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Playland -- Seattle's Amusement Park (1930-1961)
Coney Island was made of tall tales. The birthplace of the hot dog and the roller coaster, it was the poor man’s paradise, offering sensation for a nickel. By the early twentieth century, it was America’s most popular sea-side resort.
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Joshua Foer • Atlas Obscura: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders
Before long, through service was established between New York City and Knight’s Key, Florida. Mondays through Saturdays, frigid Northern passengers could board the New York and Florida Special at 2:10 P.M. of a murky and snowbound Manhattan afternoon. At 7:30 A.M. on the third day following, they could wake up in a berth of a Pullman car and raise
... See moreLes Standiford • Last Train to Paradise: Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad that Crossed an Ocean
At midcentury, Los Angeles was served by more than a thousand electric trolleys a day.6 These were torn out in a vast criminal conspiracy that is as well documented● as it was inevitable. It’s easy to get mad at General Motors and forget that, at the time, most cities and citizens delighted over the change from old-fashioned streetcars to streamlin
... See moreJeff Speck • Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time
For example, what would an amusement park look like with social distancing? What core elements of the amusement park experience can you reconstruct in a virtual world? What hybrid experience would that then lead to in a post-Covid19 world where distancing ceases but users have been conditioned?
Sangeet Paul Choudary • Covid-19: Big shifts in the entertainment industry
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Pike Street in Seattle, or Granville Island in Canada,
Ray Oldenburg • Celebrating the Third Place: Inspiring Stories About the Great Good Places at the Heart of Our Communities
By spawning drive-ins, fast-food joints, and malls, cars reshaped the physical and cultural landscape of America, and then of many other countries, too. But all of these twentieth-century car-centered institutions are now in decline. Admittedly, the few remaining drive-in cinemas saw a revival of interest during coronavirus lockdowns, and in a neat
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