1. Lauren Rabinovitz,
For the Love of Pleasure: Women, Movies and Culture in Turn-of-the Century Chicago
(New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1998), 138.
2. John Kasson,
Amusing the Million: Coney Island at the Turn of the Century (New York: Hill and Wang,
1978), 9.
3. Kasson, 112.
4. Roy Rosenzweig and Elizabeth Blackmar,
The Park and the People: A History of Central Park
(Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992), 24. While New York elites did not necessarily build the park for the working classes, their arguments based on helping
poorer New Yorkers propelled Central Park (and public projects in other large cities) into being.
5. Atlanta Constitution, (March 5, 1887):
7.
6. Atlanta Constitution, (May 13, 1887):
7.
7. Atlanta Constitution, (Jan 19, 1889):
5.
8. Jean Martin,
Mule to MARTA (Atlanta: Atlanta
Historical Society, 1975), 10.
9. Martin, 11.
10. Martin, 18.
11. Martin, 23.
12. Steve Goodson,
Highbrows, Hillbillies and Hellfire: Public Entertainment in Atlanta, 1880-1930
(Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2002), 5.
13 Goodson, 31-32.
14 Goodson, 58-59.
15 Goodson, 59-60.
16 Martin, 17.
17 "A Born Genius,"
Atlanta Constitution,
(August 31, 1890): 8.
18 Dana Anderson, "Sign, Space, and Story: Roller Coasters and
the Evolution of a Thrill,"
Journal of Popular Culture, Volume 33,
Number 2, (Fall 1999): 2.
19 Atlanta Constitution, July 17, 1904.
20 "Five Car Loads of Boats — Many Purchases Made for Ponce de Leon Springs — Opening in May,"
Atlanta Constitution, (April 3, 1903): 6.
21 R.W. Lillard, "How Ponce De Leon Was Made Into An Amusement Resort,"
Atlanta Constitution, (July 17, 1904): C4.
22 R.W. Lillard, "How Ponce De Leon Was Made Into An Amusement Resort,"
Atlanta Constitution, (July 17, 1904): C4.
23 See Atlanta History Center, Atlanta Postcard Collection.
24 Gary M. Pomerantz,
Where Peachtree Meets Sweet Auburn: A Saga of Race and Family (New York: Penguin, 1997), 182-183
25 See Kevin Kruse, "
White Flight,"
Southern Spaces, November 28, 2005.
Published: 15 January 2008
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