Cleveland Amusement Park Memories by David Francis
Northeast Ohioans who grew up visiting amusement parks in the 1940s through 1970s will cherish the memories captured in this book, which includes Euclid Beach Park, Luna Park, Geauga Lake Park, Puritas Springs Park, White City, Memphis Kiddie Park, Geneva-on-the-Lake, and others. Those boisterous, colorful, exciting meccas fulfilled the fantasies of entertainment-hungry Clevelanders. Each park had its own personality, its own alluring smells and sounds. At Euclid Beach it was the stately sycamores and the unforgettable odor of the lake and of damp earth beneath the pier. At Puritas Springs, the odor of warm oil on the chain of the Cyclone coaster. The chatter of Monkey Island at Luna Park, the sharp reports of the Shooting Gallery at Geauga Lake. David and Diane Francis, authors of several books on amusement park history, including Cedar Point: The Queen of American Watering Places, draw on their own extensive archive and on the memories of fellow park buffs to create a vivid, nostalgic portrait of days gone by.Diane Francis is the author of nine books, including Who Owns Canada Now and Bre-X: The Inside Story, which were both #1 bestsellers. She has been a columnist for Maclean's magazine, The New York Sun, and the Financial Post, and is currently Editor at Large at the National Post and a blogger for The Huffington Post. Francis spent 20 years as a Media Fellow and participant at the World Economic Forum, as well as a Visiting Fellow at Harvard University's Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Affairs. She is presently a Distinguished Professor at the Ted Rogers School of Management at Ryerson University. She is a Chicago native who now splits her time between Toronto and New York City.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781886228894 |
| ISBN 10 | 1886228892 |
| Title | Cleveland Amusement Park Memories |
| Author | David Francis |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Gray & Company Publishers |
| Year published | 2005-01-18 |
| Number of pages | 128 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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