Bibliograph

Ghosts of 42nd Street, a history of America's most infamous block, Anthony Bianco

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Ghosts of 42nd Street, a history of America's most infamous block, Anthony Bianco

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Ghosts of 42nd Street

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Anthony Bianco

Sub title

a history of America's most infamous block

Summary

Imagine shuffling down Broadway through the hustle and bustle right into the nonstop, neon heart of New York City: 42nd Street. Once a quiet neighborhood of brownstones and churches, the area was transformed in the early 1900s into an entertainment hub unlike any in the world. No place has ever evoked the glamour and romantic possibility of big city nightlife as vividly as did 42nd Street. It was the dazzle of "naughty, bawdy, gaudy" 42nd Street that put Times Square on the map and turned the Broadway theater district into the Great White Way. Ghosts of 42nd Street stirs your imagination as it takes you on a historical journey of this glamorized strip still known today as the Crossroads of the World. From the bold innovations of Oscar Hammerstein and Florenz Ziegfeld through the porn-laden 1960s and 1970s to the present-day "Disneyfication" of New York's bright lights district, Ghosts of 42nd Street is as fascinating as a tabloid frozen in time

Target audience

adult

resource.variantTitle

Ghosts of Forty-second Street

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