[PDF] Playland eBook

Author : Kathryn W. Burke
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 22,81 MB
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9780738554709

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Playland offers an inviting look at the historic amusement park on the shore of the Long Island Sound in Rye. This book recalls the early days and the later years of Playland, a national historic landmark and America's only publicly owned amusement park. Opened in 1928 as part of the newly developed Westchester County Park System, Playland originally drew crowds that arrived via automobile, bus, and steamship for the circus acts, sideshows, and rides, such as the Swooper, an oval roller coaster, and the Derby Racer, one of only two left in the United States. An all-purpose resort, the park included a beach, bathhouse, pool, and casino with restaurants and games. Today the park draws even larger crowds--nearly a million people each season--that come for the Dragon Coaster and other rides, Kiddyland, the indoor ice rink, the pool, the beach, and the boardwalk.

Author : John Gregory Dunne
Publisher : Random House
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 22,83 MB
Release : 2012-05-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307817415

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A critically acclaimed best-seller set in the glamorous, gangster-dominated Hollywood of the 1940s tells the story of Blue Tyler, a child star who disappears from Hollywood and becomes a bag lady in New York City.

Author : Michèle Dufresne
Publisher :
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 34,35 MB
Release : 2018
Category :
ISBN : 9781603432634

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This brave little mouse is back in a new six-book set for levels B/2 to J/17. Readers can join Little Knight as he plays with pals and tries to evade the dreaded big cat.

Author : Robert Marchant
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 22,49 MB
Release : 2018-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1476633908

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This history of Westchester County, New York, from the time of European settlement to the present, examines four centuries of development in an iconic region that became the archetypal American suburb. Drawing on a wide range of primary sources, the author uncovers a complex and often surprising narrative of slavery, anti–Semitism, immigration, Jim Crow, silent film stars, suffragettes, gangland violence, political riots, eccentric millionaires, industry and aviation, man-made disasters and assassinations.

Author : Brian Dolan
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 22,23 MB
Release : 2009-01-16
Category : History
ISBN : 0742564614

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Brian Dolan's social and cultural history of the music business in relation to the history of the player piano is a critical chapter in the story of contemporary life. The player piano made the American music industry-and American music itself-modern. For years, Tin Pan Alley composers and performers labored over scores for quick ditties destined for the vaudeville circuit or librettos destined for the Broadway stage. But, the introduction of the player piano in the early 1900s, transformed Tin Pan Alley's guild of composers, performers, and theater owners into a music industry. The player piano, with its perforated music rolls that told the pianos what key to strike, changed musical performance because it made a musical piece standard, repeatable, and easy rather than something laboriously learned. It also created a national audience because the music that was played in New Orleans or Kansas City could also be played in New York or Missoula, as new music (ragtime) and dance (fox-trot) styles crisscrossed the continent along with the player piano's music rolls. By the 1920s, only automobile sales exceeded the amount generated by player pianos and their music rolls. Consigned today to the realm of collectors and technological arcane, the player piano was a moving force in American music and American life.

Author : Jim Futrell
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 26,12 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9780811729734

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This comprehensive guide profiles 17 major amusement parks in the Garden State. Complete information on rides and attractions is accompanied by dozens of vintage photographs and postcard scenes. Featured parks: Steel Pier, Atlantic City; Keansburg Amusement Park, Keansburg; Clementon Amusement Park, Clementon; Jenkinson's Boardwalk, Point Pleasant Beach; Casino Pier, Seaside Heights; Playland, Ocean City; Bowcraft Amusement Park, Scotch Plains; Land of Make Believe, Hope; Storybookland, Cardiff; Funtown Pier, Seaside Park; Wild West City, Netcong; Gillian's Wonderland Pier, Ocean City; Morey's Piers, Wildwood; Six Flags Great Adventure, Jackson; Fantasy Island, Beach Haven; Blackbeards Cave, Bayville.

Author : Kathryn W. Burke
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 15,27 MB
Release : 2008-05-19
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1439635684

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Playland offers an inviting look at the historic amusement park on the shore of the Long Island Sound in Rye. This book recalls the early days and the later years of Playland, a national historic landmark and Americas only publicly owned amusement park. Opened in 1928 as part of the newly developed Westchester County Park System, Playland originally drew crowds that arrived via automobile, bus, and steamship for the circus acts, sideshows, and rides, such as the Swooper, an oval roller coaster, and the Derby Racer, one of only two left in the United States. An all-purpose resort, the park included a beach, bathhouse, pool, and casino with restaurants and games. Today the park draws even larger crowdsnearly a million people each seasonthat come for the Dragon Coaster and other rides, Kiddyland, the indoor ice rink, the pool, the beach, and the boardwalk.

Author : Dale Samuelson
Publisher : Motorbooks International
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 49,14 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Amusement parks
ISBN : 0760309817

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A photographic retrospective covers more than 100 years of images from the history of the American amusement park.