Adventureland; see also Disneyland
Advertising: Beamish; Blackpool; Coney Island; and Disney; other theme parks
Africa
African Americans
Alcohol: Blackpool; Coney Island; pleasure gardens and fairs; Disney World; Disney’s California Adventure
Air travel
Alhambra, Blackpool
Allan, Rosy
Alton Towers, England
Americanization
Amusement parks: Alton Towers; Atlantic City; Jones Beach; origins; Playland; recent; and thrill rides; see also Disneyland; Disneyland Paris; Disney’s California Adventure; Dreamworld; Knott’s Berry Farm; Luna Park; Pleasure Beach, Blackpool; Steeplechase Park, Walt Disney World
Animal exhibitions: dog and monkey show; elephants; menageries; zoos
Animal Kingdom; see also Walt Disney World
Annfield Plain
Anonymity
Anthropology
Anti-Semitism
Aquarium, New York
Aquariums
Architecture: at Blackpool; at Coney Island; at Disneyland; at other theme parks; World’s Fair
Aristocracy
Art Deco
Asbury Park
Ashbee, H.S.
Assumption
Astroland; see also Coney Island
Atkinson, Frank
Atlanta
Atlantic City
Audio-Animatronics; see also Walt Disney
Authenticity: and Beamish; and Disney; in historic sites; and museums; and restored railways
Automobiles: at Beamish; at Blackpool; in Britain; and Disney; and the decline of Coney Island; and the decline of heritage; see also Road travel
Autopia
Awdry, Rev. Wilber
Baby shows
Baldwin, Stanley
Bali
Bank Holidays
Barkers
Barnes, Julian
Barnum, P.T.; see also Freak shows Bars, public houses: at Blackpool; in Britain; at Coney Island; and holiday camps
Baseball
Bass museum
Bath, England
Bathing, bathhouses: at Blackpool; at Coney Island; at Playland
Battle shows
Battlefield tourism
Baudrillard, Jean
Bay Ridge
Beaches:
—Blackpool:; contrasted with Coney Island; and property and power; and redevelopment plan; and social mixing
—Coney Island:; and boardwalk; constrasted with Blackpool; and Robert Moses; and Steeplechase Park
—Long Island
—Walt Disney World
Beacon Tower, Coney Island
Beamish Museum: attractions at; compared with Coney Island; compared with Disney; compared with other heritage sites; compared with other theme parks; critiques of; development of; origins of; reaction to Blackpool
Beamish Park Preservation Society
Bean, W.G.
Beaulieu Motor Museum
Beauty queens
Bedouin
Bennett, Tony
Berlin, Irving
Bernstein, Cecil and Sidney
Bickerstaffe, John
Billund, Denmark
Birmingham, England
Blackpool: changes; 1945–1970 changes; 1970–present; architecture; attempts to create a Disneyland at; Carnival; compared to Beamish; compared to Coney Island; compared to Disney; and children; critiques of; as an entertainment center; freak shows; and government; geography; and holiday camps; and industrial saturnalia; as middle class resort; middle-class toleration of; publicity; and respectability; origins as a resort; and sexuality; transportation; as a working-class resort; see also Pleasure Beach
Blackpool Times
Blackpool Tower
Blanchland, England
Bliven, Bruce
Bloom, Sol
Bluebell Railway
Boarding houses, hotels
Boardwalk, Coney Island
Body language
Bogart, Michele
Bolton, England
Boorstin, Daniel
Bostock, Frank
Bowery, Coney Island: compared with Coney amusement parks; decline of; location of; and lowlife entertainment; origins; reaction of Disney; respectable image of; regulation of
Bowes Museum
Boxing
Boyton, Paul
Bradbury, Ray
Bradley, Milton
Brierley, Ben
Brighton
British Broadcasting Corporation
British Tourist Authority
Broadway
Brooklyn
Brown, Ivor
Browning, Todd
Bryson, Bill
Buffalo Bill
Bulgaria
Bull running
Bullard, Horace
Bungalows
Burlesque
Burns, C.D.
Burton-on-Trent, England
Butlin, Billy
Cadbury World
Cairo
Calendar customs
Calhoun, John C.
California
Callithumpians
Campbell, Colin
Camping
Canetti, Elias
Cantor, Eddie
Carnival: at Blackpool; and saturnalia; in the US
Carousels
Cartoons
Casinos
Central Park
Charlton
Chatsworth
Chautauquas
Chicago
Childhood, children: absence from playful crowd; and adults; and amusement rides; and animals; and the beach; and Beamish; and Blackpool; and camps; and Coney Island; and the cool; and crowds; and Disney; on display; and freak shows; and innocence; and nostalgia; and nature; playgrounds; and trains; and wonder
Chinese exhibition
Christmas
Circus train
Circuses
Claremont Park, Blackpool
Clarke, Allen
Clay, Henry
Cleveland, Ohio
Clifton family
Climate
Climbing
Clothing
Clubbing
Coal mining
Coca-Cola, World of
Coler, Bird S.
Colorado
Community, neighbourhood
Comstock, Anthony
Coney Beach, Porthcawl
Coney Island: 1920–40
changes; 1945–1970
changes; 1970–present; architecture; compared to Beamish; compared to Blackpool; compared to Disney; and children; critiques of; as an entertainment center; freak shows; and government; geography; and industrial saturnalia; as middle class resort; middleclass toleration of; publicity; and respectability; origins as a resort; and sexuality; transportation; as a working-class resort; see also Amusement parks; Boardwalk; Dreamworld; Luna Park; Moses, Robert; Sea Lion Park; Steeplechase Park
Chamber of Commerce
Conference center
Conservative Party
Consumer culture
Conway, Katherine St John
Conzen, Professor M. “Coolness”
Co-operative Holidays Association
Co-operative movement
Corbin, Austin
Cotton Factory Times
Couney, Dr M.A.
Countryside
Cox, D.H.
Cremorne Gardens, London
Crime
Cross, Gary
Crowd control
Cruise tourism
Crystal Palace
Culver, Andrew
Culver Plaza
Cure Day
Customs
Cuteness
Cycling
Daily Dispatch
Daily Mail
Daily Mirror
Dallas
Dancing; Morris dancing
Davie, Maurice
Daysh, Prof. G..H.J.
Death
Decency
Delhi
Democracy
Denison, Lindsay
Dentzel, Gustav
Derby, England
Devon, England
Dickens, Charles
Dioramas
Disasters
Disney, Roy
Disney, Walt: as amusement park inventor; and Blackpool; cartoons; and children; critiques and defenders; and the cute; films; and middle-class sensibilities; and nostalgia; rides; see also Disneyland; Walt Disney World
Disney Institute
Disney Tokyo
Disney World. See Walt Disney World Disney’s California Adventure; see also Disneyland; Walt Disney World
Disneyfication; see also Disney, Walt; Disneyland; Walt Disney World Disneyland: architecture; compared to Beamish; compared to Blackpool; compared to Coney Island; compared to Playland; and children; and commercial saturnalia; critiques and defenders of; and the cute; geography; and nostalgia; publicity; origins of; responding to middle-class sensibilities; rides; spectacles; transportation; see also Adventureland; Disney Tokyo; Disneyland Paris; Disney’s California Adventure; Fantasyland; Frontierland; Main Street U.S.A.; Tomorrowland; Walt Disney World
Disneyland Paris
Disney-MGM Studio
Doré, Gustave
Dragon’s Gorge
Dreamland: architecture; and the Beacon Tower; dancehalls; end of; and freak shows; as a middleclass site; origins of; rides; spectacles; uses of abandoned site; see also Coney Island; Luna Park; Steeplechase Park
Dress codes; see also Disneyland
Drug abuse
Dudley, England
Dundy, Skip
Dunlop, Beth
Durante, Jimmy
Durham, County
Earls Court, London
Earthquake
Eastbourne, England
Eco, Umberto
Edison, Thomas
Education: at Beamish; and heritage museums; and pretensions of amusement parks
Edwards, Richard
Eisner, Michael; see also Disneyland; Walt Disney World
Electricity
Elephant Hotel, Coney Island
Elephant Man
Eliot, Charles
Elitism
Ellington, Duke
Ellis, Albert
Emberton, Joseph
Emett, Rowland
EMI
Engeman, William
English Tourist Board
Epcot Center
Erddig, Wales
Ethnicity
Eugenics
Evans, Bill Evening Chronicle, Newcastle
Excursions, excursionists
Exhibitions; see also World’s fairs
Factories, factory workers
Fairs, fairgrounds: at Beamish; at Blackpool; and films; in London; rides; travelling; in the U.S.; and the working class
Families: and amusement parks;; at Beamish; and Blackpool; and cars; at Coney Island; in crowds; at Disneyland; entertainment; and holiday camps; homes; and respectability; and the seaside; at Walt Disney World; see also Children
Fantasy rides
Fantasyland
Farming
Fasting
Feast crowd
Feltman, Charles
Ferris Wheels
Festival of Britain, London
Fielder, Leslie
Films, cinema: at Blackpool; at Coney Island; crowds; at Disney; US
Edison, Thomas; origins
Fires, firefighting
Fireworks
Fisherman’s Wharf, San Francisco
Fitton, Sam
Florida
Flynn, Paul
Food
Football
Ford, Henry
Fortune telling
Foucault, Michel
Freak shows: at Blackpool; at Coney Island; decline of; origins
Fresh Air Fund
Freud, Sigmund
Friends of the Northern Regional Open–Air Museum
Frontierland
Gambling: Atlantic City; at Coney Island; in Britain
Gangs
Gannon, Luke
Gateshead
Gay visitors (Blackpool)
Genteel. See Middle Class Gender
Germans
Gettysburg
Gigantic Wheel, Blackpool
Gilmore, Patrick
Glasgow Tenement House
Globalization
Golf
“Golden Mile,” Blackpool: freak shows; origins; and transformation of; and the working class
Gorky, Maxim
Granada Television
Grand Theatre, Blackpool
Gravesend, N.Y.
Gray, Arthur
Greeks
Greenwich, England
Greenwood, Walter
Greenwood Village
Gregory, Alfred
Grosmont, England Guardian, London
Gumpertz, Samuel
Gypsies
Hadfield, Charles.
Half Moon Hotel, Coney Island.
Halifax, England
Halvey, Julian
Happiness
Hardy, Andy
Harris, Elmer
Harris, Neil
Harlem
Hartt, Rollin
Harvey, David
Haselden, W.K.
Hazelius, Artur
Heath Robinson, W.
Hell, Hell’s Gate
Heller, Joseph
Hench, John
Henson, Jim
Heritage industry: in Britain; in Sweden; in the U.S.
Hermaphrodites
Herriot, Edouard
Hershey’s Chocolate World
Hetton-le-Hole
Hewison, Robert
Historical exhibitions
Historical interpretation
Hodson, J.L.
Hobby-horses
Holiday camps
Holiday season
Holiday Fellowship
Holidays
Holland, William
Hollywood
Holt, William
Home and Garden
Home office
Horse racing
Housing development
Howells, William Dean
Huneker, James
Hyperreality
Identities; American; Jewish
Illuminations, Blackpool
Improvement
Independent Labour Party
Industrial archaeology
Industrial Revolution
Industry
Insurance
Intellectuals
Ireland, Irish
Ironbridge Gorge, England
Italy, Italians
Jack the Ripper
Jackson, Michael
Japan
Jews
Joad, Cyril
Jones Beach
Joseph, Sir Leslie
Kasson, John
Kennywood
Kiddyland
Kinder Scout
King’s Lynn, England
Kitsch
Knott’s Berry Farm
Koolhaas, Rem
La Guardia, Fiorello
Labor discipline
Labor disputes
Labour Leader
Labour Party
Lake District, England
Lancashire
Landladies
Landownership
Landscaping
Lansbury, George
Las Vegas
Laver, James
Lawson, Ernest
Laycock, Arthur
Le Bon, Gustave
Le Gallienne, Richard
Leap Frog Railroad
Leasing practices
Leavis, F.R.
Leeds, England
Legoland
Leonard, T.A.
Levine, Lawrence
Lieberman, Henry R.
Life cycle
Life magazine
Lillehammer, Norway
Lincoln, Abraham
Lindsay, John
Litter
Little Egypt
Littlecote, England
Liverpool, England
Living history; see also Museums
Llandudno
London
Long Beach
Long Branch
Long Island
Looff, Charles
Loop the Loop
Los Angeles
Lowenthal, David
Lucas, E.V.
Lucas, George
Luna Park: architecture; and children; compared with other amusement parks; compared with Disney; dancing at; decline and demolition; freak shows; as a middleclass site; origins of; rides; and Topsy; see also Dreamland; Coney Island; Pleasure Beach; Steeplechase Park; Thompson, Frederic
Lund, Paul Axel
Luostarinmaki Handicrafts Museum, Turku, Finland
Lynd, Robert
Lytham, England
McDisneyfication
McKane, John
Madrid
Main Street U.S.A. (Disney)
Manchester, England
Manhattan Beach Hotel, Coney Island
Manpower Services Commission
Mardi Gras
Margate, England
Marketing; see also Shopping
Marling, Karal Ann
Marsh, Reginald
Mass-Observation
Mass culture
Masterplan, Blackpool
Mauch Chunk, PA
Mawson, T.H.
Maxim, Sir Hiram
May Day
Meccano
Mediterranean
Melville, Herman
Memory
Merrick, Joseph
Merry-go-rounds; see also Carousels
Mexico
Mickey Mouse
Midgets
Middle classes: and automobiles; at Blackpool; at Coney Island; and children; as critics of plebeian pleasures; in crowds; at Disney; flight from plebeian crowds; and genteel pleasures; at holiday camps; at heritage sites; and modern cultural change; and modernity (two routes); and nostalgia; and reform of Coney Island; respectability; see also Children
Migration, immigrant communities: at Blackpool; at Coney Island; see also Ethnicity; Working classes
Miller, John A.
Mills, Steve
Mines, F.S.
Modernity
Monorail
Moore, Kevin
Morecambe, England Morning Advertiser
Moses, Robert; and dislike of Coney Island’s crowds; and vision of Coney Island’s future
Moss, Paul
Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association
Movies. See Films Municipal government: at Beamish; at Blackpool; and Blackpool’s revival; at Coney Island; attempts to reform Coney Island; and the decline of Coney Island; and Disney
Murderers
Murray, D.L.
Museums; Dime museums; Industrial museums; see also Beamish; Freak shows; Heritage industry; Wax museums
Music: band; bar room; at Beamish; about Coney Island; at Disney; and genteel culture; music hall; parade, pleasure garden
Music halls
Nathan’s Famous (hotdog brand)
National Association of Amusement Parks
National Coal Board National Geographic
National Trust
Nature: and genteel values (U.S.); and genteel values (Britain); and working classes; see also Heritage industry; middle class
Neal, Robert
New Brighton, England
New Haven
New Jersey
New Orleans
New York City: intellectuals; and 19th century culture; relations with Coney Island, before 1920; relations with Coney Island, after 1920; World’s Fair; see also municipal government
New York Sun
New York Times
New York World
Newark, N.J.
Newby, Basil
Newcastle upon Tyne, England
Newport, R.I.
Niagara Falls
Nice
Noden, Charles
North Yorkshire Moors Railway
Norton, Michael
Norton’s Point
Nostalgia: fantasy (Disney); and genteel values; grounded (Beamish); and working-class culture
Nottingham, England
Novelty
Nuremberg
Office workers
O. Henry. See Porter, William Sydney
Old Salem
Old Sturbridge Village, Massachusetts
Olmsted, Frederick
Onorato, James
Oral history
Orientalism
Orlando
Ortega y Gasset, José
Orwell, George
Outdoor movement
Outhwaite, J.W.
Padjamers
Pain, Henry
Parachute Jump
Parades
Paradise Park
Paradise Pier
Paris
Parks (green): in Britain; and genteel values; in the U.S.; see also Amusement
parks Paternalism
Patriotism
Patten, Simon
Paz, María Antonia
Peasants
Peddlers
Pensioners
Peter Pan
Philadelphia
Photographs
Phrenologists
Picnic groves; see also Amusement parks; Pleasure grounds
Picturesque;
Piers: at Blackpool; at Coney Island
Pittsburgh
Planning
Play morality
Playground Association
Playland; see also amusement parks Pleasure Beach, Blackpool: architecture; and children; compared with Coney Island amusement parks; critiques and appreciation; and government; as a novel; renovation in the 1930s; as a respectable site; origins of; recent trends; rides; and sexuality
Pleasure gardens
Plimoth Plantation
Pockerley Manor
Police, policing
Pontin, Fred
Porter, Cole
Porter, William Sydney (O. Henry)
Porthcawl, Wales
Portsmouth, England
Postcards
Post-tourism
Potteries, England
Poverty
Premature babies exhibition
Preston, England
Priestley, J.B.
Privacy
Progress
Prohibition
Promenades: in Britain; in the U.S., Prostitution: in Britain; in the U.S.
Quakers
Race, racism
Railways, preserved
Rail travel: and amusement rides; and Beamish; to Blackpool; in Britain; to Coney Island; decline of, at Blackpool; and Disney; and social mixing; in the U.S.; see also Circus train; Leap Frog Railroad; Monorail; Scenic railroads; Transportation; Trams
Ralph, Julian
Ramsgate, England
Rational recreations
Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway
Rawlinson, Michael
Readers’ Digest
Redcoats; see also Butlin, Billy
Regions: English; Midlands; North (England); Northeast (England)
Register, Woody
Reinitz, Bertram
Religion: and Beamish; Catholicism; critiques of the playful crowd; and crowd constraint; decline of, in theme parks; and freak shows; Protestant Nonconformity (England); and religious-themed rides; and saturnalia
Replicas
Respectability: and Beamish; at Blackpool; and the boardwalk; on Coney Island, east end; at Disney; at Dreamland; and the exclusion of African Americans; and gender; and love of nature; in mixed class crowds; at pleasure gardens; and playfulness; at Pleasure Beach; and Protestant Nonconformity; West Brighton; and the working class; see also Middle class
Restaurants
Retirement
Revolution
Reynolds, William
Riegelman, Laura
Riots
Ritzer, George
Road travel: and Beamish; in Britain; to Coney Island, to Blackpool; and Disney, to Long Island resorts; see also Automobiles
Robinson, Kenneth
Rockaway Beach
Rockefeller, John D., Jr.
Rockwell, Norman
Rodgers and Hammerstein
Roller coasters: at Coney Island; at Disney; at Pleasure Beach; origins; at other amusement parks
Rolt, L.T.C.
Romanticism
Ross, Edward
Rounds, J.
Russia, Russians
Rye Beach
St Anne’s, England
St Petersburg, Russia
Salem, Massachusetts
San Diego
San Francisco
Santa Monica
Saratoga Springs
Saturday Evening Post
Saturnalia: commercial (consumerist) saturnalia; industrial saturnalia; traditional; and intellectuals
Savage, Frederick
“Savage tribes”
Sawyer, Tom
Scandinavians
Scenic railroads
Science, scientists
Science fiction
Scottish Highlands
Sea Gate
Sea Lion Park
Sea travel
Sea World
Seaham Harbour
Seidl, Anton
Servants
Sewage pollution
Sex, sexuality: ambivalence and freaks; at Blackpool; causal, at Coney Island; restraint and fear of; and saturnalia; titillation; and rides; at Times Square
Shop workers
Shops, shopping: at Beamish; at Blackpool; in Britain; at Coney Island:; at Disney; in the U.S.; and urban crowds
Shrewsbury, Earls of
Shufflebottom, Texas Bill
Sinatra, Frank
Six Flags Magic Mountain
Sizer, James
Skansen, Sweden; see also Heritage industry; Museums
Slavery
Slosson, Edwin
Smart, Billy
Smart, Ronald
Snobbery
Social mobility
Socialism
Society of Disney Haters
Sousa, John Philip
Southend, England
Southport, England
Souvenirs
Space travel
Spain, Alderman R.B.
Spectacle
Sport
Staff training, Beamish
“Stags and hens”
Stamford, England
Stanley Park, Blackpool
Star Wars
Stately homes
Steeplechase Park: and African-Americans; architecture; and children; compared with other amusement parks; compared with Disney; decline and demolition; origins of; rides; pool; sexual titillation of; see also Dreamland; Coney Island; Luna Park; Pleasure Beach; Tilyou, George
Stephenson, George
Sterngass, Jon
Stiffkey, Rector of
Suburbs: and the appeal of Disney; near Blackpool; and the middle class; in New York
Sunday school
Sunday observance
Sunderland, England
Subway
Switzerland
Tammany Hall
Tampa, Florida
Technology: of amusement rides; and the appeal of Disney; at Beamish; and change at Blackpool; and the decline of Coney Island; at Hershey Park; and industrial saturnalia; and Infant Incubators; and intellectuals;; reaction to
Teenagers: at Blackpool; and the cool; at Disney; see also Thrill rides
Television
Terrell, John
Theaters
Theme parks: in the U.S.; British; and saturnalia; origins; see also Amusement park; Disneyland; Knott’s Berry Farm; Paris Disneyland; Disney Tokyo; Walt Disney World
Themeland, Blackpool
Theroux, Paul
Thomas the Tank Engine
Thompson, Frederic
Thompson, La Marcus
Thompson, Leonard
Thomson, Lord
Tivoli Gardens, Copenhagen
Thrift
Thrill rides
Tilyou, Edward
Tilyou, Frank
Tilyou, George
Tilyou, Marie
Tilsley, Frank
Times (London)
Times Square
“Tom Thumb”
Tomorrowland
Torquay, England
Torture
Toys
Trade unions
Traditions
Traditional pleasures
Trainspotting
Trams
Transportation; see also Air travel; Rail travel; Road travel; Sea Travel; Subways; Trams
Trip to the Moon
Trump, Fred and Donald
Tunbridge Wells
Tunstall, Harold
Turner, Graham
Twain, Mark
Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Blackpool
Unemployment
Universal Studios; see also Amusement parks; Theme parks
Urry, John
Utilities
Vacations
Vauxhall Gardens, London
Venice
Ventriloquists
Verne, Jules
Victoria, Queen
Victorian values
Vidor, King
Visitor surveys
Von Braun, Werner
Wages
Wagner, Sam
Waiters
Wakes holidays
Wallace, Mike
Walt Disney World: age-segmented entertainment; and children; and the cool; and middle-class sensibilities; origins; rides; spectacles; as a tourist site; see also Animal Kingdom; Epcot; Disney-MGM Studios; Magic Kingdom
Walsh, Kevin
Warwick Castle
Washington D.C.
Washington, George
Water parks
Wax museums, waxworks
Weddings
Welk, Lawrence
Welsh Folk Museum
Wharton, Michael
White City, Chicago
White City, London
White Sulphur Springs
Whitman, Walt
Wiener thesis
Wigan
Wigan Pier
Wight, Isle of
Wild West Shows
Williamsburg
Windsor, England
Winter Gardens, Blackpool
Wolfenstein, Martha
Women’s suffrage
Wonder Wheel
Working classes: and affluence; and Beamish; in Blackpool; in Britain; British and U.S. compared; and children; in Coney Island; and Disney; and decline of Coney Island; and ethnicity; and middle–class attitude toward; middle–class uplift of; opposition to Blackpool; in the playful crowd; and respectability; and saturnalia; and sexuality; in the U.S.
Workmen’s Times
World War I
World War II
World’s Fair
World’s Fairs
Yorkshire
Youth Hostel Association
Zoos