Becoming America S Playground

Author : Larry D. Gragg
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806165851

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Becoming America's Playground by Larry D. Gragg Pdf

In 1950 Las Vegas saw a million tourists. In 1960 it attracted ten million. The city entered the fifties as a regional destination where prosperous postwar Americans could enjoy vices largely forbidden elsewhere, and it emerged in the sixties as a national hotspot, the glitzy resort city that lights up the American West today. Becoming America’s Playground chronicles the vice and the toil that gave Las Vegas its worldwide reputation in those transformative years. Las Vegas’s rise was no happy accident. After World War II, vacationing Americans traveled the country in record numbers, making tourism a top industry in such states as California and Florida. The Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce saw its chance and developed a plan to capitalize on the town’s burgeoning reputation for leisure. Las Vegas pinned its hopes for the future on Americans’ need for escape. Transforming a vice city financed largely by the mob into a family vacation spot was not easy. Hotel and casino publicists closely monitored media representations of the city and took every opportunity to stage images of good, clean fun for the public—posing even the atomic bomb tests conducted just miles away as an attraction. The racism and sexism common in the rest of the nation in the era prevailed in Las Vegas too. The wild success of Frank Sinatra’s Rat Pack performances at the Sands Hotel in 1960 demonstrated the city’s slow progress toward equality. Women couldn’t work as dealers in Las Vegas until the 1970s, yet they found more opportunities for well-paying jobs there than many American women could find elsewhere. Gragg shows how a place like the Las Vegas Strip—with its glitz and vast wealth and its wildly public consumption of vice—rose to prominence in the 1950s, a decade of Cold War anxiety and civil rights conflict. Becoming America’s Playground brings this pivotal decade in Las Vegas into sharp focus for the first time.

Author : Susan G. Solomon
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1584655178

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American Playgrounds by Susan G. Solomon Pdf

A compelling history, a manifesto, and a manual for change.

Author : Everett Bird Mero
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1908
Category : Playgrounds
ISBN : NYPL:33433066586409

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American Playgrounds by Everett Bird Mero Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1923
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UIUC:30112041513877

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The Appian Way of America by Anonim Pdf

Author : Kurt Philip Behm
Publisher : Author House
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2009-02-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781468535563

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The Death of the Playground by Kurt Philip Behm Pdf

The Death Of The Playground talks about the tragic loss of 'Free-Play' in America. Our Public Playgrounds were the places where it all happened, where developing boys could learn together to, : First sit and watch and learn from those older : Truly become an important part of a group and fit in : Make up their own games and improvise : That to have friends you must first be a friend : Handle disappointment and that life isn't always fair : Realize that all great things take time : To become part of something bigger than just themselves THIS ONE WAS MOST IMPORTANT ! On the Playground, they did all of this without DIRECT Parent or Adult supervision. They made up their own rules of play, picked their own games, decided for themselves what was fair, and learned to live with the consequences. All of this doesn't mean Parents weren't involved; they were. They just weren't over-involved! Kids raised with their parents doing everything for them, then 'grow up' and want their government to do the same thing. I think we all know where that road leads. America's Corporations desperately need the developing titans, like the ones that fought and won two World Wars, created the powerful multi-national corporations, and wrote the great books of the 20th century. The chain connecting boyhood to manhood is now broken. Let me take you back to find the missing link. Revisit with me the Playground of my childhood, and share with me the pure joy and magic of my 8 years of 'Free-Play.' It's not too late to recapture that magic for our children, but we have to act and we have to act soon. Kurt Philip Behm Website: http://www.authorhouse.com/Bookstore/ItemDetail.aspx?bookid=54309 Available: Amazon, B&N, Borders, Most Independents, Author House

Author : Paul J Vanderwood
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2010-04-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822391661

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Satan's Playground by Paul J Vanderwood Pdf

Satan’s Playground chronicles the rise and fall of the tumultuous and lucrative gambling industry that developed just south of the U.S.-Mexico border in the early twentieth century. As prohibitions against liquor, horse racing, gambling, and prostitution swept the United States, the vice industry flourished in and around Tijuana, to the extent that reformers came to call the town “Satan’s Playground,” unintentionally increasing its licentious allure. The area was dominated by Agua Caliente, a large, elegant gaming resort opened by four entrepreneurial Border Barons (three Americans and one Mexican) in 1928. Diplomats, royalty, film stars, sports celebrities, politicians, patricians, and nouveau-riche capitalists flocked to Agua Caliente’s luxurious complex of casinos, hotels, cabarets, and sports extravaganzas, and to its world-renowned thoroughbred racetrack. Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Louis B. Mayer, the Marx Brothers, Bing Crosby, Charlie Chaplin, Gloria Swanson, and the boxer Jack Dempsey were among the regular visitors. So were mobsters such as Bugsy Siegel, who later cited Agua Caliente as his inspiration for building the first such resort on what became the Las Vegas Strip. Less than a year after Agua Caliente opened, gangsters held up its money-car in transit to a bank in San Diego, killing the courier and a guard and stealing the company money pouch. Paul J. Vanderwood weaves the story of this heist gone wrong, the search for the killers, and their sensational trial into the overall history of the often-chaotic development of Agua Caliente, Tijuana, and Southern California. Drawing on newspaper accounts, police files, court records, personal memoirs, oral histories, and “true detective” magazines, he presents a fascinating portrait of vice and society in the Jazz Age, and he makes a significant contribution to the history of the U.S.-Mexico border.

Author : Susan G. Solomon
Publisher : University Press of New England
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-04
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781611686111

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The Science of Play by Susan G. Solomon Pdf

Poor design and wasted funding characterize today's American playgrounds. A range of factors--including a litigious culture, overzealous safety guidelines, and an ethos of risk aversion--have created uniform and unimaginative playgrounds. These spaces fail to nurture the development of children or promote playgrounds as an active component in enlivening community space. Solomon's book demonstrates how to alter the status quo by allying data with design. Recent information from the behavioral sciences indicates that kids need to take risks; experience failure but also have a chance to succeed and master difficult tasks; learn to plan and solve problems; exercise self-control; and develop friendships. Solomon illustrates how architects and landscape architects (most of whom work in Europe and Japan) have already addressed these needs with strong, successful playground designs. These innovative spaces, many of which are more multifunctional and cost effective than traditional playgrounds, are both sustainable and welcoming. Having become vibrant hubs within their neighborhoods, these play sites are models for anyone designing or commissioning an urban area for children and their families. The Science of Play, a clarion call to use playground design to deepen the American commitment to public space, will interest architects, landscape architects, urban policy makers, city managers, local politicians, and parents.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1118 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1920
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : UOM:39015047766566

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Civic Comment by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Playgrounds
ISBN : MINN:31951D02591361L

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Handbook for Public Playground Safety by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 960 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105015160349

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Dress & Vanity Fair by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 858 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Health
ISBN : UOM:39015039352649

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Journal of Health, Physical Education, Recreation by Anonim Pdf

Author : Joe L. Frost,Barry L. Klein
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0205065880

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Children's Play and Playgrounds by Joe L. Frost,Barry L. Klein Pdf

Author : Jennifer Saginor
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2009-03-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780061749537

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Playground by Jennifer Saginor Pdf

In the vein of Running with Scissors, Playground is the glitzy, glamorous, and surreal true story of a young girl who grew up inside the Playboy Mansion and never learned where the party stopped and the real world began. You are six years old. Every day after school your father takes you to a sprawling castle filled with exotic animals, bowls of candy, and half-naked women catering to your every need. You have your own room. You have new friends. You have an uncle Hef who's always there for you. Welcome to the world of Playground, the true story Jennifer Saginor who grew up inside the Playboy Mansion. By the time she was fourteen, she'd done countless drugs, had a secret affair with Hef's girlfriend, and was already losing her grip on reality. Schoolwork, family, and "ordinary people" had no meaning behind the iron gates of the Mansion, where celebrities frolicked, pool parties abounded, and her own father—Hugh Hefner's personal physician and best friend, the man nicknamed "Dr. Feel Good"—typically held court. Every day was a party, every night was an adventure, and through it all was a young girl falling faster and faster down the rabbit hole—trying desperately hard not to get lost.

Author : Arthur Hastings Grant,Harold Sinley Buttenheim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1090 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1953-07
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : UOM:39015016790910

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The American City by Arthur Hastings Grant,Harold Sinley Buttenheim Pdf

Author : Gregory Orfalea,Sharif Elmusa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Poetry
ISBN : UOM:39015016866751

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Grape Leaves by Gregory Orfalea,Sharif Elmusa Pdf

Arab-American poetry is an especially rich, people-involved, passionate literature that has been spawned, at least until recently, in isolation from the American mainstream. This anthology, reflects the current renaissance in the literature of what may be the latest ethnic community to assert itself. Twenty poets are represented in this collection, fifteen of them living, five of them women. They start with Ameen Rihani and Kahlil Gibran and include celebrated contemporaries who write in Arabic or English or both.