : 9780879723422 |
In 1984 America celebrated the one hundredth anniversary of the first successful roller coaster device: La Marcus A. Thompson’s switchback railway, erected at Coney Island. Robert Cartmell examines every phase of roller coaster history, from the use of the roller coaster by Albert Einstein to demonstrate his theory of physics, to John Allen’s use of psychology in designing one.
Author | : Dolores Haugh |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 134 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780738533070 |
Open every summer from 1904 to 1967, tells the story of the the world's largest amusement park and how it grew from twenty-two acres and three rides to 140 acres and more than one hunred attractions.
Author | : David Nasaw |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1999-04-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674417593 |
David Nasaw has written a sparkling social history of twentieth-century show business and of the new American public that assembled in the city's pleasure palaces, parks, theaters, nickelodeons, world's fair midways, and dance halls. The new amusement centers welcomed women, men, and children, native-born and immigrant, rich, poor and middling. Only African Americans were excluded or segregated in the audience, though they were overrepresented in parodic form on stage. This stigmatization of the African American, Nasaw argues, was the glue that cemented an otherwise disparate audience, muting social distinctions among "whites," and creating a common national culture.
Author | : Elizabeth Hand |
Publisher | : Mulholland Books |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2019-10-15 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0316485896 |
An intrepid young woman stalks a murderer through turn-of-the-century Chicago in "this rich, spooky, and atmospheric thriller that will appeal to fans of Henry Darger and Erik Larson alike" (Sarah McCarry). In the sweltering summer of 1915, Pin, the fourteen-year-old daughter of a carnival fortune-teller, dresses as a boy and joins a teenage gang that roams the famous Riverview amusement park, looking for trouble. Unbeknownst to the well-heeled city-dwellers and visitors who come to enjoy the midway, the park is also host to a ruthless killer who uses the shadows of the dark carnival attractions to conduct his crimes. When Pin sees a man enter the Hell Gate ride with a young girl, and emerge alone, she knows that something horrific has occurred. The crime will lead her to the iconic outsider artist Henry Darger, a brilliant but seemingly mad man. Together, the two navigate the seedy underbelly of a changing city to uncover a murderer few even know to look for.
Author | : Derek Gee |
Publisher | : Sharpshooters Productions, Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
LAUGH YOUR TROUBLES AWAY traces the history of the park with postcards, vintage ads, and rare photos. It's the product of years of research by Derek Gee and experiences of co-author Ralph Lopez, who worked at the park for 11 years. This unique mix makes LAUGH YOUR TROUBLES AWAY the most comprehensive history of Riverview available today.
Author | : Robert Goldsborough |
Publisher | : Open Road Media |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 2022-08-23 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1504078276 |
In this depression-era noir series debut, a politician’s murder leads a Chicago crime reporter to a conspiracy involving the Cubs’ race for the pennant. Chicago, 1938. A new mayoral candidate runs on a promise to stomp out organized crime. When he’s gunned down, it seems clear that the mob cast their ballot with bullets. But Chicago Tribune reporter Steve “Snap” Malek senses more to the story. And his hunch is confirmed by none other than former syndicate kingpin Al Capone. Incurring his editors’ anger, Malek ranges far beyond his beat, plunging headlong into a maverick investigation that soon spins beyond his control. In the process, he crosses paths with actress Helen Hayes, future Mayor Richard J. Daley, and pitching great Dizzy Dean, who was recently traded to the Cubs. And while Dizzy may be essential to a Cubs pennant win, he may also be the key to Malek’s very survival.