The Playful Crowd by Gary Cross

The Playful Crowd by Gary Cross

Author:Gary Cross
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: HIS036060, History/United States/20th Century, HIS037030, History/Modern/General
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2005-11-13T16:00:00+00:00


Blackpool looked like Sodom and Gomorrah to the teenagers of the north west. And there, winking salaciously at you from the seafront like some buxom hooker who’s going to rob your wallet, your innocence and your dignity, is the Pleasure Beach. This, we all nodded, is what heaven will look like…. To the uninitiated, the Pleasure Beach can come on with the menace of a school bully. Crop-haired boys with stud earrings and pristine Reeboks snarl malevolently…. But the democratising effect of a rollercoaster turns the most ardent tyke into a pussycat. Once on the rides, the wind-in-the-air, arms aloft sense of pure, unfettered joy makes everyone equal…. Every year it gets more outlandish, each monolithic structure more spectacularly terrifying. Yet the battered old rust-buckets they leave behind—the Grand National, the Cat and Mouse, the Big Dipper—are bequeathed nothing but charm in their wake.”



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