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The Playful Crowd: Pleasure Places in the Twentieth Century (5th Edition) by Gary Scott Cross, John K. Walton Hardcover, 352 Pages, Published 2005 ISBN-10: 0-231-12724-3 / 0231127243 ISBN-13: 978-0-231-12724-0 / 9780231127240 During the first part of the twentieth century thousands of working-class New Yorkers flocked to Coney Island in search of a release from their workaday lives and the values of bourgeois society. On the other side of the Atlantic, British workers headed off to the beach resort of Blackpool for enter |