An edition of The outdoor amusement industry: From Earliest Times to the Present
(1952)
The outdoor amusement industry
from earliest times to the present
First edition
by William F. Mangels
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A chronicle of the history of the amusement park attraction and roller coaster industry from early days through the 1950s.
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Amusement parks, History, Amusement Park, amusement park history, Roller coasters, roller coaster history, amusement attractions, amusement device, Theme parks & funfairs, TRAVEL / Amusement & Theme Parks, Amusement & Theme Parks, fairground, Fairground organs, band organ, band organs, Russian Ice Slide, carousel industry, carousel, carousels, carousel history, carousel building, Menageries, Ferris Wheel, First Ferris Wheel, World's FairPeople
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The outdoor amusement industry: from earliest times to the present
1952, Vantage Press
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Table of Contents
Contents
Outdoor Amusement Resorts. 3
Early American Amusement Parks. 17
Carnivals. 31
Coney Island. 37
Amusement Devices. 53
The Carrousel. 57
Merry-Go-Round Music. 71
The Roller Coaster. 81
Centrifugal Pleasure Railways. 99
Pleasure Wheels. 105
Water Amusement Rides. 119
Oscillating and Circle Swings. 127
Flat Rides. 133
Observation and Parachute Towers. 147
World’s Fairs. 153
Fun Houses and Illusion Rides. 163
Menageries. 171
Dance Halls. 177
Festive Lights. 181
Fireworks. 185
Miscellaneous Attractions. 191
Appendix. 203
Illustrations
Ferris Wheel - Chicago World's Fair, 1893. Frontispiece
Plan of the Parc Monceau Showing Location of the Attractions. 12
French Carrousel—1662. 58
Arc du Carrousel—Paris. 59
Carrousel Horses with Medieval Trappings. 59
Tilting at the Ring—Fourteenth Century. 60
Tilting at the Ring—Philadelphia Centennial Exposition, 1876. 60
Training Machines for Young Princes - 1770. 61
Early Carrousel Operated by Manpower. 64
Steam-operated American Carrousel - 1880. 64
Musical Instrument Played by a Moving Perforated Cardboard Strip. 72
Pegged Organ Cylinder. 72
Original Hurdy-Gurdy = Eighteenth Century. 73
Russian Ice Slides - 1650. 82
French Roller Coaster Known as Belleville Mountain - 1817. 84
French Racing Coaster at the Jardin Beaujon - 1817. 85
French Coaster Cars at Belleville - 1817. 86
Mauch Chunk Switchback Railway -1870. 87
Early American Coaster Plan - 1878
Thompson’s Original Switchback Railway - 1884. 89
Figure-Eight Roller Coaster - Chestnut Hill Park, Pa., 1890. 92
Modern High-Speed Coaster - Coney Island. 93
French Centrifugal Railway - 1845. 100
Advertisement in Street Railway Journal - 1900. 101
Flip-Flap Coaster - 1888. 102
Loop-the-Loop Coaster - 1901. 103
Russian Pleasure Wheels - 1803. 106
Swings at Mohammedan Festival - Alexandria, Egypt, 1790. 107
Graydon Wheel - 1894. 110
Riesenrad - The Prater, Vienna, 1897. 112
The Prater, Vienna, After World War II Bombing. 113
Early French Shoot-the-Chutes - Jaron Ruggieri, 1817. 120
Shoot-the-Chutes - 1897. 121
Turkish Swings - Sixteenth Century. 128
Mechanical Electric Race Course - Nice, France, 1889. 138
Controlled Parachute Jump - New York World’s Fair, 1939. 148
Controlled Parachute Jump - Gorki Park, Moscow, 1936. 149
Cross-Bow Shooting at a Target - Sixteenth Century. 192
Poster Targets - 1890. 194
Heron’s Eolipile - 150 B.C. 195
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. 204).
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