Lost Amusement Parks Of Southern California The Postwar Years

Author : Lisa Hallett Taylor
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781467106917

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Lost Amusement Parks of Southern California: The Postwar Years by Lisa Hallett Taylor Pdf

After World War II, veterans and their growing families flocked to sunny Southern California for jobs in the aerospace and defense industries. Capitalizing on the baby boom and expanding suburbs, amusement parks sprang up to entertain residents and their visiting relatives. The crown jewel was Disneyland, which focused on themed sections and changed amusement parks forever. Other parks followed, transforming Southern California into one of the world's top vacation destinations. Parks like Lion Country Safari, Corriganville, and Marineland--along with many kiddie lands and animal, water, and theme parks--came and went in the postwar decades. Some were planned but never developed, while existing popular parks like Disneyland and Universal Studios periodically close rides only to substitute them with attractions considered more crowd-pleasing.

Author : J. Mark Souther
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2006-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807131930

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New Orleans on Parade by J. Mark Souther Pdf

New Orleans on Parade tells the story of the Big Easy in the twentieth century. In this urban biography, J. Mark Souther explores the Crescent City's architecture, music, food and alcohol, folklore and spiritualism, Mardi Gras festivities, and illicit sex commerce in revealing how New Orleans became a city that parades itself to visitors and residents alike. Stagnant between the Civil War and World War II -- a period of great expansion nationally -- New Orleans unintentionally preserved its distinctive physical appearance and culture. Though business, civic, and government leaders tried to pursue conventional modernization in the 1940s, competition from other Sunbelt cities as well as a national economic shift from production to consumption gradually led them to seize on tourism as the growth engine for future prosperity, giving rise to a veritable gumbo of sensory attractions. A trend in historic preservation and the influence of outsiders helped fan this newfound identity, and the city's residents learned to embrace rather than disdain their past. A growing reliance on the tourist trade fundamentally affected social relations in New Orleans. African Americans were cast as actors who shaped the culture that made tourism possible while at the same time they were exploited by the local power structure. As black leaders' influence increased, the white elite attempted to keep its traditions -- including racial inequality -- intact, and race and class issues often lay at the heart of controversies over progress. Once the most tolerant diverse city in the South and the nation, New Orleans came to lag behind the rest of the country in pursuing racial equity. Souther traces the ascendancy of tourism in New Orleans through the final decades of the twentieth century and beyond, examining the 1984 World's Fair, the collapse of Louisiana's oil industry in the eighties, and the devastating blow dealt by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Narrated in a lively style and resting on a bedrock of research, New Orleans on Parade is a landmark book that allows readers to fully understand the image-making of the Big Easy.

Author : Daniel J. Walkowitz
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350078338

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A Cultural History of Work in the Modern Age by Daniel J. Walkowitz Pdf

Winner of the 2020 PROSE Award for Multivolume Reference/Humanities Changes in production and consumption fundamentally transformed the culture of work in the industrial world during the century after World War I. In the aftermath of the war, the drive to create new markets and rationalize work management engaged new strategies of advertising and scientific management, deploying new workforces increasingly tied to consumption rather than production. These changes affected both the culture of the workplace and the home, as the gendered family economy of the modern worker struggled with the vagaries of a changing gendered labour market and the inequalities that accompanied them. This volume draws on illustrative cases to highlight the uneven development of the modern culture of work over the course of the long 20th century. A Cultural History of Work in the Modern Age presents an overview of the period with essays on economies, representations of work, workplaces, work cultures, technology, mobility, society, politics and leisure.

Author : David Beesley
Publisher : University of Nevada Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2008-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780874176346

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Crow's Range by David Beesley Pdf

John Muir called it the "Range of Light, the most divinely beautiful of all the mountain chains I’ve ever seen." The Sierra Nevada—a single unbroken mountain range stretching north to south over four hundred miles, best understood as a single ecosystem but embracing a number of environmental communities—has been the site of human activity for millennia. From the efforts of ancient Native Americans to encourage game animals by burning brush to create meadows to the burgeoning resort and residential development of the present, the Sierra has endured, and often suffered from, the efforts of humans to exploit its bountiful resources for their own benefit. Historian David Beesley examines the history of the Sierra Nevada from earliest times, beginning with a comprehensive discussion of the geologic development of the range and its various ecological communities. Using a wide range of sources, including the records of explorers and early settlers, scientific and government documents, and newspaper reports, Beesley offers a lively and informed account of the history, environmental challenges, and political controversies that lie behind the breathtaking scenery of the Sierra. Among the highlights are discussions of the impact of the Gold Rush and later mining efforts, as well as the supporting industries that mining spawned, including logging, grazing, water-resource development, market hunting, urbanization, and transportation; the politics and emotions surrounding the establishment of Yosemite and other state and national parks; the transformation of the Hetch Hetchy into a reservoir and the desertification of the once-lush Owens Valley; the roles of the Forest Service, Park Service, and other regulatory agencies; the consequences of the fateful commitment to wildfire suppression in Sierran forests; and the ever-growing impact of tourism and recreational use. Through Beesley’s wide-ranging discussion, John Muir’s "divinely beautiful" range is revealed in all its natural and economic complexity, a place that at the beginning of the twenty-first century is in grave danger of being loved to death. Available in hardcover and paperback.

Author : Eric Avila
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2006-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520248113

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Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight by Eric Avila Pdf

"In Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight, Eric Avila offers a unique argument about the restructuring of urban space in the two decades following World War II and the role played by new suburban spaces in dramatically transforming the political culture of the United States. Avila's work helps us see how and why the postwar suburb produced the political culture of 'balanced budget conservatism' that is now the dominant force in politics, how the eclipse of the New Deal since the 1970s represents not only a change of views but also an alteration of spaces."—George Lipsitz, author of The Possessive Investment in Whiteness

Author : Stephen J. Faessel
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 0738547433

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Anaheim 1940-2007 by Stephen J. Faessel Pdf

What started as a sleepy agricultural area became a mecca of business and entertainment when Disneyland sprung up from the orange groves of Anaheim, California, in 1955, which soon led to it becoming one of the nation's fastest growing cities. Original.

Author : Richard Harris
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 0738559474

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Early Amusement Parks of Orange County by Richard Harris Pdf

The Orange County coast had its Joy Zone and its Fun Zone in the early decades of the 20th century. Knott's Berry Farm sprouted from a simple berry stand in Buena Park. The spot that would become Walt Disney's theme-park empire began as a citrus grove in Anaheim. Before long, Orange County was recognized as the nurturing ground for the growing amusement park industry. This book concerns the early history of such parks in the county east and south of Los Angeles, before high-tech digitization, when custom cars, enormous alligators, stunt planes, dolphin leaps, and movie stars' wax likenesses thrilled patrons. Some amusement parks have come and gone over a century of development, and some are still here, changing with the times to create new adventure and excitement for park goers.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1947
Category : Music
ISBN : IOWA:31858028446924

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The Billboard by Anonim Pdf

Author : Elsa Devienne
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : History
ISBN : 9780197539750

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Sand Rush by Elsa Devienne Pdf

An original approach to the iconic landscape of California--the beaches of Los Angeles--this book recovers untold stories of presidential jaunts, wild spring break celebrations, underground gay beaches, and engineering feats that enlarged the shores overnight. From the creation of a mini-Venice on the LA sands in 1905 to Baywatch's David Hasselhoff and Pamela Anderson captivating billions of television viewers worldwide in the 1990s, the book offers a comprehensive look at a landscape that is at once natural and artificial, but now under threat from climate change and rising sea levels.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Sports
ISBN : CORNELL:31924101522526

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Sports in America by Anonim Pdf

Author : Theo d' Haen,Theo d'. Haen,Johannes Willem Bertens
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9051832303

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History and Post-war Writing by Theo d' Haen,Theo d'. Haen,Johannes Willem Bertens Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1947-12
Category : Music
ISBN : UOM:39015006975141

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Billboard Music Week by Anonim Pdf

Author : Monica E. Jovanovich,Melissa Renn
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-18
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9781501343742

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Corporate Patronage of Art and Architecture in the United States, Late 19th Century to the Present by Monica E. Jovanovich,Melissa Renn Pdf

This interdisciplinary collection of case studies rethinks corporate patronage in the United States and reveals the central role corporations have played in shaping American culture. This volume offers new methodologies and models for the subject of corporate patronage, and contains an extensive bibliography on corporate patronage, art collections and exhibitions, sponsorship, and philanthropy in the United States. The case studies herein go beyond the usual focus on corporate sponsorship and collecting to explore the complex organizational networks and motivations behind corporate commissions. Featuring chapters on Margaret Bourke-White, Julie Mehretu, Maxfield Parrish, Pablo Picasso, Diego Rivera, Eugene Savage, Millard Sheets, and Kehinde Wiley, as well as studies on Andrew Carnegie, Andrew Mellon, John D. Rockefeller Sr. and Jr., and Dorothy Shaver, and companies such as Herman Miller and Lord and Taylor, this volume looks at a wide array of works, ranging from sculpture, photography, mosaics, and murals to advertisements, department store displays, sportswear, medical schools, and public libraries.

Author : Lauren Rabinovitz
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2012-07-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780231527217

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Electric Dreamland by Lauren Rabinovitz Pdf

Amusement parks were the playgrounds of the working class in the early twentieth century, combining numerous, mechanically-based spectacles into one unique, modern cultural phenomenon. Lauren Rabinovitz describes the urban modernity engendered by these parks and their media, encouraging ordinary individuals to sense, interpret, and embody a burgeoning national identity. As industrialization, urbanization, and immigration upended society, amusement parks tempered the shocks of racial, ethnic, and cultural conflict while shrinking the distinctions between gender and class. Following the rise of American parks from 1896 to 1918, Rabinovitz seizes on a simultaneous increase in cinema and spectacle audiences and connects both to the success of leisure activities in stabilizing society. Critics of the time often condemned parks and movies for inciting moral decline, yet in fact they fostered women's independence, racial uplift, and assimilation. The rhythmic, mechanical movements of spectacle also conditioned audiences to process multiple stimuli. Featuring illustrations from private collections and accounts from unaccessed archives, Electric Dreamland joins film and historical analyses in a rare portrait of mass entertainment and the modern eye.

Author : United States. Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1424 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Law
ISBN : UCR:31210025940022

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Congressional Record by United States. Congress Pdf