Author: Chuck Connors
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Size: 36.61 MB
Format: PDF
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 855
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"Bowery Life" by Chuck Connors. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Life
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Size: 61.55 MB
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Languages : en
Pages : 176
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LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.
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Size: 61.55 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
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Languages : en
Pages : 176
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LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.
The Advocate
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Size: 76.29 MB
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Languages : en
Pages : 72
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The Advocate is a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) monthly newsmagazine. Established in 1967, it is the oldest continuing LGBT publication in the United States.
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Size: 76.29 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
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Languages : en
Pages : 72
View: 5997
The Advocate is a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) monthly newsmagazine. Established in 1967, it is the oldest continuing LGBT publication in the United States.
The National Prohibition Law
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
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Size: 32.62 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Category : Liquor laws
Languages : en
Pages : 1660
View: 2765
Publisher:
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Size: 32.62 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Category : Liquor laws
Languages : en
Pages : 1660
View: 2765
The Bowery
Author: Stephen Paul DeVillo
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 151072687X
Size: 42.27 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 280
View: 2278
From peglegged Peter Stuyvesant to CBGB’s, the story of the Bowery reflects the history of the city that grew up around it. It was the street your mother warned you about—even if you lived in San Francisco. Long associated with skid row, saloons, freak shows, violence, and vice, the Bowery often showed the worst New York City had to offer. Yet there were times when it showed its best as well. The Bowery is New York’s oldest street and Manhattan’s broadest boulevard. Like the city itself, it has continually reinvented itself over the centuries. Named for the Dutch farms, or bouweries, of the area, the path’s lurid character was established early when it became the site of New Amsterdam’s first murder. A natural spring near the Five Points neighborhood led to breweries and taverns that became home to the gangs of New York—the “Bowery B’hoys,” “Plug Uglies,” and “Dead Rabbits.” In the Gaslight Era, teenaged streetwalkers swallowed poison in McGurk’s Suicide Hall. A brighter side to the street was reflected in places of amusement and culture over the years. A young P.T. Barnum got his start there, and Harry Houdini learned showmanship playing the music halls and dime museums. Poets, singers, hobos, gangsters, soldiers, travelers, preachers, storytellers, con-men, and reformers all gathered there. Its colorful cast of characters includes Peter Stuyvesant, Steve Brodie, Carry Nation, Stephen Foster, Stephen Crane, and even Abraham Lincoln. The Bowery: The Strange History of New York’s Oldest Street traces the full story of this once notorious thoroughfare from its pre-colonial origins to the present day.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 151072687X
Size: 42.27 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 280
View: 2278
From peglegged Peter Stuyvesant to CBGB’s, the story of the Bowery reflects the history of the city that grew up around it. It was the street your mother warned you about—even if you lived in San Francisco. Long associated with skid row, saloons, freak shows, violence, and vice, the Bowery often showed the worst New York City had to offer. Yet there were times when it showed its best as well. The Bowery is New York’s oldest street and Manhattan’s broadest boulevard. Like the city itself, it has continually reinvented itself over the centuries. Named for the Dutch farms, or bouweries, of the area, the path’s lurid character was established early when it became the site of New Amsterdam’s first murder. A natural spring near the Five Points neighborhood led to breweries and taverns that became home to the gangs of New York—the “Bowery B’hoys,” “Plug Uglies,” and “Dead Rabbits.” In the Gaslight Era, teenaged streetwalkers swallowed poison in McGurk’s Suicide Hall. A brighter side to the street was reflected in places of amusement and culture over the years. A young P.T. Barnum got his start there, and Harry Houdini learned showmanship playing the music halls and dime museums. Poets, singers, hobos, gangsters, soldiers, travelers, preachers, storytellers, con-men, and reformers all gathered there. Its colorful cast of characters includes Peter Stuyvesant, Steve Brodie, Carry Nation, Stephen Foster, Stephen Crane, and even Abraham Lincoln. The Bowery: The Strange History of New York’s Oldest Street traces the full story of this once notorious thoroughfare from its pre-colonial origins to the present day.
Low Life
Author: Luc Sante
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1466895632
Size: 38.51 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 464
View: 6015
Luc Sante's Low Life is a portrait of America's greatest city, the riotous and anarchic breeding ground of modernity. This is not the familiar saga of mansions, avenues, and robber barons, but the messy, turbulent, often murderous story of the city's slums; the teeming streets--scene of innumerable cons and crimes whose cramped and overcrowded housing is still a prominent feature of the cityscape. Low Life voyages through Manhattan from four different directions. Part One examines the actual topography of Manhattan from 1840 to 1919; Part Two, the era's opportunities for vice and entertainment--theaters and saloons, opium and cocaine dens, gambling and prostitution; Part Three investigates the forces of law and order which did and didn't work to contain the illegalities; Part Four counterposes the city's tides of revolt and idealism against the city as it actually was. Low Life provides an arresting and entertaining view of what New York was actually like in its salad days. But it's more than simpy a book about New York. It's one of the most provocative books about urban life ever written--an evocation of the mythology of the quintessential modern metropolis, which has much to say not only about New York's past but about the present and future of all cities.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1466895632
Size: 38.51 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 464
View: 6015
Luc Sante's Low Life is a portrait of America's greatest city, the riotous and anarchic breeding ground of modernity. This is not the familiar saga of mansions, avenues, and robber barons, but the messy, turbulent, often murderous story of the city's slums; the teeming streets--scene of innumerable cons and crimes whose cramped and overcrowded housing is still a prominent feature of the cityscape. Low Life voyages through Manhattan from four different directions. Part One examines the actual topography of Manhattan from 1840 to 1919; Part Two, the era's opportunities for vice and entertainment--theaters and saloons, opium and cocaine dens, gambling and prostitution; Part Three investigates the forces of law and order which did and didn't work to contain the illegalities; Part Four counterposes the city's tides of revolt and idealism against the city as it actually was. Low Life provides an arresting and entertaining view of what New York was actually like in its salad days. But it's more than simpy a book about New York. It's one of the most provocative books about urban life ever written--an evocation of the mythology of the quintessential modern metropolis, which has much to say not only about New York's past but about the present and future of all cities.
The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine
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Size: 74.87 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages :
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Size: 74.87 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages :
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A Son Of The Bowery
Author: Charles Stelzle
Publisher: Ayer Company Pub
ISBN:
Size: 72.73 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 335
View: 1508
Publisher: Ayer Company Pub
ISBN:
Size: 72.73 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 335
View: 1508
Flophouse
Author: David Isay
Publisher: Random House Incorporated
ISBN:
Size: 38.38 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 150
View: 348
An unforgettable photographic odyssey into New York City's eight remaining flophouses in the Bowery district captures the life stories of the men, representing all backgrounds, races, and classes, who dwell in the forgotten underbelly of one of the world's great cities. 20,000 first printing.
Publisher: Random House Incorporated
ISBN:
Size: 38.38 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 150
View: 348
An unforgettable photographic odyssey into New York City's eight remaining flophouses in the Bowery district captures the life stories of the men, representing all backgrounds, races, and classes, who dwell in the forgotten underbelly of one of the world's great cities. 20,000 first printing.
Captain Close And Sergeant Croesus
Author: Charles King
Publisher:
ISBN:
Size: 39.83 MB
Format: PDF
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 241
View: 2071
Publisher:
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Size: 39.83 MB
Format: PDF
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 241
View: 2071