The outdoor amusement industry
Subtitle: from earliest times to the present
By: William F. Mangels.
Edition: First edition
Publisher: Vantage Press
Published: 1952
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 206
Copyright date: 1952
Subjects: Amusement parks -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 204).
Table of contents: title: Contents; label: Outdoor Amusement Resorts
title: 3; label: Early American Amusement Parks
title: 17; label: Carnivals
title: 31; label: Coney Island
title: 37; label: Amusement Devices
title: 53; label: The Carrousel
title: 57; label: Merry-Go-Round Music
title: 71; label: The Roller Coaster
title: 81; label: Centrifugal Pleasure Railways
title: 99; label: Pleasure Wheels
title: 105; label: Water Amusement Rides
title: 119; label: Oscillating and Circle Swings
title: 127; label: Flat Rides
title: 133; label: Observation and Parachute Towers
title: 147; label: World’s Fairs
title: 153; label: Fun Houses and Illusion Rides
title: 163; label: Menageries
title: 171; label: Dance Halls
title: 177; label: Festive Lights
title: 181; label: Fireworks
title: 185; label: Miscellaneous Attractions
title: 191; label: Appendix
title: 203; title: Illustrations; label: Ferris Wheel - Chicago World's Fair, 1893
title: Frontispiece; label: Plan of the Parc Monceau Showing Location of the Attractions
title: 12; label: French Carrousel—1662
title: 58; label: Arc du Carrousel—Paris
title: 59; label: Carrousel Horses with Medieval Trappings
title: 59; label: Tilting at the Ring—Fourteenth Century
title: 60; label: Tilting at the Ring—Philadelphia Centennial Exposition, 1876
title: 60; label: Training Machines for Young Princes - 1770
title: 61; label: Early Carrousel Operated by Manpower
title: 64; label: Steam-operated American Carrousel - 1880
title: 64; label: Musical Instrument Played by a Moving Perforated Cardboard Strip
title: 72; label: Pegged Organ Cylinder
title: 72; label: Original Hurdy-Gurdy = Eighteenth Century
title: 73; label: Russian Ice Slides - 1650
title: 82; label: French Roller Coaster Known as Belleville Mountain - 1817
title: 84; label: French Racing Coaster at the Jardin Beaujon - 1817
title: 85; label: French Coaster Cars at Belleville - 1817
title: 86; label: Mauch Chunk Switchback Railway -1870
title: 87; title: Early American Coaster Plan - 1878; label: Thompson’s Original Switchback Railway - 1884
title: 89; label: Figure-Eight Roller Coaster - Chestnut Hill Park, Pa., 1890
title: 92; label: Modern High-Speed Coaster - Coney Island
title: 93; label: French Centrifugal Railway - 1845
title: 100; label: Advertisement in Street Railway Journal - 1900
title: 101; label: Flip-Flap Coaster - 1888
title: 102; label: Loop-the-Loop Coaster - 1901
title: 103; label: Russian Pleasure Wheels - 1803
title: 106; label: Swings at Mohammedan Festival - Alexandria, Egypt, 1790
title: 107; label: Graydon Wheel - 1894
title: 110; label: Riesenrad - The Prater, Vienna, 1897
title: 112; label: The Prater, Vienna, After World War II Bombing
title: 113; label: Early French Shoot-the-Chutes - Jaron Ruggieri, 1817
title: 120; label: Shoot-the-Chutes - 1897
title: 121; label: Turkish Swings - Sixteenth Century
title: 128; label: Mechanical Electric Race Course - Nice, France, 1889
title: 138; label: Controlled Parachute Jump - New York World’s Fair, 1939
title: 148; label: Controlled Parachute Jump - Gorki Park, Moscow, 1936
title: 149; label: Cross-Bow Shooting at a Target - Sixteenth Century
title: 192; label: Poster Targets - 1890
title: 194; label: Heron’s Eolipile - 150 B.C.
title: 195