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" Automats, taxi dances, and vaudeville : "
David Freeland
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BL
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701045
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b523234
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| Main Entry
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Freeland, David
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Automats, taxi dances, and vaudeville : : excavating Manhattan's lost places of leisure /\ David Freeland
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New York :: New York University Press,, [2009]
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, ©2009
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xxviii, 269 pages :: illustrations, maps ;; 23 cm
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081472762X
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: 0814727638
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: 9780814727621
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: 9780814727638
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-255) and index
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| Contents
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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 Tenderloinches 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 and Hardart's original New York Automat) ; Last dance at the Orpheum (The Orpheum Dance Palace) ; Nights of gladness (Billy Rose's Diamond Horseshoe)
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Historic buildings-- New York (State)-- New York
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Theaters-- New York (State)-- New York-- History
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New York (N.Y.), Buildings, structures, etc
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New York (N.Y.), Social life and customs
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974.7/104
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F128.7.F74 2009
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