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Download or read book Action Park written by Andy Mulvihill and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-06-30 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Citizen Kane does Adventureland." —The Washington Post The outlandish, hilarious, terrifying, and almost impossible-to-believe story of the legendary, dangerous amusement park where millions were entertained and almost as many bruises were sustained, told through the eyes of the founder's son. Often called "Accident Park," "Class Action Park," or "Traction Park," Action Park was an American icon. Entertaining more than a million people a year in the 1980s, the New Jersey-based amusement playland placed no limits on danger or fun, a monument to the anything-goes spirit of the era that left guests in control of their own adventures--sometimes with tragic results. Though it closed its doors in 1996 after nearly twenty years, it has remained a subject of constant fascination ever since, an establishment completely anathema to our modern culture of rules and safety. Action Park is the first-ever unvarnished look at the history of this DIY Disneyland, as seen through the eyes of Andy Mulvihill, the son of the park's idiosyncratic founder, Gene Mulvihill. From his early days testing precarious rides to working his way up to chief lifeguard of the infamous Wave Pool to later helping run the whole park, Andy's story is equal parts hilarious and moving, chronicling the life and death of a uniquely American attraction, a wet and wild 1980s adolescence, and a son's struggle to understand his father's quixotic quest to become the Walt Disney of New Jersey. Packing in all of the excitement of a day at Action Park, this is destined to be one of the most unforgettable memoirs of the year.
Book Synopsis Literature, Amusement, and Technology in the Great Depression by : William Solomon
Download or read book Literature, Amusement, and Technology in the Great Depression written by William Solomon and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-10 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literature, Amusement and Technology examines the exchange between literature and recreational practices in 1930s America. William Solomon argues that autobiographical writers like Edward Dahlberg and Henry Miller took aesthetic inspiration from urban manifestations of the carnival spirit: Coney Island amusement parks, burlesque, vaudeville, and the dime museum display of human oddities. More broadly, he demonstrates that the literary projects of the period pivoted around images of grotesquely disfigured bodies which appeared as part of this recreational culture.
Download or read book Legends written by Tim O'Brien and published by Casa Flamingo Literary Arts. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: OBriens multi-book series pays homage to the greatest of the great--those who made the amusement parks, theme parks, and waterparks what they are today.
Book Synopsis The Whore's Story by : Bradford K. Mudge
Download or read book The Whore's Story written by Bradford K. Mudge and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2000-06-08 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fresh and persuasively argued book examines the origins of pornography in Britain and presents a comprehensive overview of women's role in the evolution of obscene fiction. Carefully monitoring the complex interconnections between three related debates--that over the masquerade, that over the novel, and that over prostitution--Mudge contextualizes the growing literary need to separate good fiction from bad and argues that that process was of crucial importance to the emergence of a new, middle-class state. Looking closely at sermons, medical manuals, periodical essays, and political tracts as well as poetry, novels, and literary criticism, The Whore's Story tracks the shifting politics of pleasure in eighteenth-century Britain and charts the rise of modern, pornographic sensibilities.
Book Synopsis With Amusement for All by : LeRoy Ashby
Download or read book With Amusement for All written by LeRoy Ashby and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2006-05-12 with total page 713 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With Amusement for All contextualizes what Americans have done for fun since 1830, showing the reciprocal nature of the relationships among social, political, economic, and cultural forces and the ways in which the entertainment world has reflected, changed, or reinforced the values of American society.
Book Synopsis The mother's thorough resource-book by : Mother
Download or read book The mother's thorough resource-book written by Mother and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Book-worm written by and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Cassell's book of in-door amusements, card games and fireside fun by : Cassell, ltd
Download or read book Cassell's book of in-door amusements, card games and fireside fun written by Cassell, ltd and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Closed for the Season by : Mary Downing Hahn
Download or read book Closed for the Season written by Mary Downing Hahn and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2010-09-06 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Edgar Award for Best Juvenile Mystery Two friends set out to solve the years-old mystery of a murder, testing their friendship and placing them in danger, in this creepy thriller by suspense master Mary Downing Hahn. A pair of thirteen-year-old boys investigate the unsolved theft and murder that took place in the old house one boy's family has just moved into. Their quest takes them to the highest and lowest levels of society in their small Maryland town, and eventually to a dark and derelict amusement park where someone will go to any length to shut down their investigation for good. Themes of adjusting to a new town, navigating complex friendships, and resisting a bully are deftly explored in this eerie page-turner.
Book Synopsis Monthly Literary Recreations, Or, Magazine of General Information and Amusement by :
Download or read book Monthly Literary Recreations, Or, Magazine of General Information and Amusement written by and published by . This book was released on 1807 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Artcade written by Tim Nicholls and published by Bitmap Books Limited. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gamers who cut their teeth in the arcades will love this trip down memory lane. Artcade is a unique collection of coin-op cabinet marquees, some dating back 40 years to the dawn of video gaming. Originally acquired by Tim Nicholls from a Hollywood props company, this archive of marquees - many of which had suffered damage over time - have now been scanned and digitally restored to their former glory. The full collection of classic arcade cabinet artwork is presented here for the first time in this stunning landscape hardback book, and accompanied by interviews with artists Larry Day and the late Python Anghelo. Relive your mis-spent youth with artwork from dozens of coin-ops including Asteroid, Battlezone, Street Fighter II, Out Run, Moon Patrol, Gyruss, Q*Bert, Bubble Bobble and many more. Each marquee takes up a full double-page spread in the book, and is faithfully recreated using beautiful lithographic printing on the highest quality paper. Tim has spent over a thousand hours assembling the high-resolution scans, restoring the images in Photoshop and color-correcting them back to their vibrant, as-new appearance. The results of all that hard work are now available as a lasting record of the amazing artwork that adorned the arcades during the golden era of coin-op video gaming.
Book Synopsis Selected Pieces of Early Popular Poetry by : Edward Vernon Utterson
Download or read book Selected Pieces of Early Popular Poetry written by Edward Vernon Utterson and published by . This book was released on 1817 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Select Pieces of Early Popular Poetry by : Edward Vernon Utterson
Download or read book Select Pieces of Early Popular Poetry written by Edward Vernon Utterson and published by . This book was released on 1817 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Treatise on the Progress of Literature and Its Effects on Society, Including a Sketch of the Progress of English and Scottish Literature by : Robert Thomson
Download or read book Treatise on the Progress of Literature and Its Effects on Society, Including a Sketch of the Progress of English and Scottish Literature written by Robert Thomson and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Select pieces of early popular poetry: republished principally from early printed copies by : Edward Vernon Utterson
Download or read book Select pieces of early popular poetry: republished principally from early printed copies written by Edward Vernon Utterson and published by . This book was released on 1817 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Notes and Queries: A Medium of Inter-Communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, Etc by :
Download or read book Notes and Queries: A Medium of Inter-Communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, Etc written by and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A History of Latin Literature from Ennius to Boethius by : George Augustus Simcox
Download or read book A History of Latin Literature from Ennius to Boethius written by George Augustus Simcox and published by Ardent Media. This book was released on 1971 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
