The playful crowd : pleasure places in the twentieth century / Gary S. Cross & John K. Walton.

During the first part of the twentieth century thousands of working class New Yorkers flocked to Coney Island in search of a release from their workaday lives and the values of bourgeois society. On the other side of the Atlantic, British workers headed off to the beach resort of Blackpool for enter...

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Main Authors: Cross, Gary S. (Author), Walton, John K. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2005]
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