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Roller Coasters : Amusement Parks
Amusment park histories, guide books and information.
Ohio Amusement Parks in Vintage Postcards (PCH). Ohio played a central role in the development of the American amusement park industry. Only New York and Pennsylvania have had more amusement parks. This book, through rare postcards made available for the first time to the general public, will detail the evolution of this late-19th & early-20th century phenomenon. Chapters will include The Early Years (1895?1904); The Age of Rapid Expansion (1905?1908); The Age of Popularity (1919?1930); Depression and War (1931?1945); and The End of an Era (1946?1969). This book will appeal both to postcard and to amusement park enthusiasts.
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The American Amusement Park Author: Wendy Yegoiants, Dale Osborn Samuelson Publisher: Motorbooks International; (September 2001)
For more than a century, amusement parks from Brooklyn's Coney Island to Disneyland in Anaheim and today's chain parks like Six Flags have been among the most popular destinations for countless Americans in search of fun and thrills. This marvelous photographic retrospective distills more than 100 years of the sights, sounds, smells and vertigo-inducing thrills associated with the American amusement park. Nostalgic archival photography from private collections, period print advertisements and exclusive modern color photographs illustrate the stories behind thrill rides, arcades, architecture, park food, pavilion entertainment, fun houses, tunnels of love and much more. Special focus is given to the roller coaster, while sidebars highlight specific parks and rides whose influence on the development of amusement parks in general is undeniable.
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This guidebook to the most thrilling fantastic amusement parks in North America, covering more than 290 locations, delivers the goods - what to see, what to do, and when - or where to go for the rides of your life.
Check 'em out! Top Thrill Dragster: Get launched from 0 to 120 in 4 seconds on this brand-new coaster at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio. It's the tallest (420 feet) and fastest (120 mph) roller coaster with the longest drop (400 feet) in the world. Shrek 4-D: New at the Universal parks in Orlando and Hollywood, this attraction was filmed in all-new Ogrevision - can't you just hear, see, feel, and smell the fun? Celebration City: This brand-new nighttime theme park in Branson, Missouri, features a 95-foot tall Ferris wheel and the Ozark WildCat, a twisting wood coaster that reaches a speed of 44 mph and has a drop of 80-plus feet.
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Fred Thompson (1873-1919) was a pioneering entrepreneur who encouraged Americans, especially American men, to have fun and stop feeling guilty about it. He designed and built Luna Park, which in 1903 transformed Coney Island from an area so tawdry it was known as Sodom by the Sea into a respectable venue for middle-class recreation. He created the Hippodrome, the world's largest theater when it opened in 1905, and filled it with lavish spectacles at affordable ticket prices. He moved on to become the boy-wonder of Broadway producers, responsible for such popular hits as Brewster's Millions and Little Nemo. His financial acumen never equaled his showmanship (he lost control of both Luna Park and the Hippodrome to better businessmen), but he seems to have thoroughly enjoyed spending vast sums of money to make fantasy and luxury accessible to the masses. Woody Register, professor of American Studies at Sewanee, explores Thompson's life and career as a paradigm for the sea change in commercial culture that took place in the early years of the 20th century, when the Victorian emphasis on educational, elevating entertainment was challenged by a more hedonistic attitude that valued pleasure for its own sake. Gender theory and other currently trendy academic disciplines inform the author's point of view without detracting unduly from his well-written and well-paced narrative. Register could have eased up on the Peter Pan metaphors, but he convincingly links Thompson to present-day innovators who've made a bundle by refusing to grow up, such as director Steven Spielberg and the whiz kids who created the personal computer and Internet revolutions. This is a nice example of a scholarly work that reaches beyond its core audience to appeal to the general public. --Wendy Smith
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