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Automats, taxi dances, and vaudeville : excavating Manhattan's lost places of leisure
- Title
- Automats, taxi dances, and vaudeville : excavating Manhattan's lost places of leisure / David Freeland.
- Author
- Freeland, David.
- Publication
- New York : New York University Press, c2009.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Lower East Side Heritage Collection (Seward Park Branch)
- Description
- xxviii, 269 p. : ill., maps; 23 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- 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).
- Call Number
- IRH 09-8506
- ISBN
- 081472762X (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780814727638 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0814727638 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9780814727621 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2009007884
- OCLC
- 276816676
- Author
- Freeland, David.
- Title
- Automats, taxi dances, and vaudeville : excavating Manhattan's lost places of leisure / David Freeland.
- Imprint
- New York : New York University Press, c2009.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Lower East Side Heritage Collection (Seward Park Branch)
- Research Call Number
- IRH 09-8506