Times Square spectacular : lighting up Broadway / Darcy Tell.

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Tell, Darcy.

Title & Author:

Times Square spectacular : lighting up Broadway / Darcy Tell.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

New York : Smithsonian Books : Collins, 2007.

Description:

xi, 194 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 27 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-181) and index.
Both sides of Broadway -- The Great White Way -- Boomtown -- White Way to midway -- Outdoor theater -- Raze or revive? -- Afterword: Lighting up New York.

Summary:

Darcy Tell traces the 100-year story of Times Square using rare photographs and hand-colored lantern slides, maps, restaurant menus, theater programs, magazine covers, postcards, sheet music, and archival documents. Presenting even the most familiar elements of Times Square lore with fresh detail, she pays special tribute to adman extraordinaire Douglas Leigh's arrival in the early 1930s, which brought a stunning new era of electric brightness and innovation. Leigh dominated the Broadway streetscape for nearly 50 years, stopping traffic with special-effects billboards such as the legendary Camel cigarettes "smoke rings" sign. Covering both Times Square's infamous decline as well as its hard-wrought, present-day revival, this is the first pictorial history of the legendary American landmark.--From publisher description.

Resources:
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description
Table of contents only

ISBN:

9780060884338
0060884339

Subject:

Billboards New York (State) New York History Pictorial works.
Neon signs New York (State) New York History Pictorial works.
Street life New York (State) New York History Pictorial works.
Enseignes lumineuses New York (État) New York Histoire Ouvrages illustrés.
Vie dans la rue New York (État) New York Histoire Ouvrages illustrés.
Billboards
Buildings
Manners and customs
Neon signs
Street life
Times Square (New York, N.Y.) Pictorial works.
Times Square (New York, N.Y.) History Pictorial works.
Times Square (New York, N.Y.) Social life and customs Pictorial works.
New York (N.Y.) Pictorial works.
New York (N.Y.) History Pictorial works.
New York (N.Y.) Social life and customs Pictorial works.
New York (N.Y.) Buildings, structures, etc. Pictorial works.
Times Square (New York, N.Y.) Ouvrages illustrés.
Times Square (New York, N.Y.) Histoire Ouvrages illustrés.
Times Square (New York, N.Y.) Mœurs et coutumes Ouvrages illustrés.
New York (N.Y.) Histoire Ouvrages illustrés.
New York (N.Y.) Mœurs et coutumes Ouvrages illustrés.
New York (State) New York
New York (State) New York Times Square

Form/genre:

Illustrated works
History
Pictorial works
Ouvrages illustrés.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 257334
Call No.: BIB 187815
Status: Available

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