Automats, Taxi Dances, and Vaudeville : : Excavating Manhattan’s Lost Places of Leisure / / David Freeland.
Winner of the Publication Award for Popular Culture and Entertainment for 2009 from the Metropolitan Chapter of the Victorian Society in AmericaNamed to Pop Matters list of the Best Books of 2009 (Non-fiction)From the lights that never go out on Broadway to its 24-hour subway system, New York City i...
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Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2009] ©2009 |
Year of Publication: | 2009 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource :; 24 black and white illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I. Chinatown, Chatham Square, and the Bowery
- 1 A Round for the Old Atlantic.
- 2 Chinatown Theater.
- Part II. Union Square and the East Village
- 3 A Roof with a View.
- 4 Caretakers of Second Avenue.
- Part III. The Tenderloin
- 5 If You Can Make ’Em Cry.
- 6 Tenderloin Winners and Losers.
- Part IV. Harlem
- 7 A Theater of Our Own.
- 8 Rise and Fall of the Original Swing Street.
- Part V. Times Square
- 9 The Strike Invisible.
- 10 Last Dance at the Orpheum.
- 11 Nights of Gladness. (Billy Rose’s Diamond Horseshoe)
- Epilogue
- A Note on Sources
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author