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Twilight on the Bay: The Excursion Boat Empire of B.B. Wills
Brian J. Cudahy
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Description for Twilight on the Bay: The Excursion Boat Empire of B.B. Wills
Hardcover. Num Pages: 242 pages, 72 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: WG. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 166 x 24. Weight in Grams: 566.
Twilight on the Bay: The Excursion Boat Empire of B. B. Wills tells the story of one man’s effort to sail against the tide. In 1934 when Benjamin Bowling Wills purchased a fifty-year-old Hudson River steamboat to bring passengers to an amusement park he owned on the Potomac River south of Washington, D.C., even he didn’t realize that he would soon abandon the amusement park and spend the next thirty-odd years running excursion boats in Washington, Baltimore, Boston, and even Houston, Texas. Relying on the private papers and correspondence of B. B. Wills himself, the author traces the evolution of ... Read more
Twilight on the Bay: The Excursion Boat Empire of B. B. Wills tells the story of one man’s effort to sail against the tide. In 1934 when Benjamin Bowling Wills purchased a fifty-year-old Hudson River steamboat to bring passengers to an amusement park he owned on the Potomac River south of Washington, D.C., even he didn’t realize that he would soon abandon the amusement park and spend the next thirty-odd years running excursion boats in Washington, Baltimore, Boston, and even Houston, Texas. Relying on the private papers and correspondence of B. B. Wills himself, the author traces the evolution of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Tidewater Pub
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Atglen, United States
ISBN
9780870335099
SKU
V9780870335099
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About Brian J. Cudahy
Born in Brooklyn, New York, Brian Cudahy is one of the country’s leading waterway and transportation historians. Born and educated in Brooklyn, he earned a masters and PhD in philosophy and went to work for Boston College. Cudahy taught in the field of transportation and later worked in the marketing department of a local transit system. These led him to ... Read more
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