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Author:

Freeland, David.

Title:

Automats, taxi dances, and vaudeville : excavating Manhattan's lost places of leisure / David Freeland.

Publisher:

New York University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2009

Description:

xxviii, 269 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Historic buildings--New York.--New York.
New York (N.Y.)--Buildings, structures, etc.
New York (N.Y.)--Social life and customs.
Theaters--New York--New York--History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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).

ISBN:

0814727638 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780814727638 (pbk. : alk. paper)
081472762X (cloth : alk. paper)
9780814727621 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)276816676

LCCN:

2009007884

Locations:

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)