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Remembering Paradise Park
Vickers, Lu; Wilson-Graham, Cynthia
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Description for Remembering Paradise Park
Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBTB; WQH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 28. Weight in Grams: 825.
Paradise Park was the ""colored only"" counterpart to Silver Springs, a central Florida tourist attraction famous for its crystal-clear water and glass bottom boats. From 1949 to 1969, boats passed each other on the Silver River - blacks on one side, whites on the other. Though the patrons of both parks shared the same river, they never crossed the invisible line in the water.
Full of vivid photographs, vintage advertisements, and interviews with employees and patrons, Remembering Paradise Park portrays a place of delight and leisure during the painful era of Jim Crow. Racial violence was at its height ... Read more
Paradise Park was the ""colored only"" counterpart to Silver Springs, a central Florida tourist attraction famous for its crystal-clear water and glass bottom boats. From 1949 to 1969, boats passed each other on the Silver River - blacks on one side, whites on the other. Though the patrons of both parks shared the same river, they never crossed the invisible line in the water.
Full of vivid photographs, vintage advertisements, and interviews with employees and patrons, Remembering Paradise Park portrays a place of delight and leisure during the painful era of Jim Crow. Racial violence was at its height ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University Press of Florida United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Florida, United States
ISBN
9780813061528
SKU
V9780813061528
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About Vickers, Lu; Wilson-Graham, Cynthia
Lu Vickers is coauthor of Weeki Wachee Mermaids: Thirty Years of Underwater Photography and the author of Cypress Gardens, America's Tropical Wonderland: How Dick Pope Invented Florida and the novel Breathing Underwater. Cynthia Wilson-Graham is an educator, lecturer, and advocate of the cultural history and interpretations of Paradise Park.
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