TY  - BOOK
AU  - Register,Woody
TI  - The kid of Coney Island: Fred Thompson and the rise of American amusements  
SN  - 0195144937
AV  - GV1852.2.T56 R44 2001
U1  - 338.7/6179106/8092B 21
PY  - 2001///
CY  - Oxford, New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Thompson, Fred,
KW  - Amusement park owners
KW  - New York (State)
KW  - New York
KW  - Biography
N1  - American Window; Includes bibliographical references (p. 323-387) and index; Machine generated contents note: ONE Uncle Sam's a Boy at Play 3 -- TWO The Moon for a Plaything 23 -- Fred Thompson's Apprenticeship in Play, 1873-1901 -- THREE Life Is Only a Merry-Go-Round 85 -- Luna Park, 1903-13 -- FOUR NewYork's Gigantic Toy 145 -- The Hippodrome, 1902-6 -- FIVE Millionaires and Monsters 193 -- Melodramas of Consumption, 1906-12 -- six We're Playing Games 249 -- The Toylands of Peter Pan Culture, 1912-30 -- SEVEN A Kindergarten Preacher in Toys 299 -- NOTES 323 -- INDEX 389
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