- Description
- 1 online resource (xxviii, 269 p.) : ill., maps.
- Uniform Title
- Automats, taxi dances, and vaudeville (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Automats, taxi dances, and vaudeville (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- 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).
- LCCN
- 2009007884
- OCLC
- ssj0000107973
- Author
Freeland, David.
- Title
Automats, taxi dances, and vaudeville [electronic resource] : excavating Manhattan's lost places of leisure / David Freeland.
- Imprint
New York : New York University Press, c2009.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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