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It was aptly called the "Showplace of the Nation" and it was all that and more.
For much of the 20th century Steel Pier in Atlantic City was the center of American entertainment on the East Coast.
Nearly every big-name entertainer - from John Philip Sousa and his band to Tommy Dorsey, Benny Goodman, Frank Sinatra and the Rolling Stones - played there. And nearly every form of entertainment that could be imagined took place at Steel Pier: high wire acts, people being shot out of cannons, the Diving Bell that took you to the sea floor.
There was the Marine Ballroom, and there was rock and roll. There were circus-like animal acts - "Rex The Wonder Dog," a 70-ton Whale, Fortune-Telling Parakeets, Wild Animal Babies, and Boxing Cats.
Steel Pier was an incredible combination of Broadway, Miami, Las Vegas, Hollywood, Barnum and Bailey, and a state fair - "All For One Low Admission." Crowds were drawn from the entire country. The renown of Steel Pier was so great that A-list performers chose the Pier over other venues.
This all-in-one entertainment Mecca, novel in its day, has never been matched, not even at latter-day theme parks. Where else could you take the entire family for a day and see the World of Tomorrow, Sousa and his band, a bear on a bicycle, the High Diving Horses, take a ride below the sea, spend the evening in the marine ballroom, and see a movie - all for one ticket? It was a colossal offering of escape, popular culture, fun and fantasy - experienced on a great pier reaching out into the sea.
Author Steve Liebowitz begins with a brief history of seaside entertainment piers, and competing piers in Atlantic City (such as Million Dollar,Heinz, and Steeplechase) and carries us through incarnations of Steel Pier into the late 20th century.
Filled with 227 photographs and other images (many in color), this large-format book chronicles the rise of one of America's most remarkable entertainment venues - "A Vacation In Itself," as the advertising slogan went. For three-quarters of the last century there was nothing like it.
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Robert Smith
reviewed Steel Pier, Atlantic City: Showplace of the Nation on December 18, 2018
Steel Pier, Atlantic City: Showplace of the Nation
This was a fun, pretty book to flip through, but I also think it may have been designed with the senior citizen set in mind. All places featured had some historic, old-timey features and most entertainments listed involved either low-effort outdoors activities or seeing some historic feature. Most of the photos were either of stunning landscapes or buildings built during the late 19th/early 20th century. I enjoyed it, but I'm an old lady at heart, so quaint tea rooms and pictures of bed and breakfasts totally do it for me.
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