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Chargement... Coney Island, Lost and Found (2002)par Charles Denson
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Inspires me to go to Coney Island tomorrow! ( ) Coney Island: Lost and Found is authored by historian Charles Denson, who serves as the Executive Director of the Coney Island History Project. (To visit that site: www.coneyislandhistory.org ) Denson grew up on Coney Island and is passionately in love with this corner of New York. His book combines a history of Coney Island from the time of its discovery by Dutch and English explorers in the mid-1600s with personal reminiscences of Coney from his childhood and adult life. With hundreds of archival and modern photographs and illustrations, as well as a wonderfully informative text, Coney Island: Lost and Found is a great picture book, an intimate memoir, and an intelligent account of all things Coney -- from the rise and fall of the great amusement parks (Dreamland, Luna Park, and Steeplechase), to the decay of Coney, to its sputtering resurgence in the mid-1980s and 90s. Denson particularly focuses on Coney Island from the 1950s to 2000, so this isn’t a definitive history of the birth and glory days of the amusement parks. But I’d highly recommend to anyone looking to take a virtual or actual trip to Coney before it is transformed yet again as Mayor Bloomberg and developer Joe Sitt design and build their version of a Coney Island for the 21st Century. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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Growing up on Coney Island in the 50s and 60s, Charles Denson experienced legendary amusements and attractions like the Cyclone and Thunderbolt roller coasters, the Parachute Jump, and Steeplechase Park. In CONEY ISLAND: LOST AND FOUND, 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 is a heartfelt chronicle that stretches from colonial times to the island's heyday in the early 20th century and through its subsequent decline and revival, culminating in the 2001 opening of the new ballpark that brought baseball back to Brooklyn. * Features 300 color and black-and-white photographs, including many never-before-published images. * Detailed hand-drawn maps trace a century of amusement park history. * Includes posters, programs, and tickets from past and present. Reviews "Evocative." --Newark Star-Ledger Recommended in "New York Bookshelf, Nonfiction" --New York Times "Charles Denson traces CONEY ISLAND . . . in all its glory." --Birmingham News "[A] crisply researched and tenderly rendered love letter." --St. Petersburg Times "Many delightful details assembled in the thoughtful and handsome volume." --San Francisco Chronicle "Denson's CONEY ISLAND is a well-researched, passionate account of his neighborhood's decline and rebirth is an invaluable addition . . . to American history." --New York's City Limits Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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