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

Catalog Data

Author:
Freeland, David  Search this
Physical description:
xxviii, 269 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
New York (State)
New York
New York (N.Y.)
Date:
2009
C2009
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)
Topic:
Historic buildings  Search this
Theaters--History  Search this
Buildings, structures, etc  Search this
Social life and customs  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_933173