Book Description
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 : Edo McCullough
Publisher :
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 28,77 MB
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN :
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 : Edo McCullough
Publisher : Scribner
Page : pages
File Size : 29,96 MB
Release : 2008-12-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780684863399
Author :
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 17,38 MB
Release : 1957
Category : Coney Island (New York, N.Y.)
ISBN :
Author : Charles Denson
Publisher :
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 47,59 MB
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 9781580084550
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 : John F. Kasson
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 30,42 MB
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1429952237
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 : Charles Denson
Publisher :
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 26,43 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Amusement parks
ISBN : 9780966698213
Author : Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 20,81 MB
Release : 1958
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780811200417
Twenty-nine poems from the 1950's.
Author : Claire Prentice
Publisher : New Harvest
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 11,98 MB
Release : 2014-10-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780544262287
Describes the story of a group of people from the Philippines who were transported to Coney Island in 1905 to be portrayed as “headhunting, dog-eating savages” in a Luna Park freak show.
Author : Kingsborough Historical Society (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher :
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 47,30 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Amusement parks
ISBN :
Catalogue of an exhibition of photographs documenting the history of Coney Island. Captions for the photographs are taken from Sodom by the Sea by Oliver Pilat and Jo Ranson, and Good Old Coney Island by Edo McCullough.
Author : Dawn Raffel
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 46,81 MB
Release : 2019-09-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1524744964
“A mosaic mystery told in vignettes, cliffhangers, curious asides, and some surreal plot twists as Raffel investigates the secrets of the man who changed infant care in America.”—NPR, 2018's Great Reads What kind of doctor puts his patients on display? This is the spellbinding tale of a mysterious Coney Island doctor who revolutionized neonatal care more than one hundred years ago and saved some seven thousand babies. Dr. Martin Couney's story is a kaleidoscopic ride through the intersection of ebullient entrepreneurship, enlightened pediatric care, and the wild culture of world's fairs at the beginning of the American Century. As Dawn Raffel recounts, Dr. Couney used incubators and careful nursing to keep previously doomed infants alive, while displaying these babies alongside sword swallowers, bearded ladies, and burlesque shows at Coney Island, Atlantic City, and venues across the nation. How this turn-of-the-twentieth-century émigré became the savior to families with premature infants—known then as “weaklings”—as he ignored the scorn of the medical establishment and fought the rising popularity of eugenics is one of the most astounding stories of modern medicine. Dr. Couney, for all his entrepreneurial gusto, is a surprisingly appealing character, someone who genuinely cared for the well-being of his tiny patients. But he had something to hide... Drawing on historical documents, original reportage, and interviews with surviving patients, Dawn Raffel tells the marvelously eccentric story of Couney's mysterious carnival career, his larger-than-life personality, and his unprecedented success as the savior of the fragile wonders that are tiny, tiny babies. A New York Times Book Review New & Noteworthy Title A Real Simple Best Book of 2018 Christopher Award-winner