Amusement Parks

by Jim Hillman

America's amusement industry emerged from simple swimming ponds, family picnic areas, and community gathering spots. Although the first major entrepreneurial-driven amusement resort, known as Jones Woods, grew from the banks of New York's East River in the 1800s, the Golden Age of American amusement parks began with the mid-1800s development of a Brooklyn peninsula into "America's Playland" Coney Island. Coney Island also paved the way for other...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0747812098
• ISBN13: 9780747812098
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: Shire Publications
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.9" x 8.3"