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characters Í The Devils Playground ì PDF, eBook or Kindle ePUB free Entieth century through the 1950s Times Suare was the whirling dynamo of American popular culture and increasingly an urban sanctuary for the eccentric and the untamed The name itself became emblematic of the tremendous life force of cities everywhereToday Times Suare is once again an awe inspiring place but the dark and strange corners have been filled with blazing light The most famous street character on Broadway “the Naked Cowboy” has his own website and Toys “R” Us calls its flagship store in Times Suare “the toy center of the universe” For the giant entertainment corporations that have moved to this safe clean and self consciously gaudy spot Times Suare is still very much the center of the world But is it still the heart Didn t keep my interest like I thought it would Well researched and if you are a fan of New York City this would be a great read But for me I just couldn t stay interested WA you are a fan of New York City this would be a great read But for me I just couldn t stay interested

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characters Í The Devils Playground ì PDF, eBook or Kindle ePUB free As Times Suare turns 100 New York Times Magazine contributing writer James Traub tells the story of how this mercurial district became one of the most famous and exciting places in the world The Devil’s Playground is classic and colorful American history from the first years of the twentieth century through the Runyonesue heyday of nightclubs and theaters in the 1920s and ’30s to the district’s decline in the 1960s and its glittering corporate revival in the 1990sFirst Traub gives us the great impresarios wits tunesmiths newspaper columnists and nocturnal creatures who shaped Times Suare over the century since the place first got its name Oscar Hammerstein Florenz Ziegfeld George S Kaufman Damon Runyon Walter Winchell and “the uee More like 25 stars The idea is fascinating trace the history of Times Suare from its humble beginnings to the giant corporate billboard that is today I appreciated some of the earlier chapters but got bogged down with his writing style The book just got boring the longer it went on I did learn some useful information but think it should have been about 100 pages shorter