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Skate crazy : amazing graphics from the golden age of roller skating / Lou Brooks.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks GV 859 .B76 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brooks, Lou.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Roller skating--Pictorial works.
- Roller skating.
- Roller skating--History.
- Genre:
- History.
- Pictorial works.
- Physical Description:
- 142 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Running Press, ©2003.
- Summary:
- By 1942, there were more than 3,000 roller rinks in America, and more than 10 million people skating. That era is captured in this glorious graphic portrait of the country's Golden Age of roller skating (1939-1959), which also illuminates America's rapidly changing society from the end of the Depression through the wartime '40s to the '50s. This provocative look at a pop-culture phenomenon is lavishly illustrated with full-color photographs of skate rink memorabilia, including promotional stickers, postcards, advertisements, programs, and matchbooks.
- ISBN:
- 076241460X
- 9780762414604
- OCLC:
- 53913534
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