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Coney Island
Author | : Charles Denson |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1580084559 |
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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.
Coney Island 40 Years 1970 2010
Author | : Harvey Stein |
Publsiher | : Schiffer Publishing Limited |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Photography |
ISBN | : 0764337963 |
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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.
Good Old Coney Island
Author | : Edo McCullough |
Publsiher | : Fordham University Press |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 1957 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : UOM:39015046424209 |
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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.
A Coney Island of the Mind
Author | : Lawrence Ferlinghetti |
Publsiher | : New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 1958 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0811200418 |
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Twenty-nine poems from the 1950's.
My Coney Island Baby
Author | : Billy O'Callaghan |
Publsiher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2019-01-17 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781473558489 |
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'A poignant, piercing meditation on middle age and the passing of time... will linger with you long after the book is closed' Guardian *SHORTLISTED FOR THE ENCORE AWARD 2020* On a bitterly cold winter’s afternoon, Michael and Caitlin escape their unhappy marriages to keep an illicit rendezvous. Once a month, for the past quarter of a century, Coney Island has been their haven; these precious, hidden hours their only nourishment. But now, amid the howling of an angry snowstorm, the shut-down, out-of-season resort feels like the edge of the world. And their lives, suddenly, are on the brink – with news of serious illness on one side, and a move to the Midwest on the other.
Amusing the Million
Author | : John F. Kasson |
Publsiher | : Hill and Wang |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2011-04-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781429952231 |
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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.
A Coney Island Reader
Author | : Louis J. Parascandola,John Parascandola |
Publsiher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 2014-12-09 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9780231538190 |
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This literary anthology celebrates the history and romance of Coney Island with works by some of the 19th and 20th centuries’ greatest authors and poets. Featuring a stunning gallery of portraits by the world's finest poets, essayists, and fiction writers--including Walt Whitman, Stephen Crane, José Martí, Maxim Gorky, Federico García Lorca, Isaac Bashevis Singer, E. E. Cummings, Djuna Barnes, Colson Whitehead, Robert Olen Butler, and Katie Roiphe—this anthology illuminates the unique history and transporting experience of New York City’s quintessential beach destination. Moody, mystical, and enchanting, Coney Island has thrilled newcomers and soothed native New Yorkers for decades. Its fantasy entertainments, renowned beach foods, world-class boardwalk, and expansive beach offer a kaleidoscopic panorama of people, places, and events that have inspired writers of all types and nationalities. It becomes, as Lawrence Ferlinghetti once wrote, "a Coney Island of the mind."
Coney Island
Author | : William J. Phalen |
Publsiher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2016-07-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781476623733 |
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Before the Civil War, Coney Island boasted a beach, a dozen small hotels with ramshackle bathhouses, some chowder stands and a few saloons. After the war, it was taken over by powerful individuals who made its 0.7 square miles a domain of the wealthy. By 1905, with the population of New York City at four million, the city’s amusement park builders designed an entertainment wonderland on the island that even the poor could enjoy, creating a “nickel empire,” where visitors paid five cents for the subway, five cents for a Nathan’s hot dog and five cents for a ride. In 1910, Coney Island saw 20 million visitors—more than Disneyland and Disney World combined could claim 70 years later, adjusted for population growth. Through the decades, the island has seen changes of fortune, floods and fires, cycles of decay and rehabilitation. Yet the ultimate power on the island was and is the government of the city of New York, which—for good or ill—has made Coney Island what it is today.