Playland
Playland

Author: Anthony Daly

Publisher:

Published: 2018-03

Total Pages: 460

ISBN-13: 9781907324802

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Playland
Playland

Author: Kathryn W. Burke

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 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.

Playland
Playland

Author: John Gregory Dunne

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2012-05-02

Total Pages: 574

ISBN-13: 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.

Excelsior Amusement Park: Playland of the Twin Cities
Excelsior Amusement Park: Playland of the Twin Cities

Author: Greg Van Gompel

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 1467137936

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Minneapolis roared into the 1920s as a major metropolis, but it lacked the kind of outdoor amusement facilities common elsewhere across the country. In 1925, Fred W. Pearce introduced the Twin Cities to his "Picnic Wonderland." Crowds eagerly poured onto the shores of Lake Minnetonka by the trolley load. Luckily, Excelsior Park survived the Great Depression and World War II on the strength of its celebrity acts. Changes in the forms of transportation, combined with innovations in the outdoor entertainment industry such as Disneyland and an aging infrastructure, eventually forced the park to close its gates.

Amusement Parks of New York
Amusement Parks of New York

Author: Jim Futrell

Publisher: Stackpole Books

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9780811732628

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This comprehensive guide profiles 16 major amusement parks in the Empire State and offers information on smaller parks as well. Offers complete information on rides and attractions, a history of each park, and best times to go. Features vintage photographs and postcards scenes.

Little Knight Set 2
Little Knight Set 2

Author: Michèle Dufresne

Publisher:

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 16

ISBN-13: 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.

San Francisciana
San Francisciana

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1985

Total Pages: 76

ISBN-13:

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History of the various buildings known as the Cliff House, in photographs.

New York Recentered
New York Recentered

Author: Kara Murphy Schlichting

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2019-04-23

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 022661302X

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The history of New York City’s urban development often centers on titanic municipal figures like Robert Moses and on prominent inner Manhattan sites like Central Park. New York Recentered boldly shifts the focus to the city’s geographic edges—the coastlines and waterways—and to the small-time unelected locals who quietly shaped the modern city. Kara Murphy Schlichting details how the vernacular planning done by small businessmen and real estate operators, performed independently of large scale governmental efforts, refigured marginal locales like Flushing Meadows and the shores of Long Island Sound and the East River in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The result is a synthesis of planning history, environmental history, and urban history that recasts the story of New York as we know it.