Automats, Taxi Dances, and Vaudeville : Excavating Manhattan's Lost Places of Leisure /

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Freeland, David
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : New York University Press, 2009.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Theaters > New York (State) > New York > History.
Historic buildings > New York (State) > New York.
New York (N.Y.) > Social life and customs.
New York (N.Y.) > Buildings, structures, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Chinatown, Chatham Square, and the Bowery. A round for the old Atlantic (The Atlantic Garden) ; Chinatown Theater (the 1893 Chinese Theater)
  • Union Square and the East Village. A roof with a view (American Mutoscope Studio) ; Caretakers of Second Avenue (Hebrew Actors' Union)
  • The Tenderloin. If you can make 'em cry (Tin Pan Alley) ; Tenderloin winners and losers (Shang Draper's Gambling House)
  • Harlem. A theater of our own (The Lincoln Theater) ; Rise and fall of the original Swing Street (West 133rd Street)
  • Times Square. The strike invisible (Horn & Hardart's original New York Automat) ; Last dance at the Orpheum (The Orpheum Dance Palace) ; Nights of gladness (Billy Rose's Diamond Horseshoe).

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