Work day
Notes:
George Tilyou the developer of Coney Island Bragged “If Paris is France then Coney Island is the world”
Tens of thousands of people would go to Coney Island after work or on Sundays and holidays.
Coney Island was said it made you escape from the hard working world.
Entertainment amusement parks, bicycling, new forms of theater and spectator sports.
Boxing and baseball were the most famous spectator spots of there time
If someone could not make it to a game they would go to the barbershop or hotel lobbies to listen to the game on a telegraph
Art galleries libraries books and museums brought new cultural opportunities to more people
Mass production printing techniques brought thousands of books and magazines and newspapers.
Trying to get people to read there newspaper they put big things on there front page.
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