The playful crowd : pleasure places in the twentieth century

The playful crowd : pleasure places in the twentieth century / Gary S. Cross & John K. Walton.

During the first part of the twentieth century thousands of working class New Yorkers flocked to Coney Island in search of a release from their workaday lives and the values of bourgeois society. On the other side of the Atlantic, British workers headed off to the beach resort of Blackpool for enter...

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Main Authors: Cross, Gary S. (Author), Walton, John K. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2005]
Subjects:
1900-1999
Amusement parks > Social aspects > United States > History > 20th century.
Amusement parks > Social aspects > England > History > 20th century.
PERFORMING ARTS > Business Aspects.
TRAVEL > Amusement & Theme Parks.
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
Amusement parks > Social aspects
Arbeidersklasse.
Vrije tijd.
Pretparken.
England
United States
History
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