The Coast is Finally Clear
Publication Typography Process Book Rachel Bender
The Coast is Finally Clear
Table of Contents Foreword................................................................................................................................. 7 Week 1: Word and Concepts ............................................................................................. 8 Week 2: Dummies and Revised TOCs ........................................................................... 11 Week 3: The Spread Project ............................................................................................ 14 Week 4-5: Type Palette ..................................................................................................... 23 Week 6: A Dark Spot in My Memory ............................................................................. 28 Week 7: Midterm Presentation ........................................................................................ 29 Week 8: Refining Book Concept .................................................................................... 44 Week 9: Pagination ............................................................................................................ 49 Week 10-11: First Full Book Mock Up ........................................................................... 52 Week 12: Refined Mock Up ............................................................................................. 57 Week 13: Cover Options ................................................................................................. 69 Week 14: Final Book ......................................................................................................... 71 Designer Presentation .................................................................................................... 79 Final Thoughts ................................................................................................................... 85
Foreword When I think back on my semester in Type 3, one phrase garners the most attention: "I wish I had more time." Every week blurs together into a rush of confusion about assignments, endless lines for printing, and chiding those in my section for asking those from the other class what was due since the answer tended to be different and would consequently stress everybody out. The class was over just as it had begun, and in that time I always felt like I had done something wrong. It seems that handling the logistics of the workload (i.e., printer logistics, lab press lines, the number of pages needed, uncertainty if pieces should be tabbed on just on the table, being able to have individual meeting times, etc.) was often more important than what ended up on the page itself. I craved a weekly 6-hour studio schedule allotment to critique at not just my work properly, but the pages my peers were creating. I missed group critiques and felt like I was working in solitude most of the semester because I couldn’t afford to spend time talking about what everyone else was doing. Still, I spent a good chunk of the semester waiting, especially for myself. For weeks, I struggled with my concept, lost amongst a disjointed jumble of articles that I couldn’t put together in an order that made sense. I surprised myself when it was the result of the presidential election that finally made me realize that I knew how to unify my book. Overall, I’m very proud of what I accomplished in this class; I pushed myself to create a rather complicated final publication, structure and binding wise. Going back through the past three months has made me realize there were a lot of points of uncertainty and fear that I wish I had gotten past sooner. I wouldn’t say I wasted time necessarily. It was a part of my process, but, while I was in the thick of it, was more like typographical hell. This book chronicles my experiences of making a book, enjoy the meta journey.
xo, Rach
Week 1: Word and Concepts
Brainstorming word association with “coast�
It's hard to believe now, but the word "coast" was not my first choice. I wanted "space," (don't we all?) but somebody else nabbed it before me. I found a ton of directions with my second choice, though, some that were more obvious, like things related to the coastline, and some that were more niche, like things related to beer coasters. The phrase "the coast is clear" came to mind, and I kept trying to think of a way to incorporate it into my system. 8
Word: Coast
Conceptual Statement: I want to create a book based around the three starkly different connotations of the word coast
Word: Coast
Conceptual Statement: I want to create a book based around the three starkly different connotations of the word coast
Table of Contents:
Part I: Bicoastal The Los Angeles Coast as a Public Place East Coast West Coast Feud
Part II: Stuck on a Roller Coaster Designing the Ultimate Thrill Machine Table of Contents: Following a Theme Park Along the Eastern Seaboard PartTrail I: Bicoastal The Los Angeles Coast as a Public Place Part III: Coasters East Coast West Coast Feud Word: Conceptual Coasting on BeerStatement: Mats Coast I want to go through the word coast from its most Part II: Stuck on a Roller Coaster utilitarian to its most escapist Designing the Ultimatepurpose Thrill Machine Following a Theme Park Trail Along the Eastern Seaboard
Word: Coast
Part III: Coasters Conceptual Statement: Coasting on Beer Mats
I want to go through the word coast from its most utilitarian purpose to its most escapist
Table of Contents: Coasting on Beer Mats Designing the Ultimate Thrill Machine The Los Angeles Coast as a Public Place Following a Theme Park Trail Along the Eastern Seaboard East Coast West Coast Feud Table of Contents: Our Coney Island State of Mind Coasting on Beer Mats Designing the Ultimate Thrill Machine The Los Angeles Coast as a Public Place Following a Theme Park Trail Along the Eastern Seaboard East Coast West Coast Feud Our Coney Island State of Mind
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Word: Coast
Conceptual Statement: I want to explore the points of separation and unity between the east and west coast
Word: Coast
Conceptual Statement: I want to explore the points of separation and unity between the east and west coast
Week 1
Table of Contents: Part I: West Coast Best Coast The Los Angeles Coast as a Public Place Part II: East Coast Beast Coast Our Coney Island State of Mind East Coast West Coast Feud Table of Contents: Following a Theme Park Trail Along the Eastern Seaboard Part I: West Coast Best Coast The Los Angeles Coast as a Public Place Part III: Coast to Coast Designing the Ultimate Thrill Machine Part II: East Coast Beast Coast Coasting on Beer Mats Our Coney Island State of Mind East Coast West Coast Feud Following a Theme Park Trail Along the Eastern Seaboard Part III: Coast to Coast Designing the Ultimate Thrill Machine Coasting on Beer Mats
Because of the broad range of content I was pulling from, organizing three tables of content that featured virtually all of the same articles but had three different conceptual organization methods was a challenge. I was having trouble writing simple conceptual statements because I was diving too deep into the process of gathering more and more texts before I even had a place to put them. My initial thought was that I would be able to find a large amount of articles about the differences between the West and East coast, but it would appear this rivalry is hardly mentioned in the academic world. My search had to expand to other topics surrounding "coast." I was overwhelmed and uncertain of how to make my intentions clearer. 10
Week 2: Dummies and Revised TOCs
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I chose my dummy sizes for a couple of practical reasons: I wanted to be able to hold it comfortably in my hand, and I always wanted to be able to print out my spreads on 11x17 paper. I knew the upcoming weeks would involve a lot of printing and mock-ups, and I wanted to streamline that process so that I could focus on what mattered the most to me: the content and typesetting inside. 11
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Concept: I want to explore the points of separation and unity between east and west coast culture TOC West: LA is a Heavenly Place The Los Angeles Coast as a Public Place Endless Summer (1964): Consuming Waves and Surfing the Frontier Weast: East vs. West: Stark Coast-to-Coast Culture Clash Revealed Quora: What Are the Major Cultural Dierences? East: Here is New York East Coast West Coast Feud Our Coney Island State of Mind
Concept: Go through the dierent emotional levels involving coast TOC Utility: Coasting on Beer Mats Coasters Let Students See If Their Drink is Spiked In Loo of Coasters Fantasy: Designing the Ultimate Thrill Machine On the Wild Side Our Coney Island State of Mind The Los Angeles Coast as a Public Place Reality: My Dark California Dream Coastal Wetland Restoration and the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill East Coast/West Coast Art Project
I edited my concept about the differences between the east and west coast to literally have content in the beginning the was related to the left/west go through the middle, and end with content about the east. For my concept where the word "coast" changes meaning, I created stronger separate sections, but the wording wasn't quite right. Still, I liked the idea of having a book with such a wide range of content tied to together by one thread. 12
Dummies and Revised TOCs
Concept: Create a historical map of the evolution of roller coasters throughout the United States, organized by construction material TOC Wood Steel Suspension Virtual Reality
For whatever reason, probably just because they're both fun and scientific, my research drew me to learning more about roller coasters. I changed one of my concepts entirely with a vision in mind to create an incredibly comprehensive history of their evolution in the United States.
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For the an excerpt from the book Travel by Yuichi Yokoyama see pages 1-6
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Commentary on Travel Yuichi Yokoyama Translated by Taro Nettleton
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ciatquamIliquam ea venim etur as senduci liquis expelNam, ipsaest eos esci cullore pro ipsum faceptatem conest, quam, quas
liquam ea venim etur as senduci liquis expelEvendit faccabo. At officipsam ellique volesciet aribus, nes autecti nvelenem reprore,
destota simusam, omnis sumquam di doluptat autem re volest
simillaudit liquidigeni asse inciis nobist moluptate doloria nos explam vid maio. Us molorit vellige nderspe nis dest, int.
Rio omnis sitio eum fugiatio eosam, quiatur, simaximil idelige nihitat umquunt, cuptam quodit, se nulpa verci quia dolore minctem rectatem quiasi acea ni volo doluptat quodi beaqui aceriti vent fugit dolorroviti con re, eosae nonsequamus rempore ssintur audam facepta tusande nduntotam, cus.Nis velecul luptatem se maxim re doloressit quaestis aut et hilitis et ipis ditatur assus moluptatest, quis restem es modis doloreculpa consero dolum harciam, quos eosanti isitat ut omnim qui dolupta temqui quae essequi cum ium veniendem aperoviditas nonem volum quam expla adi incto optae volest, omnisqu undanis estessi miliqui simi, nestion serferio. Od que voluptatus aut audignat. Ut laut velestiori nostiunt volora volorist quo magnatus.
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dolum harciam, quos eosanti isitat ut omnim qui dolupta temqui quae essequi cum ium veniendem aperoviditas nonem volum quam expla adi incto optae volest, omnisqu undanis estessi miliqui simi, nestion serferio. Od que voluptatus aut audignat.Ut laut velestiori nostiunt volora volorist quo magnatus. Otatur, quasped eatur aut volupta non corum recepeleces apere
sed quatem nita con plaut qui toribearum etur, ullique secessi tatibea volori sit que nus ullaborro officabo. Tumquid ucium-
et, nusdam as ut offictiusti doloribus, si ditatur? EdRiorehenim inihillant ma dolenectiant offic tenturi tatiis restis dis et ea cus
quam, teniae pos aut autat as net et laborerum que volecernat excerit, ipiendit mos saperrum nem aut ad quam invelectus as
aut voluptur audant que experemo velecae. Et re nonsendi blacipicit laborer chiliquia porio. Adio expeles maximpore consequas
evel et adit etur se mo velliquiasi sit eatiore perro mi, sam ra conet atia et et, solores dera sumquia quatis cusItatumque ped
dolorion naturibus andisti nimperro voluptas dollatibusam sinvellabore quaspernam quam, quam ad ut apid quiant officit,
eum illabor emporep roviti derem. Et facernatem qui bero et
sin etur?Ecabo. Iliatur, iduntur am nullit remod moluptatium fuga. Ut od que venditius eum, adio et iundelectem que sant
verior suntem acest, imaione pliquam, te si nos dit esecatum,
Otatur, quasped eatur aut volupta non corum recepeleces apere et, nusdam as ut offictiusti doloribus, si ditatur? EdIs a voluptatium ipsunt utae nam inissed mos esequis itaesed quae eatem ne proreptatus
aceriti vent fugit dolorroviti con re, eosae nonsequamus rempore ssintur audam facepta tusande nduntotam, cus. Nis velecul luptatem se maxim re doloressit quaestis aut et hilitis et ipis ditatur assus moluptatest, quis restem es modis doloreculpa consero
Sed que maximo bea eliam qui idunt et aliatemque ommod et ut ut vent od erumquat volupti nonsequod quodi suntotas eosapis
Rio omnis sitio eum fugiatio eosam, quiatur, simaximil idelige nihitat umquunt, cuptam quodit, se nulpa verci quia dolore minctem rectatem quiasi acea ni volo doluptat quodi beaqui aceriti vent fugit dolorroviti con re, eosae nonsequamus rempore ssintur audam facepta tusande nduntotam, cus. Nis velecul luptatem se maxim re doloessit quaestis aut et hilitis et ipis ditatur assus moluptatest, quis restem es modis doloreculpa consero dolum harciam, quos eosanti isitat ut omnim qui dolupta temqui quae essequi cum ium veniendem aperoviditas nonem volum quam expla adi incto optae volest, omnisqu undanis estessi miliqui simi, nestion serferio.Od que voluptatus aut audignat. laut velestiori nostiunt volora volorist quo magnatus
Rio omnis sitio eum fugiatio eosam, quiatur, simaximil idelige nihitat umquunt, cuptam quodit, se nulpa verci quia dolore minctem rectatem quiasi acea ni volo doluptat quodi beaqui
duciendelias sum quiam eium quia quis asinumquis re nobit dem il illorro cusapicid moditium cus quae et anitati ium lacidellique
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nit eosti sit il molum di officae coribeaquis rerit aut undi ipis sediae consed estibus aut qui ut veressi ncimet latiundit idionsectur, natquia tiatinv ellabor sit expliciis simos res nulpa coribus, omnis aut aut re simet autem sendanda doluptas esequaerum non pore vel ipsam cum aut porum, sanihil ilit optassitiur andis asi num nus, ut ad moditatem vendi dolupta temquati que pa velis aut as sit, sumquia quam dis et, qui culparc hilibusTum ut ullessinume nusa dolo comniet voloria sit aut explignis reptaquatus eriorum
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Rio omnis sitio eum fugiatio eosam, quiatur, simaximil idelige nihitat umquunt, cuptam quodit, se nulpa verci quia dolore minctem rectatem quiasi acea ni volo doluptat quodi beaqui aceriti vent fugit dolorroviti con re, eosae nonsequamus rempore ssintur audam facepta tusande nduntotam, cus. Nis velecul luptatem se maxim re doloressit quaestis aut et hilitis et ipis ditatur assus moluptatest, quis restem es modis doloreculpa consero dolum harciam, quos eosanti isitat ut omnim qui dolupta temqui quae essequi cum ium veniendem aperoviditas nonem volum quam expla adi incto optae volest, omnisqu undanis estessi miliqui simi, nestion serferio. Od que voluptatus aut audignat.
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Rio omnis sitio eum fugiatio eosam, quiatur, simaximil idelige nihitat umquunt, cuptam quodit, se nulpa verci quia dolore minctem rectatem quiasi acea ni volo doluptat quodi beaqui aceriti vent fugit dolorroviti con re, eosae nonsequamus rempore ssintur audam facepta tusande nduntotam, cus. Nis velecul luptatem se maxim re doloressit quaestis aut et hilitis et ipis ditatur assus moluptatest, quis restem es modis doloreculpa consero dolum harciam, quos eosanti isitat ut omnim qui dolupta temqui quae essequi cum ium veniendem aperoviditas nonem volum quam expla adi incto optae volest, omnisquTem quibus etus est, con earum ium hitetur? Bitem quibus quam quidestis qui ditatum quasperoreic temquam venis aboresecum secus ex enisimi nturiaspis aspeleseque niam eos et pliae voluptasit lab is natem sim volentis duci as magnis audandu ciatquamIliquam ea venim etur as senduci liquis expelNam, ipsaest eos esci cullore pro ipsum faceptatem conest, quam, quas destota simusam, omnis sumquam di doluptat autem re volest
Rio omnis sitio eum fugiatio eosam, quiatur, simaximil idelige nihitat umquunt, cuptam quodit, se nulpa verci quia dolore minctem rectatem quiasi acea ni volo doluptat quodi beaqui aceriti vent fugit dolorroviti con re, eosae nonsequamus rempore ssintur audam facepta tusande nduntotam, cus.Nis velecul luptatem se maxim re doloressit quaestis aut et hilitis et ipis ditatur assus moluptatest, quis restem es modis doloreculpa consero dolum harciam, quos eosanti isitat ut omnim qui dolupta temqui quae essequi cum ium veniendem aperoviditas nonem volum quam expla adi incto optae volest, omnisqu undanis estessi miliqui simi, nestion serferio. Od que voluptatus aut audignat. Ut laut velestiori nostiunt volora volorist quo magnatus.
Rio omnis sitio eum fugiatio eosam, quiatur, simaximil idelige nihitat umquunt, cuptam quodit, se nulpa verci quia dolore minctem rectatem quiasi acea ni volo doluptat quodi beaqui aceriti vent fugit dolorroviti con re, eosae nonsequamus rempore ssintur audam facepta tusande nduntotam, cus. Nis velecul luptatem se maxim re doloressit quaestis aut et hilitis et ipis ditatur assus moluptatest, quis restem es modis doloreculpa consero dolum harciam, quos eosanti isitat ut omnim qui dolupta temqui quae essequi cum ium veniendem aperoviditas nonem volum quam expla adi incto optae volest, omnisqu 32
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Rio omnis sitio eum fugiatio eosam, quiatur, simaximil idelige nihitat umquunt, cuptam quodit, se nulpa verci quia dolore minctem rectatem quiasi acea ni volo doluptat quodi beaqui aceriti vent fugit dolorroviti con re, eosae nonsequamus rempore ssintur audam facepta tusande nduntotam, cus. Nis velecul luptatem se maxim re doloressit quaestis aut et hilitis et ipis ditatur assus moluptatest, quis restem es modis doloreculpa consero dolum harciam, quos eosanti isitat ut omnim qui dolupta temqui quae essequi cum ium veniendem aperoviditas nonem volum quam expla adi incto optae volest, omnisqu undanis estessi miliqui simi, nestion serferio. Od que voluptatus aut audignat. Ut laut velestiori nostiunt volora volorist quo magnatus. Otatur, quasped eatur aut volupta non corum recepeleces apere et, nusdam as ut offictiusti doloribus, si ditatur? EdIs a voluptatium ipsunt utae nam inissed mos esequis itaesed quae eatem ne proreptatus nosam sitCus ter locupplica; Cupiem am movicus at oc veremus cipiontea sperio co etilissatuus halego mo Catquo es? Nam publinclus, us fes id Cat. Fui egitas Mulius imur, que eo molis, postiorem tastum aperfecre, consum hoculis sceperu rissideris. Patis, sus st in suasdam nonferf icaedit. Publiam sunum iam it, convolt orterfex merte, silius cotatus cum inatabe ssimus, si es rei popopors mihicae perideo nume ocres pere consuppl. Maequam publicauctum fue atiam perem mo et in tem nonesto hoccidet vidit. Gratuam iam a omninesin publisse mandicaste porsum nemus An ia defex mulera ressignon huidemus, sen tem iameridiem quastebus, Cat, cotanul issedem et imurorum est? O tum publis, non reis. Licervidis consilneris, cent finatque ius occis. The Words Here
Rio omnis sitio eum fugiatio eosam, quiatur, simaximil idelige nihitat umquunt, cuptam quodit, se nulpa verci quia dolore minctem rectatem quiasi acea ni volo doluptat quodi beaqui aceriti vent fugit dolorroviti con re, eosae nonsequamus rempore ssintur audam facepta tusande nduntotam, cus. Nis velecul luptatem se maxim re doloressit quaestis aut et hilitis et ipis ditatur assus moluptatest, quis restem es modis doloreculpa consero dolum harciam, quos eosanti isitat ut omnim qui dolupta temqui quae essequi cum ium veniendem aperoviditas nonem volum quam expla adi incto optae volest, omnisquTem quibus etus est, con earum ium hitetur? Bitem quibus quam quidestis qui ditatum quasperoreic temquam venis aboresecum secus ex enisimi nturiaspis aspeleseque niam eos et pliae voluptasit lab is natem sim volentis duci as magnis audandu ciatquamIliquam ea venim etur as senduci liquis expelEvendit faccabo. At officipsam ellique volesciet aribus, nes autecti nvelenem reprore, simillaudit liquidigeni asse inciis nobist moluptate doloria nos explam vid maio. Us molorit vellige nderspe nis dest, int. Sed que maximo bea eliam qui idunt et aliatemque ommod et ut ut vent od erumquat volupti nonsequod quodi suntotas eosapis sed quatem nita con plaut qui toribearum etur, ullique secessi tatibea volori sit que nus ullaborro officabo. Tumquid uciumquam, teniae pos aut autat as net et laborerum que volecernat excerit, ipiendit mos saperrum nem aut ad quam invelectus as evel et adit etur se mo velliquiasi sit eatiore perro mi, sam ra conet atia et et, solores dera sumquia quatis cusItatumque ped eum illabor emporep roviti derem. Et facernatem qui bero et verior suntem acest, imaione pliquam, te si nos dit esecatum,
Rio omnis sitio eum fugiatio eosam, quiatur, simaximil idelige nihitat umquunt, cuptam quodit, se nulpa verci quia dolore minctem rectatem quiasi acea ni volo doluptat quodi beaqui aceriti vent fugit dolorroviti con re, eosae nonsequamus rempore ssintur audam facepta tusande nduntotam, cus. Nis velecul luptatem se maxim re doloessit quaestis aut et hilitis et ipis ditatur assus moluptatest, quis restem es modis doloreculpa consero dolum harciam, quos eosanti isitat ut omnim qui dolupta temqui quae essequi cum ium veniendem aperoviditas nonem volum quam expla adi incto optae volest, omnisqu undanis estessi miliqui simi, nestion serferio.Od que voluptatus aut audignat. laut velestiori nostiunt volora volorist quo magnatus Otatur, quasped eatur aut volupta non corum recepeleces apere et, nusdam as ut offictiusti doloribus, si ditatur? EdIs a voluptatium ipsunt utae nam inissed mos esequis itaesed quae eatem ne proreptatus
Rio omnis sitio eum fugiatio eosam, quiatur, simaximil idelige nihitat umquunt, cuptam quodit, se nulpa verci quia dolore minctem rectatem quiasi acea ni volo doluptat quodi beaqui aceriti vent fugit dolorroviti con re, eosae nonsequamus rempore ssintur audam facepta tusande nduntotam, cus. Nis velecul luptatem se maxim re doloressit quaestis aut et hilitis et ipis ditatur assus moluptatest, quis restem es modis doloreculpa consero dolum harciam, quos eosanti isitat ut omnim qui dolupta temqui quae essequi cum ium veniendem aperoviditas nonem volum quam expla adi incto optae volest, omnisqu undanis estessi miliqui simi, nestion serferio. Od que voluptatus aut audignat.Ut laut velestiori nostiunt volora volorist quo magnatus. Otatur, quasped eatur aut volupta non corum recepeleces apere et, nusdam as ut offictiusti doloribus, si ditatur? EdRiorehenim inihillant ma dolenectiant offic tenturi tatiis restis dis et ea cus aut voluptur audant que experemo velecae. Et re nonsendi blacipicit laborer chiliquia porio. Adio expeles maximpore consequas dolorion naturibus andisti nimperro voluptas dollatibusam sinvellabore quaspernam quam, quam ad ut apid quiant officit, sin etur?Ecabo. Iliatur, iduntur am nullit remod moluptatium fuga. Ut od que venditius eum, adio et iundelectem que sant duciendelias sum quiam eium quia quis asinumquis re nobit dem il illorro cusapicid moditium cus quae et anitati ium lacidellique nit eosti sit il molum di officae coribeaquis rerit aut undi ipis sediae consed estibus aut qui ut veressi ncimet latiundit idionsectur, natquia tiatinv ellabor sit expliciis simos res nulpa coribus, omnis aut aut re simet autem sendanda doluptas esequaerum non pore vel ipsam cum aut porum, sanihil ilit optassitiur andis asi num nus, ut ad moditatem vendi dolupta temquati que pa velis aut as sit, sumquia quam dis et, qui culparc hilibusTum ut ullessinume nusa dolo comniet voloria sit aut explignis reptaquatus eriorum
Rio omnis sitio eum fugiatio eosam, quiatur, simaximil idelige nihitat umquunt, cuptam quodit, se nulpa verci quia dolore minctem rectatem quiasi acea ni volo doluptat quodi beaqui aceriti vent fugit dolorroviti con re, eosae nonsequamus rempore ssintur audam facepta tusande nduntotam, cus. Nis velecul luptatem se maxim re doloressit quaestis aut et hilitis et ipis ditatur assus moluptatest, quis restem es modis doloreculpa consero dolum harciam, quos eosanti isitat ut omnim qui dolupta temqui quae essequi cum ium veniendem aperoviditas nonem volum quam expla adi incto optae volest, omnisqu undanis estessi miliqui simi, nestion serferio. Od que voluptatus aut audignat.
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Rio omnis sitio eum fugiatio eosam, quiatur, simaximil idelige nihitat umquunt, cuptam quodit, se nulpa verci quia dolore minctem rectatem quiasi acea ni volo doluptat quodi beaqui aceriti vent fugit dolorroviti con re, eosae nonsequamus rempore ssintur audam facepta tusande nduntotam, cus. Nis velecul luptatem se maxim re doloressit quaestis aut et hilitis et ipis ditatur assus moluptatest, quis restem es modis doloreculpa consero dolum harciam, quos eosanti isitat ut omnim qui dolupta temqui quae essequi cum ium veniendem aperoviditas nonem volum quam expla adi incto optae volest, omnisqu undanis estessi miliqui simi, nestion serferio. Od que voluptatus aut audignat. Ut laut velestiori nostiunt volora volorist quo magnatus. Otatur, quasped eatur aut volupta non corum recepeleces apere et, nusdam as ut offictiusti doloribus, si ditatur? EdIs a voluptatium ipsunt utae nam inissed mos esequis itaesed quae eatem ne proreptatus nosam sitCus ter locupplica; Cupiem am movicus at oc veremus cipiontea sperio co etilissatuus halego mo Catquo es? Nam publinclus, us fes id Cat. Fui egitas Mulius imur, que eo molis, postiorem tastum aperfecre, consum hoculis sceperu rissideris. Patis, sus st in suasdam nonferf icaedit. Publiam sunum iam it, convolt orterfex merte, silius cotatus cum inatabe ssimus, si es rei popopors mihicae perideo nume ocres pere consuppl. Maequam publicauctum fue atiam perem mo et in tem nonesto hoccidet vidit. Gratuam iam a omninesin publisse mandicaste porsum nemus An ia defex mulera ressignon huidemus, sen tem iameridiem quastebus, Cat, cotanul issedem et imurorum est? O tum publis, non reis. Licervidis consilneris, cent finatque ius occis. The Words Here
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Equia se accatur rercid magni ipid quid ulla consequiaExerchilles sit harum que magnates ipicaboNis aut eosaped quiditi suntemquam et alit, odis quuntur aut di consequias ut doluptatem essitium eum a conAximilia dolorit aquaspicimus quia es aliae
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Equia se accatur rercid magni ipid quid ulla consequiaExerchilles sit harum que magnates ipicaboNis aut eosaped quiditi suntemquam et alit, odis quuntur aut di consequias ut doluptatem essitium eum a conAximilia dolorit aquaspicimus quia es aliae
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Equia se accatur rercid magni ipid quid ulla consequiaExerchilles sit harum que magnates ipicaboNis aut eosaped quiditi suntemquam et alit, odis quuntur aut di consequias ut doluptatem essitium eum a conAximilia dolorit aquaspicimus quia es aliae cum assimus et faccull oreptat emquas iur aspelig niscide bitius, nesse sit acestruptae con corem
quodis cum volut alit, nimenis ut alia dolut que commo testiorCatur solorep elenis alique corereiunt, eturepe prerehent eseque sincian ditatum quam volluptur,Berernate net la nihilitamus aut eiuritemolo modiand ignatio. Itatatemod que mo eaquiat iorectur sit
Equia se accatur rercid magni ipid quid ulla consequiaExerchilles sit harum que magnates ipicaboNis aut eosaped quiditi suntemquam et alit, odis quuntur aut di consequias ut do-
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Equia se accatur rercid magni ipid quid ulla consequiaExerchilles sit harum que magnates ipicaboNis aut eosaped quiditi suntemquam et alit, odis quuntur aut di consequias ut doluptatem essitium eum a conAximilia dolorit aquaspicimus quia es aliaeGent magnam quis simus nestiis moleni Equia se accatur rercid magni ipid quid ulla consequiaExerchilles sit harum que magnates ipicaboNis aut eosaped quiditi suntemquam et alit, odis quuntur aut di consequias ut doluptatem essitium eum a conAximilia dolorit aquaspicimus quia es aliae
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Equia se accatur rercid magni ipid quid ulla consequiaExerchilles sit harum que magnates ipicaboNis aut eosaped quiditi suntemquam et alit, odis quuntur aut di consequias ut doluptatem essitium eum a conAximilia dolorit aquaspicimus quia es aliae
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Equia se accatur rercid magni ipid quid ulla consequiaExerchilles sit harum que magnates ipicaboNis aut eosaped quiditi suntemquam et alit, odis quuntur aut di consequias ut doluptatem essitium eum a conAximilia dolorit aquaspicimus quia es aliaeVita consecu ptatem voluptatqui id quam a que eiunt hilit quisque doleni rerruntem fugia sequi ommolo blatesendus is quaero et est volorro rumquib usandiae con et fuga. Ut ullectius, sendit quuntem voluptas et odis si omnis corporpos il exped ullorest optatem pernat. Nulparum dolore pliquunt vel mossequ idest, conem dolorro ea in exernam sequi ut volor mollenimin nist pores sumquamus molenist, net, vel erciis rae volupta quiaecat eaqui odis ipsant int que dollante dolut faccus, sum sitasit, sintiatur, te
Equia se accatur rercid magni ipid quid ulla consequiaExerchilles sit harum que magnates ipicaboNis aut eosaped quiditi suntemquam et alit, odis quuntur aut di consequias ut doluptatem essitium eum a conAximilia dolorit aquaspicimus quia es aliae
Equia se accatur rercid magni ipid quid ulla consequiaExerchilles sit harum que magnates ipicaboNis aut eosaped quiditi suntemquam et alit, odis quuntur aut di consequias ut doluptatem essitium eum a conAximilia dolorit aquaspicimus quia es aliae
Equia se accatur rercid magni ipid quid ulla consequiaExerchilles sit harum que magnates ipicaboNis aut eosaped quiditi suntemquam et alit, odis quuntur aut di consequias ut doluptatem essitium eum a conAximilia dolorit aquaspicimus quia es aliae cum assimus et faccull oreptat emquas iur aspelig niscide bitius, nesse sit acestruptae con corem
quodis cum volut alit, nimenis ut alia dolut que commo testiorCatur solorep elenis alique corereiunt, eturepe prerehent eseque sincian ditatum quam volluptur,Berernate net la nihilitamus aut eiuritemolo modiand ignatio. Itatatemod que mo eaquiat iorectur sit
Equia se accatur rercid magni ipid quid ulla consequiaExerchilles sit harum que magnates ipicaboNis aut eosaped quiditi suntemquam et alit, odis quuntur aut di consequias ut do-
Equia se accatur rercid magni ipid quid ulla consequiaExerchilles sit harum que magnates ipicaboNis aut eosaped quiditi suntemquam et alit, odis quuntur aut di consequias ut doluptatem essitium eum a conAximilia dolorit aquaspicimus quia es aliaeGent magnam quis simus nestiis moleni Equia se accatur rercid magni ipid quid ulla consequiaExerchilles sit harum que magnates ipicaboNis aut eosaped quiditi suntemquam et alit, odis quuntur aut di consequias ut doluptatem essitium eum a conAximilia dolorit aquaspicimus quia es aliae
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Golden Age of Roller Coasters During their heyday in the 1920s, roller coasters were crude, clanking constructions of steel and wood, and riders had to rely on lap bars and a strong grip to keep from being thrown from their seats. A combination of historic and economic factors caused roller coasters to decline in numbers from the 1930s to the 1970s. First, growing urban populations made trolley-park land valuable to developers, who purchased it to build suburban housing and businesses. The Depression also took away the carefree spending habits of the previous decades. Fires, lack of maintenance, the onset of World War II, and the seediness of many amusement parks all contributed to the dwindling number of North American Roller coasters - down to 147 by 1979. Roller coasters have come a long way since then. With today’s computerized design techniques, electronic controls, and modern materials, engineers are creating more daring - yet much safer - rides. According to the US Product Safety Commission, roller coasters cause only 1.5 deaths per year, out of more than 240 million roller-coaster riders. In addition to better safety restraints, other design changes, including the use of CAD, have made faster, scarier rides possible.
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It’s a familiar scene at every amusement park: People standing patiently in line, sometimes for more than an hour, filled with an odd mixture of trepidation and excitement, inching closer to the moment of truth. Then, after being strapped into their seats and subjected to a fist-clenching, head-spinning, stomach-churning ride, they step of, some exhilarated, others visibly shaken, only to get back in line and do it all over again.
This was not always so. During their heyday in the 1920s, roller coasters were crude, clanking constructions of steel and wood, and riders had to rely on lap bars and a strong grip to keep from being thrown from their seats. Yet despite well-publicized injuries and even fatalities, the roller coaster, then as now, was the king of the amusement park. Indeed, the more terrifying a reputation a roller coaster had, the more riders it attracted. Starting Down The Slippery Slope According to Paul Ruben, the North American editor of Park World magazine, which covers the amusement park industry, the origins of the roller coaster can be traced as far back as the early 17th century in St. Petersburg, Russia. It was there, in 1610, that an enterprising showman constructed a wooden slide over a wood frame to form a steep incline. He then poured water over the structure in the winter to coat it with ice. Patrons soon lined up to pay good money for a terrifying ride down the ramp on sleds, seated in the laps of guides. Legend has it that Empress Catherine the Great was so taken with the ride that she wanted to use it during the summer months. The first wheeled cart was then developed to propel the monarch down the slide. Nearly 200 years later, the French began building what they called “Russian Mountains” around Paris. (When modern roller coasters were developed, Russians called them “American Mountains.”) Like their predecessors, the French rides consisted of wooden towers that provided a continuous descent for wheeled passenger carts. The straight-away design changed with the introduction of the first looping ride, the Chemin de Centrige (Centrifugal Road), at the Frascate Gardens in Paris in 1846. “The ride’s owner would pass the hat among spectators who paid to watch his partner board a wicker carriage, not unlike a large baby carriage, that rolled downhill on railway track through a 13-foot-diameter loop,” Ruben said. Other French looping rides built later included the Chemin de Amour (Road of Love). Passengers were strapped at their waist and feet inside a 7-foot diameter wooden barrel and rolled down an undulating track. “In time, paying spectators of the Chemin de Amour outnumbered the riders,” Ruben said.
As frightening as they are, modern-day roller coasters are designed to provide their passengers with the smoothest, quietest (except for the screaming), and safest ride possible. Engineers use computerized design tools to calculate the forces and stresses to which riders are subjected. Lightweight and durable materials, specially designed restraints, and computerized controls are used to build roller coasters that will give thrill-seekers the ride of their lives without endangering them.
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Golden Age of Roller Coasters During their heyday in the 1920s, roller coasters were crude, clanking constructions of steel and wood, and riders had to rely on lap bars and a strong grip to keep from being thrown from their seats. A combination of historic and economic factors caused roller coasters to decline in numbers from the 1930s to the 1970s. First, growing urban populations made trolley-park land valuable to developers, who purchased it to build suburban housing and businesses. The Depression also took away the carefree spending habits of the previous decades. Fires, lack of maintenance, the onset of World War II, and the seediness of many amusement parks all contributed to the dwindling number of North American Roller coasters - down to 147 by 1979. Roller coasters have come a long way since then. With today’s computerized design techniques, electronic controls, and modern materials, engineers are creating more daring - yet much safer - rides. According to the US Product Safety Commission, roller coasters cause only 1.5 deaths per year, out of more than 240 million roller-coaster riders. In addition to better safety restraints, other design changes, including the use of CAD, have made faster, scarier rides possible. It’s a familiar scene at every amusement park: People standing patiently in line, sometimes for more than an hour, filled with an odd mixture of trepidation and excitement, inching closer to the moment of truth. Then, after being strapped into their seats and subjected to a fist-clenching, head-spinning, stomach-churning ride, they step of, some exhilarated, others visibly shaken, only to get back in line and do it all over again. As frightening as they are, modern-day roller coasters are designed to provide their passengers with the smoothest, quietest (except for the screaming), and safest ride possible. Engineers use computerized design tools to calculate the forces and stresses to which riders are subjected. Lightweight and durable materials, specially designed restraints, and computerized controls are used to build roller coasters that will give thrill-seekers the ride of their lives without endangering them.
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This was not always so. During their heyday in the 1920s, roller coasters were crude, clanking constructions of steel and wood, and riders had to rely on lap bars and a strong grip to keep from being thrown from their seats. Yet despite well-publicized injuries and even fatalities, the roller coaster, then as now, was the king of the amusement park. Indeed, the more terrifying a reputation a roller coaster had, the more riders it attracted. Starting Down The Slippery Slope According to Paul Ruben, the North American editor of Park World magazine, which covers the amusement park industry, the origins of the roller coaster can be traced as far back as the early 17th century in St. Petersburg, Russia. It was there, in 1610, that an enterprising showman constructed a wooden slide over a wood frame to form a steep incline. He then poured water over the structure in the winter to coat it with ice. Patrons soon lined up to pay good money for a terrifying ride down the ramp on sleds, seated in the laps of guides. Legend has it that Empress Catherine the Great was so taken with the ride that she wanted to use it during the summer months. The first wheeled cart was then developed to propel the monarch down the slide. Nearly 200 years later, the French began building what they called “Russian Mountains” around Paris. (When modern roller coasters were developed, Russians called them “American Mountains.”) Like their predecessors, the French rides consisted of wooden towers that provided a continuous descent for wheeled passenger carts. The straight-away design changed with the introduction of the first looping ride, the Chemin de Centrige (Centrifugal Road), at the Frascate Gardens in Paris in 1846. “The ride’s owner would pass the hat among spectators who paid to watch his partner board a wicker carriage, not unlike a large baby carriage, that rolled downhill on railway track through a 13-foot-diameter loop,” Ruben said. Other French looping rides built later included the Chemin de Amour (Road of Love). Passengers were strapped at their waist and feet inside a 7-foot diameter wooden barrel and rolled down an undulating track. “In time, paying spectators of the Chemin de Amour outnumbered the riders,” Ruben said. In the French rides, passenger cars were manually hauled by 3
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chain to their launching point and then released. The first powered ride was built in the 1870s from a former open-pit coal mine located at the top of Mount Pisgah, in Mauch Chunk (now Jim Thorpe), Pa., between Philadelphia and Scranton. When the mine was operating, mules hauled empty coal cars up a railed track, called the Mauch Chunk Railway, to the mountaintop, where the cars were filled with coal. At the end of the day, the miners tried to walk the mules down the mountain, but the stubborn beasts refused. The miners realized that riding down a mountain is easier than walking it, so they put the mules in an empty car when the train was sent down for unloading the coal on barges. The idea of putting people instead of mules in the cars soon followed. When the Mount Pisgah mine was closed in 1873, the coal-car railway was converted to an excursion service. The new line, called the Mauch Chunk Switchback, provided an hour-long scenic ride on an 18-mile-long figure-eight route. A single wooden car that held up to 70 paying passengers on bench seats was pushed to the top of Mount Pisgah and rolled to the base of Mount Jefferson seven miles away. The car was then pushed to the top of Mount Jeerson by a Barney car, which in turn was pulled by a steam engine. The train was then released to roll back to Mount Pisgah. Passengers could disembark on either mountain to enjoy the view, and return on the next car. Although the car reached speeds of 60 miles per hour on the home stretch and had no lap bars, seat belts, or other safety restraints, no one was ever injured on the Mauch Chunk Switchback, which was in service until 1938. The Father Of Modern Roller Coasters The popularity of the Mauch Chunk Switchback spawned a number of imitators. One such ride, built in 1887 in Haverhill, Mass., had closely spaced rollers on the side of a building to provide an incline. Although the ride was not profitable, it did give rise to the name “roller coaster” for the first time. The first modern roller coaster, one with undulating slopes, was the Gravity Pleasure Switchback Railway, built by LaMarcus Adna Thompson in 1884 in Coney Island, N.Y. Thompson’s ride consisted of two wooden towers, each 45 feet high and 450 feet apart, connected with flat steel track laid over five to seven layers
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After A Roller Coaster Ride Neurologic complications after roller coaster rides are uncommon but potentially catastrophic. Physicians should have a high index of suspicion and prompt appropriate investigation. A 22-year-old healthy African American man presented with a 2-day history of constant occipital headache associated with vertigo, nausea, vomiting, and ambulatory dysfunction. Physical examination
showed gait ataxia, slight dysmetria, and vertical nystagmus.
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the brain showed early subacute ischemic infarct in the right cerebellum in the distri-
bution of the right posterior inferior cerebellar artery. Magnetic
resonance angiography of the neck showed focal dissection of
the right vertebral artery at C1 through C2 level. On subsequent questioning, the patient recollected riding a roller coaster 2
weeks before the onset of symptoms. Anticoagulation with hepa-
rin was started, and the patient was bridged to oral warfarin. After a 5-day uneventful hospital course, symptoms improved and
patient was discharged on oral anticoagulation. Cervicocephalic arterial dissections after roller coaster rides are rarely described in literature. The acceleration and abrupt changes of direction
might lead to indirect trauma that is applied to mobile portions
of the cervicocephalic arteries leading to intimal tears. Magnetic resonance angiography combined with axial T1-weighted cervical MRI is preferred because it is a high-sensitive, noninvasive test. The rationale for the use of anticoagulants or antiplatelets in patients with cervicocephalic arterial dissection is to prevent
References Burneo JG, Shatz R, Papamitsakis NIH: Amusement park stroke . Neurology 55 564- 2000. Fukutake T, Mine S, Yamakami I: Roller-coaster headache and subdural hematoma . Neurology 54 2642000. Schneck M, Simionescu M, Bijari A: Bilateral vertebral artery dissection possibly precipitated in delayed fashion as a result of roller coaster rides . J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis 17 (1): 39-41, 2008. Lascelles K, Hewes D, Ganesan V: An unexpected consequence of roller coaster ride . J Neurol Neurosurg
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chain to their launching point and then released. The first powered ride was built in the 1870s from a former open-pit coal mine located at the top of Mount Pisgah, in Mauch Chunk (now Jim Thorpe), Pa., between Philadelphia and Scranton. When the mine was operating, mules hauled empty coal cars up a railed track, called the Mauch Chunk Railway, to the mountaintop, where the cars were filled with coal. At the end of the day, the miners tried to walk the mules down the mountain, but the stubborn beasts refused. The miners realized that riding down a mountain is easier than walking it, so they put the mules in an empty car when the train was sent down for unloading the coal on barges. The idea of putting people instead of mules in the cars soon followed. When the Mount Pisgah mine was closed in 1873, the coal-car railway was converted to an excursion service. The new line, called the Mauch Chunk Switchback, provided an hour-long scenic ride on an 18-mile-long figure-eight route. A single wooden car that held up to 70 paying passengers on bench seats was pushed to the top of Mount Pisgah and rolled to the base of Mount Jefferson seven miles away. The car was then pushed to the top of Mount Jeerson by a Barney car, which in turn was pulled by a steam engine. The train was then released to roll back to Mount Pisgah. Passengers could disembark on either mountain to enjoy the view, and return on the next car. Although the car reached speeds of 60 miles per hour on the home stretch and had no lap bars, seat belts, or other safety restraints, no one was ever injured on the Mauch Chunk Switchback, which was in service until 1938. The Father Of Modern Roller Coasters The popularity of the Mauch Chunk Switchback spawned a number of imitators. One such ride, built in 1887 in Haverhill, Mass., had closely spaced rollers on the side of a building to provide an incline. Although the ride was not profitable, it did give rise to the name “roller coaster” for the first time. The first modern roller coaster, one with undulating slopes, was the Gravity Pleasure Switchback Railway, built by LaMarcus Adna Thompson in 1884 in Coney Island, N.Y. Thompson’s ride consisted of two wooden towers, each 45 feet high and 450 feet apart, connected with flat steel track laid over five to seven layers 4
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After A Roller Coaster Ride Neurologic complications after roller coaster rides are uncommon but potentially catastrophic. Physicians should have a high index of suspicion and prompt appropriate investigation. A 22-year-old healthy African American man presented with a 2-day history of constant occipital headache associated with vertigo, nausea, vomiting, and ambulatory dysfunction. Physical examination
showed gait ataxia, slight dysmetria, and vertical nystagmus.
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the brain showed early subacute ischemic infarct in the right cerebellum in the distri-
bution of the right posterior inferior cerebellar artery. Magnetic
resonance angiography of the neck showed focal dissection of
the right vertebral artery at C1 through C2 level. On subsequent questioning, the patient recollected riding a roller coaster 2
weeks before the onset of symptoms. Anticoagulation with hepa-
rin was started, and the patient was bridged to oral warfarin. After a 5-day uneventful hospital course, symptoms improved and
patient was discharged on oral anticoagulation. Cervicocephalic arterial dissections after roller coaster rides are rarely described in literature. The acceleration and abrupt changes of direction
might lead to indirect trauma that is applied to mobile portions
of the cervicocephalic arteries leading to intimal tears. Magnetic resonance angiography combined with axial T1-weighted cervical MRI is preferred because it is a high-sensitive, noninvasive test. The rationale for the use of anticoagulants or antiplatelets in patients with cervicocephalic arterial dissection is to prevent
References Burneo JG, Shatz R, Papamitsakis NIH: Amusement park stroke . Neurology 55 564- 2000. Fukutake T, Mine S, Yamakami I: Roller-coaster headache and subdural hematoma . Neurology 54 2642000. Schneck M, Simionescu M, Bijari A: Bilateral vertebral artery dissection possibly precipitated in delayed fashion as a result of roller coaster rides . J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis 17 (1): 39-41, 2008. Lascelles K, Hewes D, Ganesan V: An unexpected consequence of roller coaster ride . J Neurol Neurosurg
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What is the historic “California dream”—the one people still talk about today? How does California’s 21st-century reality differ from that dream? And what is the California dream of today and the future? Answering these questions, said Zócalo California and innovation editor Joe Mathews, is key to understanding this big, complicated state—and creating a shared story for today’s Californians. “We are way overdue for an assessment not only of who we are, but who we want to be,” said Mathews. Over the past two years, Mathews has written Zócalo’s “Connecting California” column, which appears in 30 media outlets across the state. He’s asked people in all corners of California for their ideas and dreams—and used their answers to offer such an assessment to a large crowd at Grand Central Market. The iconic California dream was of rapidly acquired middle-class wealth, said Mathews—and it is “older than the American dream, which is a slightly poorer cousin of the California dream.” The American dream was a Puritan dream of modest wealth, accumulated year by year; according to historian H. W. Brands, the California dream—following the Gold Rush—was one “‘of instant wealth, won in a twinkling by audacity and good luck.’” This dream was based partially in reality: Late-19th-century California offered high living standards and high wages, and California has a history of excellent public education and innovation. But the dream was also part “nonsense,” said Mathews. You couldn’t just grab a piece of property and be set for life. Profit and exploitation, boom and bust, have always come hand-in-hand here. So what is a more realistic dream in today’s California?
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“We are not a land of leisure,” said Mathews. California is a center of industry, technology, and work. This state is the opposite of its reputation for flakiness; scholars have found that California is one of the top places in the country for worker productivity. And the state attracts more venture capital in some years than the rest of the U.S. combined. California pays more in federal taxes, and gets back less in federal benefits, than virtually every other state. “The next time someone from out of state calls Californians flakes,” said Mathews, “you tell them that we’re the ones subsidizing your flakiness.” California is also a state of high poverty rates and middle-class struggle, with more than half of the nation’s 50 most expensive real estate markets. California no longer attracts the young, poor, and ambitious, said Mathews—those people are leaving for other states. California is no longer a magnet for immigrants, either. The state’s immigrants are settled rather than being recent arrivals. Today, a majority of Californians are native-born. This means Californians are becoming more like one another—and as a result, “we are, dare I say, less sexy than we used to be,” said Mathews. Yet each California city and region still maintains a character separate from the rest of the state; it’s difficult to figure out what connects us to one another. The economy of the southern San Joaquin Valley, with its oil and gas production, seems a lot like Texas; economically, the Bay Area has more in common with Seoul and Boston than it does with Riverside. So how does one sum up all these regions and diverse communities? Mathews said that all of California’s major regions
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What is the historic “California dream”—the one people still talk about today? How does California’s 21st-century reality differ from that dream? And what is the California dream of today and the future? Answering these questions, said Zócalo California and innovation editor Joe Mathews, is key to understanding this big, complicated state—and creating a shared story for today’s Californians. “We are way overdue for an assessment not only of who we are, but who we want to be,” said Mathews. Over the past two years, Mathews has written Zócalo’s “Connecting California” column, which appears in 30 media outlets across the state. He’s asked people in all corners of California for their ideas and dreams—and used their answers to offer such an assessment to a large crowd at Grand Central Market. The iconic California dream was of rapidly acquired middle-class wealth, said Mathews—and it is “older than the American dream, which is a slightly poorer cousin of the California dream.” The American dream was a Puritan dream of modest wealth, accumulated year by year; according to historian H. W. Brands, the California dream—following the Gold Rush—was one “‘of instant wealth, won in a twinkling by audacity and good luck.’” This dream was based partially in reality: Late-19th-century California offered high living standards and high wages, and California has a history of excellent public education and innovation. But the dream was also part “nonsense,” said Mathews. You couldn’t just grab a piece of property and be set for life. Profit and exploitation, boom and bust, have always come hand-in-hand here. So what is a more realistic dream in today’s California?
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“We are not a land of leisure,” said Mathews. California is a center of industry, technology, and work. This state is the opposite of its reputation for flakiness; scholars have found that California is one of the top places in the country for worker productivity. And the state attracts more venture capital in some years than the rest of the U.S. combined. California pays more in federal taxes, and gets back less in federal benefits, than virtually every other state. “The next time someone from out of state calls Californians flakes,” said Mathews, “you tell them that we’re the ones subsidizing your flakiness.” California is also a state of high poverty rates and middle-class struggle, with more than half of the nation’s 50 most expensive real estate markets. California no longer attracts the young, poor, and ambitious, said Mathews—those people are leaving for other states. California is no longer a magnet for immigrants, either. The state’s immigrants are settled rather than being recent arrivals. Today, a majority of Californians are native-born. This means Californians are becoming more like one another—and as a result, “we are, dare I say, less sexy than we used to be,” said Mathews. Yet each California city and region still maintains a character separate from the rest of the state; it’s difficult to figure out what connects us to one another. The economy of the southern San Joaquin Valley, with its oil and gas production, seems a lot like Texas; economically, the Bay Area has more in common with Seoul and Boston than it does with Riverside. So how does one sum up all these regions and diverse communities? Mathews said that all of California’s major regions
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Coney Island State of Mind
Here we see every shade of Coney Island’s weirdness: a photo by Eliza Rinn of two blue-and-gold-sequinclad Mermaid Paraders kissing in the surf; a painting by Keith Richard Griffiths of a fish with suspenders and a pompadour smoking a cigar; a photo by Bruce Handy of the annual New Year’s Day Polar Bear Plunge; and a painting by Kelynn Z. Alder of a goofy mutt named the “Coney Island Dog” (“fun in person!” it advertises). Inevitably, there are images of the “funny face,” a demonic figure with an evil grin and horn-like tufts of hair that once adorned George C. Tilyou’s Steeplechase Park. Today you can find the “funny face” all over Coney Island, serving as a kind of unofficial mascot. If you want to experience the distilled essence of Coney Island, “Sodom by the Sea” is the place to go. At the Brooklyn Museum, these decades are represented by the nocturnal visions of [Lawrence Ferlinghetti], who named his 1958 poetry collection after a passage from [Henry Miller]’s 1936 novel “Black Spring.” “Everything is sordid, shoddy, thin as pasteboard,” Miller wrote. “A Coney Island of the mind.” The final section of the exhibition runs from 1962, when the space-themed amusement park Astroland opened, until 2008, when it closed. This final chapter is named after Darren Aronofsky’s movie “Requiem for a Dream,” which is partly set among aging residents of Coney Island, and which ranks among the most depressing movies in the recent history of American cinema. But the era of Coney Island’s nadir is best evoked in “Last Days of Coney Island,” a long-awaited movie by pioneering animator [Ralph Bakshi]. The exhibit focuses on 10 artists who worked at Coney Island, including visual artists Richard Eagan and Philomena Marano, co-founders of the Coney Island Hysterical Society; playwright Harvey Fierstein and set designer Bill Stabile, whose off Broadway
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As magical as Coney Island was, it could also be positively ghoulish.
Beasts of the Southern Wild: The wooden carousel horses of the Steeplechase, carved by Jewish immigrant sculptors like Charles Carmel, took riders around a fixed track at 25 miles an hour.
play “Spookhouse” was inspired by the abandoned Dragon’s Cave ride; and Dick D. Zigun, a graduate of the Yale School of Drama and founder of Coney Island USA, whose dedication to the area has made him the unofficial “Mayor of Coney Island.” Works in the show include Eagan and Marano’s “25 Shoot,” a cut-paper work based on [Coney]’s original shooting galleries; a wax bust of Albert Einstein rescued by the artists from the now-defunct World in Wax Musée; and several pieces inspired by the Kensington Hotel, which was located underneath the Thunderbolt rollercoaster and was made famous in fictionalized form as Alvy Singer’s childhood home in “Annie Hall.” Right now, on the bleeding edge of December, Coney Island is all over New York City. Just as the weather gets frosty and summer beach days recede from memory, the beach is suddenly everywhere. There’s a big exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum titled “Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland, 1861-2008,” which opened on November 20. There are smaller shows at the central branch of the Brooklyn Public Library, the City Lore gallery in Manhattan’s East Village, the Valentine Museum of Art in Flatbush and in Coney Island itself, at the Coney Island Museum. There is also “The Last Days of Coney Island,” a new movie by animator Ralph Bakshi, which was released on Vimeo at the end of October. As winter sets in and the temperature drops, all eyes turn to Coney. That seems appropriate, though. If it were summer, we wouldn’t be thinking about Coney Island - we would be at Coney Island. Instead of looking at art in a museum, we’d be roasting on the beach, riding the Cyclone, eating hot dogs until our guts burst. Only now, when those pleasures seem so abstract, do we stop and think: What does Coney Island mean?
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Coney Island State of Mind
Here we see every shade of Coney Island’s weirdness: a photo by Eliza Rinn of two blue-and-gold-sequinclad Mermaid Paraders kissing in the surf; a painting by Keith Richard Griffiths of a fish with suspenders and a pompadour smoking a cigar; a photo by Bruce Handy of the annual New Year’s Day Polar Bear Plunge; and a painting by Kelynn Z. Alder of a goofy mutt named the “Coney Island Dog” (“fun in person!” it advertises). Inevitably, there are images of the “funny face,” a demonic figure with an evil grin and horn-like tufts of hair that once adorned George C. Tilyou’s Steeplechase Park. Today you can find the “funny face” all over Coney Island, serving as a kind of unofficial mascot. If you want to experience the distilled essence of Coney Island, “Sodom by the Sea” is the place to go. At the Brooklyn Museum, these decades are represented by the nocturnal visions of [Lawrence Ferlinghetti], who named his 1958 poetry collection after a passage from [Henry Miller]’s 1936 novel “Black Spring.” “Everything is sordid, shoddy, thin as pasteboard,” Miller wrote. “A Coney Island of the mind.” The final section of the exhibition runs from 1962, when the space-themed amusement park Astroland opened, until 2008, when it closed. This final chapter is named after Darren Aronofsky’s movie “Requiem for a Dream,” which is partly set among aging residents of Coney Island, and which ranks among the most depressing movies in the recent history of American cinema. But the era of Coney Island’s nadir is best evoked in “Last Days of Coney Island,” a long-awaited movie by pioneering animator [Ralph Bakshi]. The exhibit focuses on 10 artists who worked at Coney Island, including visual artists Richard Eagan and Philomena Marano, co-founders of the Coney Island Hysterical Society; playwright Harvey Fierstein and set designer Bill Stabile, whose off Broadway
East
As magical as Coney Island was, it could also be positively ghoulish.
Beasts of the Southern Wild: The wooden carousel horses of the Steeplechase, carved by Jewish immigrant sculptors like Charles Carmel, took riders around a fixed track at 25 miles an hour.
play “Spookhouse” was inspired by the abandoned Dragon’s Cave ride; and Dick D. Zigun, a graduate of the Yale School of Drama and founder of Coney Island USA, whose dedication to the area has made him the unofficial “Mayor of Coney Island.” Works in the show include Eagan and Marano’s “25 Shoot,” a cut-paper work based on [Coney]’s original shooting galleries; a wax bust of Albert Einstein rescued by the artists from the now-defunct World in Wax Musée; and several pieces inspired by the Kensington Hotel, which was located underneath the Thunderbolt rollercoaster and was made famous in fictionalized form as Alvy Singer’s childhood home in “Annie Hall.” Right now, on the bleeding edge of December, Coney Island is all over New York City. Just as the weather gets frosty and summer beach days recede from memory, the beach is suddenly everywhere. There’s a big exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum titled “Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland, 1861-2008,” which opened on November 20. There are smaller shows at the central branch of the Brooklyn Public Library, the City Lore gallery in Manhattan’s East Village, the Valentine Museum of Art in Flatbush and in Coney Island itself, at the Coney Island Museum. There is also “The Last Days of Coney Island,” a new movie by animator Ralph Bakshi, which was released on Vimeo at the end of October. As winter sets in and the temperature drops, all eyes turn to Coney. That seems appropriate, though. If it were summer, we wouldn’t be thinking about Coney Island - we would be at Coney Island. Instead of looking at art in a museum, we’d be roasting on the beach, riding the Cyclone, eating hot dogs until our guts burst. Only now, when those pleasures seem so abstract, do we stop and think: What does Coney Island mean?
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Drinks in the bathroom? Beats the alternatives...Toronto bartender Samantha Gibbon is trying to figure out how it will work once Ontario passes new legislation to allow patrons to take drinks into bathrooms. “Where would you put it?” Gibbon wonders as she holds an imaginary drink in one hand and tries to picture herself in the toilet stall of a bar. “You can’t squat and hold your drink at the same time.” The new law is designed to cut down on cases of date rape in which drugs are slipped into the drinks of unsuspecting customers, usually women. Similar laws are already in effect in B.C., Alberta and Saskatchewan. “You would put it on a ledge,” answers waitress Shannon Day, who’s on a break, eating chicken Caesar salad at the bar across from Gibbon. Day finds the idea of taking a drink to the toilet “unsanitary.” “Why would you hold your drink and pee?” she asks. “What if there’s no ledge?” says Gibbon, who, in theory, thinks the plan is “brilliant” and “necessary” but “gross.” “Then you put it on the floor.” “What if the bathroom floor is all wet with toilet paper?” “Well, I would suck it back, then put it on the Moor,” says Day. “You know what’s funny,” says Gibbon. “People leave the bar and they put a coaster on top of their drink like that’s going to protect them somehow. Then when they come back with their cigarettes and the coaster is still on top, they think it’s fine. You see that all the time!”
Gibbon thinks drugging is so prevalent that any woman who goes to a bar without friends is “doomed.” “Remember when I had it slipped to me?” she says. “At a club I used to work at, I was drugged. I didn’t even realize. My boss came and took me off the bar. He said, ‘What have you had to drink?’ I said, ‘Nothing.’ I went and sat with one of the bouncers for an hour, then all of a sudden I was overwhelmingly sick but I couldn’t throw up. It’s like I’d drunk 80 glasses of wine, but you can’t throw up and you can’t move. You’re like a bag. You can’t do anything.” Day was drugged, too, at a club. “I was told I was all over someone. I had a friend take me home. I was told, ‘You need to leave.’ I have no memory of it.” “Nobody wants to have to bring their drinks into the bathroom,” says Gibbon, “but nowadays you have to.”
Coasters Let Students See If Their Drink Is Spiked Halifax university hands them out to raise ‘date rape’ drug awareness HALIFAX- Saint Mary’s University (SMU) in Halifax is the first Canadian university to give out special beer mats or drink coasters that can tell if a drink is spiked. Although there are no official figures for Canada, spiking drinks with so-called “date rape” drugs is regarded as a major problem on campuses in the United States. According
to a report by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, a subsidiary of the US. National institutes of Health, about 70,000 postsecondary students in the U.S. are victims of alcohol-related rapes or sexual assaults every year. “We don’t know how widespread it is here,” said Donnie Jeffrey, a counsellor with student services at SMU and a member of the campus DRAFT team (Drink Responsibly And Feel Terrific), which won a national award in 1999 for its student alcohol awareness programs. “But we want students to be aware that there are drugs out there that can be slipped into drinks and make them vulnerable.” The university decided to include the cardboard coasters in the orientation pack given to all incoming first-year students. “We get the coasters from Florida and each one costs 40 cents American,” said Jeffrey. The man behind the coasters, Francisco Guerra, said there is a misconception that only females are at risk from the drugs-,and it’s not just sexual assault that’s the danger. Increasing numbers of men are being targeted for robberies and assaults after being drugged. One of the main appeals of the test for the students is simplicity. When word got out about the SMU initia-
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tive, other Canadian colleges and universities started calling the manufacturer, Drink Safe Technology. “The response from Canada has been phenomenal,” Guerra said. A successful special effects producer, Guerra decided to do something about date rape drugs after a friend was given a spiked drink at a business conference two years ago. “She ended up traumatized and with a sexually transmitted disease. Her husband divorced her and she even lost custody of the kids.” He said coming up with a simple test that shows whether something’s been added to your drink became his “good works” cause. He teamed up with a New Yorkbased dentist-Dr. Brian Gloverwho has a strong background in chemistry to fully develop the test concept. “Most universities and colleges in the States don’t want to talk about the prevalence of date rape drugs on campuses, but it is probably the single biggest health problem they have,” he said. “Rohypnol isn’t the problem since the manufacturers added a blue dye and made it hard to dissolve, but there are other drugs like GHB and compounds any bright kidand campuses are full
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Drinks in the bathroom? Beats the alternatives...Toronto bartender Samantha Gibbon is trying to figure out how it will work once Ontario passes new legislation to allow patrons to take drinks into bathrooms. “Where would you put it?” Gibbon wonders as she holds an imaginary drink in one hand and tries to picture herself in the toilet stall of a bar. “You can’t squat and hold your drink at the same time.” The new law is designed to cut down on cases of date rape in which drugs are slipped into the drinks of unsuspecting customers, usually women. Similar laws are already in effect in B.C., Alberta and Saskatchewan. “You would put it on a ledge,” answers waitress Shannon Day, who’s on a break, eating chicken Caesar salad at the bar across from Gibbon. Day finds the idea of taking a drink to the toilet “unsanitary.” “Why would you hold your drink and pee?” she asks. “What if there’s no ledge?” says Gibbon, who, in theory, thinks the plan is “brilliant” and “necessary” but “gross.” “Then you put it on the floor.” “What if the bathroom floor is all wet with toilet paper?” “Well, I would suck it back, then put it on the Moor,” says Day. “You know what’s funny,” says Gibbon. “People leave the bar and they put a coaster on top of their drink like that’s going to protect them somehow. Then when they come back with their cigarettes and the coaster is still on top, they think it’s fine. You see that all the time!”
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Gibbon thinks drugging is so prevalent that any woman who goes to a bar without friends is “doomed.” “Remember when I had it slipped to me?” she says. “At a club I used to work at, I was drugged. I didn’t even realize. My boss came and took me off the bar. He said, ‘What have you had to drink?’ I said, ‘Nothing.’ I went and sat with one of the bouncers for an hour, then all of a sudden I was overwhelmingly sick but I couldn’t throw up. It’s like I’d drunk 80 glasses of wine, but you can’t throw up and you can’t move. You’re like a bag. You can’t do anything.” Day was drugged, too, at a club. “I was told I was all over someone. I had a friend take me home. I was told, ‘You need to leave.’ I have no memory of it.” “Nobody wants to have to bring their drinks into the bathroom,” says Gibbon, “but nowadays you have to.”
Coasters Let Students See If Their Drink Is Spiked Halifax university hands them out to raise ‘date rape’ drug awareness HALIFAX- Saint Mary’s University (SMU) in Halifax is the first Canadian university to give out special beer mats or drink coasters that can tell if a drink is spiked. Although there are no official figures for Canada, spiking drinks with so-called “date rape” drugs is regarded as a major problem on campuses in the United States. According
to a report by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, a subsidiary of the US. National institutes of Health, about 70,000 postsecondary students in the U.S. are victims of alcohol-related rapes or sexual assaults every year. “We don’t know how widespread it is here,” said Donnie Jeffrey, a counsellor with student services at SMU and a member of the campus DRAFT team (Drink Responsibly And Feel Terrific), which won a national award in 1999 for its student alcohol awareness programs. “But we want students to be aware that there are drugs out there that can be slipped into drinks and make them vulnerable.” The university decided to include the cardboard coasters in the orientation pack given to all incoming first-year students. “We get the coasters from Florida and each one costs 40 cents American,” said Jeffrey. The man behind the coasters, Francisco Guerra, said there is a misconception that only females are at risk from the drugs-,and it’s not just sexual assault that’s the danger. Increasing numbers of men are being targeted for robberies and assaults after being drugged. One of the main appeals of the test for the students is simplicity. When word got out about the SMU initia-
Wouldn’t a pull quote look nice here? Maybe, who knows.
tive, other Canadian colleges and universities started calling the manufacturer, Drink Safe Technology. “The response from Canada has been phenomenal,” Guerra said. A successful special effects producer, Guerra decided to do something about date rape drugs after a friend was given a spiked drink at a business conference two years ago. “She ended up traumatized and with a sexually transmitted disease. Her husband divorced her and she even lost custody of the kids.” He said coming up with a simple test that shows whether something’s been added to your drink became his “good works” cause. He teamed up with a New Yorkbased dentist-Dr. Brian Gloverwho has a strong background in chemistry to fully develop the test concept. “Most universities and colleges in the States don’t want to talk about the prevalence of date rape drugs on campuses, but it is probably the single biggest health problem they have,” he said. “Rohypnol isn’t the problem since the manufacturers added a blue dye and made it hard to dissolve, but there are other drugs like GHB and compounds any bright kidand campuses are full
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Going Places Visits to Sesame Place, Busch Gardens, Water Country USA, and Kings Dominion, sandwiched around a side trip to the Baltimore Zoo and National Aquarium, proved to be fantastic family fare. During the time we dated and through the early years of our marriage, my wife had a hard-and-fast rule when it came to vacations: It’s always better to end a trip a day too early than a day too late. On our various getaways to Hawaii, Aruba, Vermont, Maine, New Hampshire, and Florida, her advice proved wise indeed. So it was with a little bit of shock that I heard about our latest planned adventure. We were to hit the road for nine straight days-- the first and last being for travel exclusively-- working our way from New York to Pennsylvania to Maryland to, finally, Virginia, while visiting Sesame Place, the Baltimore Zoo, the National Aquarium in Baltimore, Busch Gardens, Water Country USA, and Kings Dominion. I certainly was up for such a trip, but I wasn’t sure our kids could be pushed to that extent. After all, our oldest, Julie, was just four, and her younger brothers, Alex and Trevor, were three and one, respectively. Apparently, though, Margaret had done some strategic politicking with our offspring while I was at the office. They not only were all pumped up to go, daily counting down the days until
Pa., home of Sesame Place, the idea being to arrive at the hotel in late afternoon, get settled, have dinner, then get a good night’s sleep so we’d be fresh, alert, and on time to the park Sunday morning. It went like clockwork. The drive turned out to be a breeze. Despite their tender years, our kids are excellent long-distance riders-no whining about the drive being too long; no grousing about each other talking or singing or playing too loudly; and, most gratifying to their parents, no asking constantly, “Are we there yet?” Moreover, we brought along the perfect insurance policy-- Video-in-a-Bag-so our trio of young travelers could watch their favorite tapes anytime they wanted. We left Julie in charge of the inventory, although it was usually Trevor, the most aggressive of our threesome, who was making the selections. I stayed in the mini-van with the kids while Margaret went to check in. It was a bit of a long wait as there were three wedding parties (and guests) coming and going at the time of our arrival. The sight of a group of bridesmaids and their fancy gowns prompted Julie to ask what was going on. I explained that the women were on their way to a wedding, which led to a fascinating discussion in which I learned that my daughter was going to get married and be a mommy someday, but not before
our departure, but each night at the dinner table-without fail-in the weeks leading up to our vacation, the two oldest would recite our entire itinerary: listing all the places we were to go to, as well as the names of the hotels we were to stay at and the type of accommodations we were to enjoy at each, like whether it had an indoor or outdoor swimming pool, if the pools were heated, which places were suites, what nights they would be sleeping on a pull-out couch, etc. One of the concessions I had to make once we had children was that my days of going places in the off-season were over. Although I abhor crowds and am the absolute grouchiest person on Earth if made to stand in long lines-I’ll never understand the lure of Walt Disney World-I was resigned to my fate of exclusively summer vacations. However, since our oldest was only in prekindergarten, a latespring vacation could still be a reality, at least for this year. The trouble is, with three water parks on the docket, we were gambling with the weather. Before June, it’s common to run into not only rainy days, but cool ones. (Personally, I love the cold and the rain more than anything except a raging blizzard, but nowadays, the kids must come first.) Yet, early and mid May produced near drought conditions in the Northeast for the first time in memory. Not only didn’t a drop of rain fall, but there wasn’t a cloud sighting for weeks. We left early Saturday afternoon under blue skies-that was to change drastically in less than 24 hours-for Langhorne,
Roller Coaster Timeline
1884 The first United States coaster is built at Coney Island, New York. Designed by LaMarcus Thompson, the gentle, six-mile-per-hour ride was called the Gravity Pleasure Switchback Railway. Later that year the first continuous track coaster-ending where it began-was built. 1885 The mechanical hoist is invented; cars are no longer manually towed to the top of the first hill. 1907 The first high-speed coaster, Drop the Dip, opens in New Jersey. It is also the first coaster to use lap bars. 1910-12 The safety ratchet, or safety chain dog, that keeps cars from rolling backwards while going up a hill, and the under friction safety wheels are invented by John A. Miller, the designer of more than 100
15th century The Russian Ice Slides, the roller coasters greatgreat grandfather, premieres in St. Petersburg. People would ride blocks of ice down icy wooden ramps-some as high as 70 feet with a 50-degree angle. Late 1700s The first wheeled coaster, consisting of gentle slopes, appears in St. Petersburg. 1827 The United States gets its first taste of the fun with the Mauch Chunk Railroad in Pennsylvania. A railway system developed to bring coal from the bottom of a mountain, it was turned into a 30-minute thrill ride with speeds topping 100 miles per hour. It still ranks as the longest coaster ride ever. 1846 The first loop, the Chemin de Centrifuge, is built in Paris.
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Going Places Visits to Sesame Place, Busch Gardens, Water Country USA, and Kings Dominion, sandwiched around a side trip to the Baltimore Zoo and National Aquarium, proved to be fantastic family fare. During the time we dated and through the early years of our marriage, my wife had a hard-and-fast rule when it came to vacations: It’s always better to end a trip a day too early than a day too late. On our various getaways to Hawaii, Aruba, Vermont, Maine, New Hampshire, and Florida, her advice proved wise indeed. So it was with a little bit of shock that I heard about our latest planned adventure. We were to hit the road for nine straight days-- the first and last being for travel exclusively-- working our way from New York to Pennsylvania to Maryland to, finally, Virginia, while visiting Sesame Place, the Baltimore Zoo, the National Aquarium in Baltimore, Busch Gardens, Water Country USA, and Kings Dominion. I certainly was up for such a trip, but I wasn’t sure our kids could be pushed to that extent. After all, our oldest, Julie, was just four, and her younger brothers, Alex and Trevor, were three and one, respectively. Apparently, though, Margaret had done some strategic politicking with our offspring while I was at the office. They not only were all pumped up to go, daily counting down the days until
Pa., home of Sesame Place, the idea being to arrive at the hotel in late afternoon, get settled, have dinner, then get a good night’s sleep so we’d be fresh, alert, and on time to the park Sunday morning. It went like clockwork. The drive turned out to be a breeze. Despite their tender years, our kids are excellent long-distance riders-no whining about the drive being too long; no grousing about each other talking or singing or playing too loudly; and, most gratifying to their parents, no asking constantly, “Are we there yet?” Moreover, we brought along the perfect insurance policy-- Video-in-a-Bag-so our trio of young travelers could watch their favorite tapes anytime they wanted. We left Julie in charge of the inventory, although it was usually Trevor, the most aggressive of our threesome, who was making the selections. I stayed in the mini-van with the kids while Margaret went to check in. It was a bit of a long wait as there were three wedding parties (and guests) coming and going at the time of our arrival. The sight of a group of bridesmaids and their fancy gowns prompted Julie to ask what was going on. I explained that the women were on their way to a wedding, which led to a fascinating discussion in which I learned that my daughter was going to get married and be a mommy someday, but not before
our departure, but each night at the dinner table-without fail-in the weeks leading up to our vacation, the two oldest would recite our entire itinerary: listing all the places we were to go to, as well as the names of the hotels we were to stay at and the type of accommodations we were to enjoy at each, like whether it had an indoor or outdoor swimming pool, if the pools were heated, which places were suites, what nights they would be sleeping on a pull-out couch, etc. One of the concessions I had to make once we had children was that my days of going places in the off-season were over. Although I abhor crowds and am the absolute grouchiest person on Earth if made to stand in long lines-I’ll never understand the lure of Walt Disney World-I was resigned to my fate of exclusively summer vacations. However, since our oldest was only in prekindergarten, a latespring vacation could still be a reality, at least for this year. The trouble is, with three water parks on the docket, we were gambling with the weather. Before June, it’s common to run into not only rainy days, but cool ones. (Personally, I love the cold and the rain more than anything except a raging blizzard, but nowadays, the kids must come first.) Yet, early and mid May produced near drought conditions in the Northeast for the first time in memory. Not only didn’t a drop of rain fall, but there wasn’t a cloud sighting for weeks. We left early Saturday afternoon under blue skies-that was to change drastically in less than 24 hours-for Langhorne,
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1884 The first United States coaster is built at Coney Island, New York. Designed by LaMarcus Thompson, the gentle, six-mile-per-hour ride was called the Gravity Pleasure Switchback Railway. Later that year the first continuous track coaster-ending where it began-was built. 1885 The mechanical hoist is invented; cars are no longer manually towed to the top of the first hill. 1907 The first high-speed coaster, Drop the Dip, opens in New Jersey. It is also the first coaster to use lap bars. 1910-12 The safety ratchet, or safety chain dog, that keeps cars from rolling backwards while going up a hill, and the under friction safety wheels are invented by John A. Miller, the designer of more than 100
15th century The Russian Ice Slides, the roller coasters greatgreat grandfather, premieres in St. Petersburg. People would ride blocks of ice down icy wooden ramps-some as high as 70 feet with a 50-degree angle. Late 1700s The first wheeled coaster, consisting of gentle slopes, appears in St. Petersburg. 1827 The United States gets its first taste of the fun with the Mauch Chunk Railroad in Pennsylvania. A railway system developed to bring coal from the bottom of a mountain, it was turned into a 30-minute thrill ride with speeds topping 100 miles per hour. It still ranks as the longest coaster ride ever. 1846 The first loop, the Chemin de Centrifuge, is built in Paris. 5
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Week 6: A Dark Spot in My Memory Coast
To Shining Sea East
Here we see every shade of Coney Island’s weirdness: a photo by Eliza Rinn of two blueand-gold-sequin-clad Mermaid Paraders kissing in the surf; a painting by Keith Richard Griffiths of a fish with suspenders and a pompadour smoking a cigar; a photo by Bruce Handy of the annual New Year’s Day Polar Bear Plunge; and a painting by Kelynn Z. Alder of a goofy mutt named the “Coney Island Dog” (“fun in person!” it advertises). Inevitably, there are images of the “funny face,” a demonic figure with an evil grin and horn-like tufts of hair that once adorned George C. Tilyou’s Steeplechase Park. Today you can find the “funny face” all over Coney Island, serving as a kind of unofficial mascot. If you want to experience the distilled essence of Coney Island, “Sodom by the Sea” is the place to go. At the Brooklyn Museum, these decades are represented by the nocturnal visions of [Lawrence Ferlinghetti], who named his 1958 poetry collection after a passage from [Henry Miller]’s 1936 novel “Black Spring.” “Everything is sordid, shoddy, thin as pasteboard,” Miller wrote. “A Coney Island of the mind.” The final section of the exhibition runs from 1962, when the spacethemed amusement park Astroland opened, until 2008, when it closed. This final chapter is named after Darren Aronofsky’s movie “Requiem for a Dream,” which is partly set among aging residents of Coney Island, and which ranks among the most depressing movies in the recent history of American cinema. But the era of Coney Island’s nadir is best evoked in “Last Days of Coney Island,” a long-awaited movie by pioneering animator [Ralph Bakshi].
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15th century The Russian Ice Slides, the roller coasters great-great grandfather, premieres in St. Petersburg. People would ride blocks of ice down icy wooden ramps-some as high as 70 feet with a 50-degree angle. Late 1700s The first wheeled coaster, consisting of gentle slopes, ap-
pears in St. Petersburg. 1827 The United States gets its first taste of the fun with the Mauch Chunk Railroad in Pennsylvania. A railway system developed to bring coal from the bottom of a mountain, it
was turned into a 30-minute thrill ride with speeds topping 100 miles per hour. It still ranks as the longest coaster ride ever. 1846 The first loop, the Chemin de Centrifuge, is built in Paris.
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As magical as Coney Island was, it could also be positively ghoulish. Beasts of the Southern Wild: The wooden carousel horses of the Steeplechase, carved by Jewish immigrant sculptors like Charles Carmel, took riders around a fixed track at 25 miles an hour.
1884 The first United States coaster is built at Coney Island, New York. Designed by LaMarcus Thompson, the gentle, six-mile-perhour ride was called the Gravity
The exhibit focuses on 10 artists who worked at Coney Island, including visual artists Richard Eagan and Philomena Marano, co-founders of the Coney Island Hysterical Society; playwright Harvey Fierstein and set designer Bill Stabile, whose off Broadway play “Spookhouse” was inspired by the abandoned Dragon’s Cave ride; and Dick D. Zigun, a graduate of the Yale School of Drama and founder of Coney Island USA, whose dedication to the area has made him the unofficial “Mayor of Coney Island.” Works in the show include Eagan and Marano’s “25 Shoot,” a cut-paper work based on [Coney]’s original shooting galleries; a wax bust of Albert Einstein rescued by the artists from Pleasure Switchback Railway. Later that year the first continuous track coaster-ending where it began-was built. 1885 The mechanical hoist is invented; cars are no longer manually towed to the top of the first hill. 1907
The first high-speed coaster, Drop the Dip, opens in New Jersey. It is also the first coaster to use lap bars. 1910-12 The safety ratchet, or safety chain dog, that keeps cars from rolling
backwards while going up a hill, and the under friction safety wheels are invented by
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Living Rules
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Table of Contents West: West Coast by Lana Del Rey The California Dream in Now the California Struggle The Los Angeles Coast as a Public Place Weast: Not Your Mother’s Coaster Chat Forums: Differences Between the East and West Coast The Science of Thrill Making East: East Coast by Das EFX New York by EB White Coney Island State of Mind Throughout: Roller Coaster History Timelines
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Changing Times
Coney Island State of Mind
Here we see every shade of Coney Island’s weirdness: a photo by Eliza Rinn of two blue-and-gold-sequin-clad Mermaid Paraders kissing in the surf; a painting by Keith Richard Griffiths of a fish with suspenders and a pompadour smoking a cigar; a photo by Bruce Handy of the annual New Year’s Day Polar Bear Plunge; and a painting by Kelynn Z. Alder of a goofy mutt named the “Coney Island Dog” (“fun in person!” it advertises). Inevitably, there are images of the “funny face,” a demonic figure with an evil grin and horn-like tufts of hair that once adorned George C. Tilyou’s Steeplechase Park. Today you can find the “funny face” all over Coney Island, serving as a kind of unofficial mascot. If you want to experience the distilled essence of Coney Island, “Sodom by the Sea” is the place to go. At the Brooklyn Museum, these decades are represented by the nocturnal visions of [Lawrence Ferlinghetti], who named his 1958 poetry collection after a passage from [Henry Miller]’s 1936 novel “Black Spring.” “Everything is sordid, shoddy, thin as pasteboard,” Miller wrote. “A Coney Island of the mind.” The final section of the exhibition runs from 1962, when the space-themed amusement park Astroland opened, until 2008, when it closed. This final chapter is named after Darren Aronofsky’s movie “Requiem for a Dream,” which is partly set among aging residents of Coney Island, and which ranks among the most depressing movies in the recent history of American cinema. But the era of Coney Island’s nadir is best evoked in “Last Days of Coney Island,” a long-awaited movie by pioneering animator [Ralph Bakshi]. The exhibit focuses on 10 artists who worked at Coney Island, including visual artists Richard Eagan and Philomena Marano, co-founders of the Coney Island Hysterical Society; playwright Harvey Fierstein and set designer Bill Stabile, whose offBroadway play “Spookhouse” was inspired by the abandoned Dragon’s Cave ride; and Dick D. Zigun, a graduate of the Yale School of Drama and founder of Coney Island USA, whose dedication to the area has made him the unofficial “Mayor of Coney Island.” Works in the show include Eagan and Marano’s “25 Shoot,” a cut-paper work based on [Coney]’s original shooting galleries; a wax bust of Albert Einstein rescued by the artists from the now-defunct World in Wax Musée; and several pieces inspired by the Kensington Hotel, which was located underneath the Thunderbolt rollercoaster and was made famous in fictionalized form as Alvy Singer’s childhood home in “Annie Hall.”
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Right now, on the bleeding edge of December, Coney Island is all over New York City. Just as the weather gets frosty and summer beach
about Coney Island - we would be at Coney Island. Instead of looking at art in a museum, we'd be roasting on the beach, riding the Cyclone, eating hot dogs until our guts burst. Only now, when those pleasures seem so abstract, do we stop and think: What does Coney Island mean?
days recede from memory, the beach is suddenly everywhere. There's a big exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum titled "Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland, 18612008," which opened on November 20. There are smaller
That might be an unnecessary question - does Coney Island have to mean anything, beyond what it obviously is? For generations of New Yorkers, from immigrant Jews and Italians living in Brownsville to current-day Park Slope parents, Coney Island is a beach you can get to by subway, with roller coasters to boot. Even if we're not living three families to a tenement, swimming and sunbathing have a self-evident appeal. But if there's a common assumption underlying all of these exhibits, it's that Coney Island does mean something - that
shows at the central branch of the Brooklyn Public Library, the City Lore gallery in Manhattan's East Village, the Valentine Museum of Art in Flatbush and in Coney Island itself, at the Coney Island Museum. There is also "The
it's not just a place or the sum of its oddball parts, but an idea, a fantasy, a vision. It's the site of hedonistic summertime pursuits as well as a hallucination, a mirage. Coney Island constantly struggles to break the hold of reality and launch itself into dream. Consider the iconography of Coney Island. There's the annual Mermaid Parade in June, with its pageant of fish folk wearing little more than blue and green body paint. There are the side-
Last Days of Coney Island," a new movie by animator
shows, which display the weird and uncanny as they inhabit human form. Consider the actual neighborhood of Coney
Ralph Bakshi, which was released on Vimeo at the end of October. As winter sets in and the temperature drops, all eyes turn to Coney. That seems appropriate, though. If it were summer,
Island lying behind the beach and the boardwalk, a gritty and desolate place with street names like Neptune and Mermaid. Indeed, the mermaid is the great symbol of Coney Island: half-human and half-fish, a creature of both land and sea, mortal but not quite of this Earth. To quote Lawrence Ferlinghetti quoting Henry Miller, there's a "Coney Island of the mind" as well as a Coney Island of the flesh. Where and how the two
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Since it closes forever after today, I decided to give Playland-at-the-Beach one more chance to kill me. Parking my Mazda Rotary where the city meets the sea, I stepped up to that familiar open window at the corner of the Balboa and ordered a Bull Pupp Enchilada. “Famous for 49 Years.” This one tasted a little younger and had plenty of zing. Bull Pupps are not for the kidds. Then I walked up the block to the It’s It place and had a 40-cent corn dog, with plenty of mustard and catsup, and topped that with an It’s It itself: the fabled sweetmeat made of two oatmeal cookies with vanilla ice cream between, the whole covered with
Beasts of the Southern Wild: The wooden carousel horses of the Steeplechase, carved by Jewish immigrant sculptors like Charles Carmel, took riders around a fixed track at 25 miles an hour.
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We’ll Never Go There Anymore
As magical as Coney Island was, it could also be positively ghoulish.
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While researching Our San Francisco chapters, we run into many beautiful and lyrical Herb Caen columns. This may be our all-time favorite. Playland-at-the-Beach had been on a downhill slide for more than a decade, never completely the same after co-founder George K. Whitney died in 1958. Crime reports were common at the park in the early 1970s. Few protested when it was sold to a condo developer and scheduled for demolition. Below is an excerpt from Caen’s Sept. 4, 1972, column. The amusement park closed the following week.
bled the place dry, letting it fall apart like railroad
the wagon and drove off. As a San Franciscan I
chocolate sauce and frozen. The It’s It didn’t taste as good as I remembered it from years past, but hardly anything
owners trying to discourage the passenger trade. As I stood on the
felt embarrassed. “When Playland closes,” an old-timer points out, “San
does. For one thing, the ice cream between the cookies should be flat. This was round, scooped out like a golf ball and it never did soften to
sidewalk, gnawing at my It’s It, a station wagon with Oregon plates pulled up to the
Francisco will be the last major city in the country without an amusement park.” It
a manageable mess.
curb and out stepped a Norman Rockwell family — with youngish
has been for some time now.
parents and three neat pigtailed little girls. They stared in dismay at the fading and fallen
way, barely alive with yesterday’s laughter. The Diving Bell, a ride I never did like, stood suspended
Still, as junk food, it’s right up there with Taco Bell and Shakey’s Pizza, and dyspepsia was fast setting in. I had planned of getting a little heartsick over the closing of Playland, but heartburn would have to do. I wouldn’t want to keep you away from today’s last rites, but Playland looks awful. Along with the familiar aroma of salt air, popcorn, tobacco and greasy food there is the smell of death. Somebody along the way must have 16
signs, the grimy windows, the debris on streets and sidewalks. After a long silence, one of the girls took her father’s hand and said “Let’s go, Daddy.” They got back in
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in rust over a pool of fetid water and beer cans. At the old rifle range, George Whitney’s first concession 50 years ago, I emptied a load of .22 shells at moving
targets so grimy you could barely see them. In the corner of the Fun House, hideous Laughin’ Sal bobbed up and down, cackling. As kids, we used to cover our ears as we passed Sal, and we did so again. Inside, I began the long three-story climb to the top of the finest, longest, humpiest wooden slide in the world. On the lane next to me sat a little blonde girl, staring down the long slide and screaming in terror as her mother tried to get her going. “Tell her it’s safe!” the mother implored me. “It isn’t kid,” I
when the scary, rickety roller coaster, the Big Dipper, was torn down in the late 1950s, for what is an amusement park without a roller coaster? After a show or on a weekend, we’d ride the Dipper in clouds of shrieks, losing our breath on the first dizzying descent and never finding it again until the end, when it was “Let’s go again!” There
said as I whooshed off. “You gotta be crazy to ride this thing,” slide, bump, slide, bump, crash into the wall at the bottom.
was the slide that took you into Topsy’s Roost to dance to Ellis Kimball, the milk bottles that wouldn’t fall over even when you hit them, Skee Ball (delightful game) and the prizes you gave your girl in return
Old Playland. I suppose only
for her admiring gaze… Goodbye to all that, to part of
those who knew it in the glory days will really miss it, and part of the glory disappeared
our youth, and that youth, we expected Playland to last forever. It is an odd, sad feeling
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Changing Times
The Rise and Spectacular Fall of Venice’s Pacific Ocean Park Pacific Ocean Park has been a Modernist icon and symbol of urban decay. A new book tells the story
If you had walked along the beach in Venice in the early 1970s, you would have come across the sagging, crumbling, partially incinerated ghost of an old amusement park on a pier. If you've
A new book by Christopher Merritt and Domenic Priore (with a brief foreword by Beach Boy Brian Wilson) chronicles the fantastical life and spectacular death of this incredible seaside park. "Pacific Ocean Park: The Rise and Fall of Los Angeles' Space-Age Nautical Pleasure Pier" (Process Media; $34.95) tells the story of P.O.P. in words, but also lots of
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the prudes in Los Angeles had practically outlawed public dancing.) The book covers all of the salient details: the area's early 20th-century history (Moorish bathhouses, anyone?), its fall into seediness in the 1940s and its reemergence as a destination in the late 1950s, when P.O.P. opened its doors to tens of thousands of visitors and the national media. The park, which opened in the wake of Disneyland (which debuted in 1955), aimed for clean and wholesome family entertainment. It also embodied the latest in Modern design. In fact, an early rendering was created by the firm of Pereira & Luckman, the corporate architecture firm that gave L.A. so much of its iconic Modern look (including LAX and CBS' Television City). The final design, however, was eventually helmed by Fred Harpman, who had designed portions of Disneyland's Main Street, and had also put in time
watched the skate documentary "Dogtown and Z-Boys," which shows surfers nimbly riding waves under the gnarled carcasses of roller coasters, you've seen much the same thing.
pictures — as well as concept drawings, era silk-screen posters, postcards, vintage family snapshots and newspaper articles.
But when it opened in July 1958, more than half a century ago, Pacific Ocean Park — or P.O.P., as it came to be known — was the thing: an amusement park that married Venice Beach's kitschy seaside carnival culture with the space-age Modern architecture of the
have vague memories of a charred hulk sitting in the waters off the Venice/Santa Monica border, the book will serve as an enlightening ride through the history of Pacific Ocean Park. (Interesting fact: the reason everyone went to party in the seaside ballrooms of Venice in the first
The park, which covered a pier and some of the adjacent land where Venice meets Santa Monica, embodied everything optimistic about the 1950s. There were Googie-esque buildings — including a 60-foot starfish-like structure at the entrance — which combined the nautical with the space age. After the opening, one reporter described it as "a misty dreamland of timelessness, fantasy and
late 1950s.
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at the film studios. (He designed major sequences for the 1956 adventure flick "Around the World in 80 Days.”)
Kitschy seas de carnival c lture with sp ce-age And while it seemed then that P.O.P. might be a part of L.A. forever, that was not to be. The costs of creating and maintaining the park were astronomical. The public's thirst for new attractions meant continual redesigns, and the scenic location, on top of the roaring Pacific, had the salt air eating through all plaster, wood and steel at ridiculous speeds. A plan by a real estate development agency to clean up the area around the pier,
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FiRst Stepl CHase Park tearing down old bungalows and other vintage architecture to put up what they considered to be more respectable high
inhabitants as much as they served as grim symbols of state power or poor planning.
rises, tore up many of the roads leading to P.O.P., fatally hindering access. By August 1967, less than a decade after it had opened to so much fanfare, Pacific
Pacific Ocean Park, in many ways, was a mirror of all that. A funhouse mirror, but a mirror nonetheless. And definitely worth a look.
Ocean Park closed for repairs — and never opened again. It spent the next eight years rotting and catching fire (mostly from arson) as the cities of Los Angeles and Santa Monica
1862. When he was three years old his parents, Peter and Ellen Mahoney Tilyou, leased one of the huge 300 foot wide ocean front lots for $35 per year. On it they built the Surf House, a place serving food and renting bathing attire to visiting families. Thanks to Peter's father's political connections as a recorder in New York City, Surf House prospered and it and Coney Island became a favorite resort for Manhattan and Brooklyn city officials and their families.
and various state entities fought about who would be responsible for the mess. In the meantime, the site was occupied by the homeless and drug users, as well
George was a born promoter, even as a child. During 1876 when Coney Island was full of Midwest tourists who had come east to see the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition and wished to see a real ocean, George sold them cigar boxes full of "authentic beach sand" and medicine bottles of "authentic salt water" for twenty five cents each. His instincts, that gullible tourists would pay for something of no value if it had a price on it, proved correct as he earned $13.45 for his first day's endeavor. It seemed a fortune to a fourteen year old boy and he promptly retired with every intent of seeing the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition with his own eyes.
as a cadre of enterprising surfers who skillfully rode the waves as they broke through the derelict pilings. In paging through Merritt and Priore's photo-laden book, it struck me that P.O.P. serves as a pretty terrific way of looking at the ways in which we have embraced, then rejected Modern design. In the 1950s, Modernism, with its focus on industry — and in L.A. specifically,
Instead he took his profits and invested in a horse, borrowed another, and using driftwood constructed a makeshift stagecoach. The following season with a better vehicle he began transporting day-trippers from the boat landing at Norton's Point on Coney's west end to Culver Plaza in the middle of the island. Of course he encouraged his passengers to stop off at his father's Surf House as they passed. By the end of the season he owned six horses and two stagecoaches. His success attracted the attention of political boss John Y. McKane who decided to sell a franchise for
the Space Age — seemed full of promise, the solution for fixing all of society's ills.
the route. George saw what was coming and promptly sold all his assets while he was ahead.
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After growing up in Coney Island in the family's restaurant and bathhouse business, he decided in 1879 at the age of seventeen to stay and enter the profitable real estate business. Although at the time title to all land was firmly held by the town of Gravesend and was not for sale, there was a brisk and piratical traffic in leases and sub-leases. For example, it was common knowledge that one large lot on Ocean Parkway that was leased by one of the town's corrupt commissioners for only $41 per year, was sub-leased for $1000 per year to a woman who in turn leased part of her one-eighth for $4000 per year. For a budding young realtor who knew everyone, young Tilyou was netting $250 per month working out of an office constructed out of two attached bathhouses. His younger brother Edward became his partner. However, the real estate business bored George and he sought to become a showman by providing entertainment for the thousands of tourists that visited the Island. In 1882 when he was twenty, he and his father Peter built Coney Island's first theater, Tilyou's Surf Theater, along an alley that bisected the walk streets between Surf Avenue and the ocean. Performers like Weber & Fields, Sam Bernard and Pat Rooney appeared on its vaudeville stage. To make sure that audiences could easily make their way through a cluster of lager-beer saloons, clam bars and bathhouses, they paved the alley with wooden planks and called it Ocean View Walk. Since it was reminiscent of a notorious Manhattan street that had become synonymous with theatrical bright lights and immoral gaiety, it was dubbed "The Bowery" by Mrs. Newton, the mother of McKane's chief lieutenant. The name stuck. When a law was passed permitting the sale of Gravesend's common lands, George abandoned his dream of becoming an entertainment magnate for a lucrative career in real estate. He rented out his theater, concentrated on real estate and by 1887 he had become quite successful. But the Tilyous, both father and son, were reformers and were opposed to boss McKane's corrupt rule on both moral grounds and on the principle that it was bad for business. As a stubborn businessman George realized that McKane, by appointing ruffians and rouges as justices of the peace, by winking Tilyou's Ferris Wheel was 125 feet in diameter and its 12 cars each held 18 passengers.
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at prostitution and gambling, and by plundering the community by taking a cut of the action, he was offending decent folk everywhere. Tilyou wanted those decent folk as his customers. So when a New York state Assembly committee in 1887 investigated the crime and corruption at Coney Island, George stood alone and was the only Coney Island resident who dared to blow the whistle on John Y. McKane by singling out the most corrupt of McKane's henchmen. The area's crooked police chief ran the island as his private fiefdom, passed out political favors, allowed criminal friends to set up shop along the Bowery, and made important allies by leasing and selling the town's public lands at low prices to powerful businessmen who became indebted to him. When the politicians declined to prosecute McKane, Tilyou was forced to close his real estate business. His parents suffered too as McKane using guile and strong armed tactics cheated them out of nearly all their property. But when McKane was finally convicted and sent to Sing Sing in 1894 for voter fraud and fixing elections, George Tilyou returned. With Coney Island annexed by Brooklyn, George became the justice of the peace as a reward for cooperating with the Brooklyn reformers. The Steeplechase ride was a simulated horse race along a 1100 foot long course.
In 1893 George married Mary O'Donnell, and for their honeymoon they went to Chicago to see the World's Columbian Exposition. This was the world's fair that introduced a "midway" containing rides, shows and concessions separated from the rest of the largely industrial oriented fair. George was looking for an interesting amusement that he could bring back to Coney Island. Once he gazed upon George Ferris' gigantic 250 diameter steel wheel that suspended 36 cars, each holding 60 passengers, he knew that he had to buy it. It was a money maker that when full held 2160 people who each paid fifty cents to be transported high in the sky for a view of the fair as the ride rotated slowly. Unfortunately for George, the ride had already been sold to the promoters of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition to be held in St. Louis in 1904.
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Aug. 17, 1972: Photos taken on the last day of operation at Playland at the Beach. The amusement park in San Francisco was demolished the next month.
read. “The death rattle is carried in with the fog and San Francisco faces a future in which there is no park of the Coney Island persuasion.” Sent to document those final throes, Peterson took his time and displayed a wonderful eye, capturing the mood in every corner of the park. (Peterson worked at The Chronicle for less than a decade, but the 72-year-old continues to shoot photos.) Several of his images ran on a full page in The Chronicle on Aug. 18, 1972, with just two paragraphs of text. It was two paragraphs more than The Chronicle needed to
If you were born in the 1970s or later, the legend of Playland-at-the-Beach is one of joy and fun and a working-class San Francisco that newer generations never got a chance to experience. “It’s too bad that place isn’t still around,” is the consensus of those who never attended. But the reality is much more complicated than that, a fact made even clearer when viewing the memorably stirring photos taken by San Francisco Chronicle photographer Greg Peterson on Aug. 17, 1972, one of the last days that Playland was open to the public. The Chronicle has hundreds of photos of Playland spanning several decades, including the 1940s and 1950s, when the park was a thriving, colorful, family-friendly destination near Ocean Beach. By 1972, Playland was none of those things. Peterson’s photos show a just handful of attendees and employees, haunting the park that once drew 50,000 or more people in a weekend.
tell the story. The land had been sold to a condo-builder months earlier. After an auction that included everything from bumper cars to the weighted milk bottles used in the rip-off carnival games, the park was closed and quickly demolished.
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going to clear. The Chronicle had been down on Playland since the mid-1950s, when the city forced the park to close down its epic Big Dipper roller coaster. “Playland-at-the-Beach, which had been plucking at the coverlets for years, is now in the final throes of a notably prolonged terminal illness,” an Aug. 11, 1972, editorial
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It’s telling that at the time, there was almost no citizen movement to save Playland. This Aug. 25, 1972, letter to the editor from Chronicle reader Gerry Campbell comes the closest. 25
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Word: Coast Concept: Exploring the homes of both current and past roller coasters at famous shore water parks on the East and West Coast Table of Contents Coasters on the Coast Golden Age of Roller Coasters Designing the Ultimate Thrill Machine
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Holding on to the shore Toast of the Coast Coney Island State of Mind Santa Monica Pier: 100 Years of California Dreams Endless Summer Weathered Away We’ll Never Go There Anymore First Steeplechase Park The Rise and Spectacular Fall of Venice’s Pacific Ocean Park The Last Haunting Days of Playland
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where everyone is scheming a way to stay on the island.
What is the historic “California dream”— the one people still talk about today? How does California’s 21st-century reality differ from that dream? And what is the California dream of today and the future? Answering these questions, said Zócalo California and innovation editor Joe Mathews, is key to understanding this big, complicated state—and creating a shared story for today’s Californians. “We are way overdue for an assessment not only of who we are, but who we want to be,” said
Paradise, in today’s California, is more like Survivor,
nia for their ideas and dreams—and used their answers to offer such an assessment to a large crowd at Grand Central Market. The iconic California dream was of rapidly acquired middle-class wealth, said Mathews—and it is “older than the American dream, which is a slightly poorer cousin of the California dream.” The American dream was a Puritan dream of modest wealth, accumulated year by year; according to historian H. W. Brands, the California dream—following the Gold Rush— was one “‘of instant wealth, won in a twinkling by audacity and good luck.’” This dream was based partially in reality: Late-19th-century California offered high living standards and high wages, and California has a history
Mathews. Over the past two years, Mathews has written Zócalo’s “Connecting California” column, which appears in 30 media outlets across the state. He’s asked people in all corners of Califor-
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1907 The first high-speed coaster, Drop the Dip, opens in New Jersey. It is also the first coaster to use lap bars.
1910-12 The safety ratchet, or safety chain dog, that keeps cars from rolling backwards while going up a hill, and the under friction safety wheels are invented by John A. Miller, the designer of more than 100 coasters including Kennywood Park’s Jack Rabbit and Racer.
1920s The golden age of coasters. More than 1,500 roller coasters were operating in the U.S. alone.
1930s and 1940s The dark age of coasters begins as the Depression takes a toll on entertainment income and WWII makes building materials scarce. Hundreds of coasters would be torn down during this era.
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1955 Disneyland opens and a new era for amusement parks begins. In 1959, the park’s Matterhorn would be the first coaster to use tubular steel tracks, polyurethane wheels, and lightweight fiberglass cars.
1975 The first Corkscrew debuts in Cedar Point Ohio.
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of excellent public education and innovation. But the dream was also part “nonsense,” said Mathews. You couldn’t just grab a piece of property and be set for life. Profit and exploitation, boom and bust, have always come hand-in-hand here. So what is a more realistic dream in today’s California? “We are not a land of leisure,” said Mathews. California is a center of industry, technology, and work. This state is the opposite of its reputation for flakiness; scholars have found that California is one of the top places in the country for worker productivity. And the state attracts more venture capital in some years than the rest of the U.S. combined. California pays more in federal taxes, and gets back less in federal benefits, than virtually every other state. “The next time someone from out of state calls Californians flakes,” said Mathews, “you tell them that we’re the ones subsidizing your flakiness.” California is also a state of high poverty rates and middle-class struggle, with more than half of the
Megafobia, Europe's first wooden coaster designed by Custom Coasters opens at Oakwood Leisure Park in Wales, England. High Roller built atop the Stratosphere Tower in Las Vegas opens. Some consider it to be the world's highest build at 1,149 feet above the ground. Montu at Busch Gardens Tampa in Florida opens. It becomes the world's tallest Inverted roller coaster and the first to have seven inversions.
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1992 The first inverted roller coaster, where the track is above the rider, opens at Six Flags Great America, Illinois.
1996 Paramount’s King’s Dominion, Virginia, introduces the first liner induction motor, which eliminates the need for a lift hill.
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nation’s 50 most expensive real estate markets. California no longer attracts the young, poor, and ambitious, said Mathews—those people are leaving for other states. California is no longer a magnet for immigrants, either. The state’s immigrants are settled rather than being recent arrivals. Today, a majority of Californians are native-born. This means Californians are becoming more like one another—and as a result, “we are, dare I say, less sexy than we used to be,” said Mathews. Yet each California city and region still maintains a character separate from the rest of the state; it’s difficult to figure out what connects us to one another. The economy of the southern San Joaquin Valley, with its oil and gas production, seems a lot like Texas; economically, the Bay Area has more in common with Seoul and Boston than it does with Riverside. So how does one sum up all these regions and diverse communities? Mathews said that all of California’s major regions today are less a permanent destination or escape for people from around the world—and 1996 Fujiyama at Fujiku Highlands in Japan opens as the world's tallest (259-feet) coaster and features the world's largest drop (235-feet).
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Outer Limits, Flight of Fear, the world's first roller coasters to use a magnetic propulsion system (LIMs) to launch the trains open at Paramount's Kings Island and Paramount's Kings Dominion.
1997 Tower of Terror opens at Dreamland in Gold Coast, Australia. It becomes the world's tallest and fastest (100 mph) roller coaster. Superman The Escape at Six Flags Magic Mountain opens to become the world's tallest (415 feet) and ties for the world's fastest (100 mph) roller coaster. The first Vekoma designed Inverted Boomerang coaster called an "Invertigo" opens at Liseberg Park in Sweden. Alpengeist opens at Busch Gardens Williamsburg in Virginia. It opened as and remains the world's tallest (195 feet), fastest (67 mph) Inverted roller coaster.
1998 Monte Makaya opens at Terra Encantada in Rio de Janeiro and is the second roller coaster to have eight inversions.
Medusa the world's first Floorless roller coaster from Swiss designers Bolliger and Mabillard opens at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson, NJ.
Oblivion, the world's first vertical drop coaster from Swiss designers Bolliger and Mabillard, opens at Alton Towers in England.
1999 South America's first wooden roller coaster Montezum opens at Hopi Hari in San Paolo, Brazil.
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What are the major cultural differences between the east coast and the west coast of the US? With respect to general behavior and lifestyle, business culture, faux pas and so forth. Eddie Xu
The big things: Attitude to life. To over-generalize, west coast is chill, east coast is fast paced. Walking speed. People in the Northeast especially
walk super fast. Business culture. Showing up in dressed up mode is expected vs. casual=cool in LA/SF.
2000 Goliath opens (Feb) at Six Flags Magic Mountain. It features the world's largest drop (255 feet) and is the tallest (235-feet) and fastest full-circuit roller coaster in North America. Millennium Force opens (May) at Cedar Point. This Intamin "Giga-Coaster" stands 310-feet tall, and features a 300-foot drop and top speed of 92 mph. It becomes the world's tallest, fastest and largest drop for a full-circuit roller coaster. Katun at Mirabilandia in Ravenna, Italy opens and is the first B&M Inverted roller coaster on mainland Europe.
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2002 Bolliger and Mabillard unveil their first Flying coaster, Air, at Alton Towers in England.
Son of Beast opens at Paramount's Kings Island. It is the first wooden roller coaster to feature an inversion (vertical loop). It also debuts as the world's tallest (218-feet), fastest (78-mph) wooden coaster and has the world's largest drop (204-feet). 2000 Vekoma introduces the world's first Flying coaster, Stealth at Paramount's Great America in Santa Clara, CA.
2001 HyperSonic XLC, the world's first compressed air launched roller coaster opens at Paramount's Kings Dominion in Doswell, VA. It featured the world's fastest acceleration for a roller coaster at 0 - 80 mph in 1.8 seconds and the first over-the-top "Top Hat" element. It was also the first roller coaster designed by Utah based S&S Power.
Steel Dragon 2000 opens (August) at Nagashima Spaland in Japan and breaks the world records for height (318-feet), drop (307-feet), length (8,133 feet) and speed (95 mph) for a full-circuit steel roller coaster. Unfortunately, the ride closed after a non-fatal accident in 2003.
X designed by Arrow Dynamics opens (December 24, 2001) at Six Flags Magic Mountain. It is the world's first 4th Dimension roller coaster with independently controlled flipping seats.
Colossus opens at Thorpe Park in Surrey, England. It is the first roller coaster to feature ten inversions. Superman Ride of Steel, Europe's first "Floorless" roller coaster from Bolliger and Mabillard opens at Warner Bros. Movie World in Madrid, Spain. Xcelerator Intamin's first "Rocket Coaster" using a hydraulic launch system opens at Knott's Berry Farm in Buena Park, CA. The hydraulic launch system accelerates the trains from 0 to 82 mph in under 2 seconds.
Personality: San Franciscan: “So, I understand and honor where you come from here, and I can see how in some circumstances that you might feel that way, and...[20 minutes pass, the San Franciscan does not pause for breath nor start a new sentence]... but I’m not sure that, in the place where I’m in right now, I really completely feel the same way about it.” 2003 Top Thrill Dragster opens at Cedar Point in Sandusky, OH. The second Intamin "Rocket Coaster" debuts at the world's tallest (420-feet), fastest (120 mph) roller coaster. It also features the world's largest drop (400-feet). Vild-Svinet opens at BonBon Land in Demark and is the first roller coaster to feature an inverted drop at a 97-degree angle.
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Bostonian: “Dude, that’s stupid.” People on the west coast are more agreeable and outwardly polite. People on the east coast are more blunt. West coasters are more sensitive and “politically correct”. Dress. Hoodies, shorts and sandals FTW on the west coast. North Face, boat shoes,
2005 Kingda Ka at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson, NJ opens. Designed by Intamin this "Rocket Coaster" takes the honor of being the tallest (456 feet), fastest (128 mph) roller coaster in the world. It also has the world's largest drop (418-feet).
1400’s The first Russian Mountains appear.
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and pea coats rule in the Northeast. Old money. Slightly more prevalent on the east coast (think Hamptons type communities) Tipping. People on the west coast are incredibly lax about tipping standards, and people will not look at you rudely if you leave 10% or say “that’s normal” especially in a dim sum or buffet place. 15% is somewhat generous at sit down places. On the other hand in Boston, my friends and I have gotten into arguments with waiters several times, once because a tip was “15% pre tax not 15% post tax”, and another time because due to a difference of under $1 with 15%. People have gone on rants on how tipping under 18% or using coins is bad.
trying to jump the green to turn left, people not yielding for pedestrians (even in marked crosswalks) and people honking more - probably due to higher densities. Saving seats. People on the east coast call “fives” to reserve their seat for five minutes after standing up. Apparently seat jacking is more common. A lot of this is based to Northeast vs. California - I don’t know that much about places south of DC area, for
Driving. More aggressive on east coast, mostly due people
1400’s The first Russian Mountains appear.
1600’s First rides in France.
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I've never lived on the east coast of the US, but I'm from Ontario, the province north of New York, and find that US east coasters and I seem to understand each other easily. I now live on the west coast. For me, I found there to be more cultural differences between east and west than between the US and Canada. First, let me say that I really love the laid back nature of the west coast, and people's desire to be friendly and sensitive toward people's feelings. However, I found the communication style differences to be an adjustment. I had to figure out how to say what I needed to say in ways that didn't sound too strong or too direct. My natural tendency is to be somewhat blunt and direct, in a friendly and benevolent way. I find it to be the most efficient and effective way to communicate and deal
Emphasis on education and intellectualism in east coast over entertainment or making bank. Very rough.
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1817 The first wheeled rides are built in Paris.
1840’s The first looping coaster is built in Britain and exported to the Frascati Gardens in Paris. The loop has a 13-foot diameter and is at the base of a 43-foot tall drop.
with potential problems in the early stages. This works with most people even on the west coast, but occasionally it gets me into trouble. Occasionally you run into people who will take offense if you simply disagree with them, suggest a different perspective, tell them something important that they didn't want to hear, say something the wrong way, or speak out loud about the elephant in the room. I'm still figuring out how to improve my social skills with those types. It seems like a west coast/ east coast culture clash thing and that communication is just more open with east coasters, but I could be wrong.
Cherie Nixon
I'd love to hear the perspective of someone from the west coast, especially about the best way to communicate about important things that need to be brought out into the open. As a side note, I find that Europeans (especially Brit-
1873 The Mauch Chunk Railroad, Pennsylvania, USA becomes the first ride to utilise a complete circuit.
1884 The first switchback railway, the Switchback at Coney Island, New York, USA – is opened. This proved that the general public would pay for the experience of riding in a car down a wooden track. A few months later, the first switchback railway specifically built for amusement with a complete circuit was also opened at Coney Island.
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Here we see every shade of Coney Island’s weirdness: a photo by Eliza Rinn of two blueand-gold-sequin-clad Mermaid Paraders kissing in the surf; a painting by Keith Richard Griffiths of a fish with suspenders and a pompadour smoking a cigar; a photo by Bruce Handy of the annual New Year’s Day Polar Bear Plunge; and a painting by Kelynn Z. Alder of a goofy mutt named the “Coney Island Dog” (“fun in person!” it advertises). Inevitably, there are images of the “funny face,” a demonic figure with an evil grin and horn-like tufts of hair that once adorned George C. Tilyou’s Steeplechase Park. Today you can find the “funny face” all over Coney Island, serving as a kind of unofficial mascot. If you want to experience the distilled essence of Coney Island, “Sodom by the Sea” is the place to go. At the Brooklyn Museum, these decades are represented by the nocturnal visions of [Lawrence Ferlinghetti], who named his 1958 poetry collection after a passage from [Henry Miller]’s 1936 novel “Black Spring.” “Everything is sordid, shoddy, thin as pasteboard,” Miller wrote. “A Coney Island of the mind.” The final section of the exhibition runs from 1962, when the spacethemed amusement park Astroland opened, until 2008, when it closed. This final chapter is named after Darren Aronofsky’s movie “Requiem for a Dream,” which is partly set among aging residents of Coney Island, and which ranks among the most depressing movies in the recent history of American cinema. But the era of Coney Island’s nadir is best evoked in “Last
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15th century The Russian Ice Slides, the roller coasters greatgreat grandfather, premieres in St. Petersburg. People would ride blocks of ice down icy wooden ramps-some as high as 70 feet with a 50-degree angle.
Late 1700s The first wheeled coaster, consisting of gentle slopes, appears in St. Petersburg.
1827 The United States gets its first taste of the fun with the Mauch Chunk Railroad in Pennsylvania. A railway system developed to bring coal from the bottom of a mountain, it was turned into a 30-minute thrill ride with speeds topping 100 miles per hour. It still ranks as the longest coaster ride ever.
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As magical as Coney Island was, it could also be positively ghoulish. Beasts of the Southern Wild: The wooden carousel horses of the Steeplechase, carved by Jewish immigrant sculptors like Charles Carmel, took riders around a fixed track at 25 miles an hour.
Days of Coney Island,” a long-awaited movie by pioneering animator [Ralph Bakshi]. The exhibit focuses on 10 artists who worked at Coney Island, including visual artists Richard Eagan and Philomena Marano, co-founders of the Coney Island Hysterical Society; playwright Harvey Fierstein and set designer Bill Stabile, whose off Broadway play “Spookhouse” was inspired by the abandoned Dragon’s Cave ride; and Dick D. Zigun, a graduate of the Yale School of Drama and founder of Coney Island USA, whose dedication to the area has
1846 The first loop, the Chemin de Centrifuge, is built in Paris.
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1884 The first United States coaster is built at Coney Island, New York. Designed by LaMarcus Thompson, the gentle, six-mile-perhour ride was called the Gravity Pleasure Switchback Railway. Later that year the first continuous track coaster-ending where it began-was built.
Right now, on the bleeding edge of December, Coney Island is all over New York City. Just as the weather gets frosty and summer beach days recede from memory, the beach is suddenly everywhere. There’s a big exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum titled “Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland, 1861-2008,” which opened on November 20. There are smaller shows at the central branch of the Brooklyn Public Library, the City Lore gallery in Manhattan’s East Village, the Valentine Museum of Art in Flatbush and in Coney Island itself, at the Coney Island Museum. There is also “The Last Days of Coney Island,” a new movie by animator Ralph Bakshi, which was released on Vimeo at the end of October. As winter sets in and the temperature drops, all eyes turn to Coney. That seems appropriate, though. If it were summer, we wouldn’t be thinking about
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1885 The first switchback railway to use a chain lift opens in San Francisco, California, USA.
1887 The first scenic railway opens in Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA. The first ride with a figure-8 design opens at Haverhill, Massachusetts, USA.
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made him the unofficial “Mayor of Coney Island.” Works in the show include Eagan and Marano’s “25 Shoot,” a cut-paper work based on [Coney]’s original shooting galleries; a wax bust of Albert Einstein rescued by the artists from the now-defunct World in Wax Musée; and several pieces inspired by the Kensington Hotel, which was located underneath the Thunderbolt rollercoaster and was made famous in fictionalized form as Alvy Singer’s childhood home in “Annie Hall.”
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1885 The mechanical hoist is invented; cars are no longer manually towed to the top of the first hill.
1891 The first switchback railway in Europe opens in Blackpool, England.
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Does Coney Island have to mean anything, beyond what it obviously is? Coney Island - we would be at Coney Island. Instead of looking at art in a museum, we’d be roasting on the beach, riding the Cyclone, eating hot dogs until our guts burst. Only now, when those pleasures seem so abstract, do we stop and think: What does Coney Island mean? That might be an unnecessary question - does Coney Island have to mean anything, beyond what it obviously is? For generations of New Yorkers, from immigrant Jews and Italians living in Brownsville to current-day Park Slope parents, Coney Island is a beach you can get to by subway, with roller coasters to boot. Even if we’re not living three families to a ten-
1891 The first ride with a vertical loop is built. Due to excessive G-forces it closes soon afterwards.
1902 The oldest ride currently operating, the Leap-the-Dips at Lakemont Park, Pennsylvania, USA, opens.
1907 The Drop-the-Dips ride opens, with the first use of a lapbar restraint.
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In Loo of Coasters
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Drinks in the bathroom? Beats the alternatives...Toronto bartender Samantha Gibbon is trying to figure out how it will work once Ontario passes new legislation to allow patrons to take drinks into bathrooms. “Where would you put it?” Gibbon wonders as she holds an imaginary drink in one hand and tries to picture herself in the toilet stall of a bar. “You can’t squat and hold your drink at the same time.” The new law is designed to cut down on cases of date rape in which drugs are slipped into the drinks of unsuspecting customers, usually women. Similar laws are already in effect in B.C., Alberta and Saskatchewan. “You would put it on a ledge,” answers waitress Shannon Day, who’s on a break, eating chicken Caesar salad at the bar across from Gibbon. Day finds the idea of taking a drink to the toilet “unsanitary.” “Why would you hold your drink and pee?” she asks. “What if there’s no ledge?” says Gibbon, who, in theory, thinks the plan is “brilliant” and “necessary” but “gross.” “Then you put it on the floor.” “What if the bathroom floor is all wet with toilet paper?” “Well, I would suck it back, then put it on the Moor,” says Day. “You know what’s funny,” says Gibbon. “People leave the bar and they put a coaster on top of their drink like that’s going to protect them somehow. Then when they come back with their cigarettes and the coaster is still on top, they think it’s fine. You see that all the time!” Gibbon thinks drugging is so prevalent that any woman who goes to a bar without friends is “doomed.” “Remember when I had it slipped to me?” she says. “At a club I used to work at, I was drugged. I didn’t even realize. My boss
came and took me off the bar. He said, ‘What have you had to drink?’ I said, ‘Nothing.’ I went and sat with one of the bouncers for an hour, then all of a sudden I was overwhelmingly sick but I couldn’t throw up. It’s like I’d drunk 80 glasses of wine, but you can’t throw up and you can’t move. You’re like a bag. You can’t do anything.” Day was drugged, too, at a club. “I was told I was all over someone. I had a friend take me home. I was told, ‘You need to leave.’ I have no memory of it.” “Nobody wants to have to bring their drinks into the bathroom,” says Gibbon, “but nowadays you have to.” Coasters Let Students See If Their Drink Is Spiked
Halifax university hands them out to raise ‘date rape’ drug awareness HALIFAX- Saint Mary’s University (SMU) in Halifax is the first Canadian university to give out special beer mats or drink coasters that can tell if a drink is spiked. Although there are no official figures for Canada, spiking drinks with so-called “date rape” drugs is regarded as a major problem on campuses in the United States. According to a report by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, a subsidiary of the US. National institutes of Health, about 70,000 postsecondary students in the U.S. are victims of alcohol-related rapes or sexual assaults every year. “We don’t know how widespread it is here,” said Donnie Jeffrey, a counsellor with student services at SMU and a member of the campus DRAFT team (Drink Responsibly And Feel
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ales, stouts and the like. Promotion via coasters has morphed to suit each generation, and not just to publicize distilleries or breweries. Lori Dahl, a mixologist at Hotel Viking in Newport, Rhode Island, says the hotel is making new coasters that proclaim “Be Social at Hotel Viking.” Instead of pushing mixed drinks or desserts, drink coasters have now been elevated to proclaimers of social media handles. From One Tegestologist to Another The pulpboard that today’s common drink coasters are made of are available in different weights or thicknesses, and are ulti-
Be nice to your bartender! And
Was it a fussy housewife or a savvy designer who first thought, “Hmm, best find a place to set my sweaty drink upon”? Turns out, it was neither. In the 19th century, felt or pieces of fabric were used in pubs, not to soak up condensation, but to cover drinks and ward off bugs and dirt from those precious pints. The material was absorbent, but it was also reused, which wasn't exactly sanitary (high-efficiency washing machines having not yet been invented). A better solution was necessary. Friedrich Horn, a German printing company, gets the credit for developing the first disposable, cardboard, punch-out “beermats” circa 1880. Just a few years later, another German, Robert Sputh, patented his beermat made of a far more sturdy wood pulp. A more efficient production technique for beer mats began around 1900, and they were usually emblazoned with the printer’s name. It didn’t take long for eager early brewery marketers to start branding these handy surface-savers with advertisements for pale
your coasters! mately designed with the main goal of making a bartender’s life far less tedious. The thicker the coaster, the more moisture that’s absorbed, and the less need to clean up soaked, torn paper napkins. Coasters don’t automatically stunt the mess though. Dahl admits her pet peeve is “when people tear coasters apart and leave the mess on the bar.” Be nice to your bartender! And your coasters! But plenty of people have an appreciation for beverage coasters that goes beyond mere condensation catcher – they’re known as tegestologists, collectors of coasters. These avid coaster lovers may snag a coaster because of its historical or social significance. Others find the coaster hunt to be the best part of their tegestology practice. “My husband and I travel extensively and
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like that’s going to protect them somehow. Then when they come back with their cigarettes and the coaster is still on top, they think it’s fine. You see that all the time!” date rape drugs on campuses, but it is probably the single biggest health problem they have,” he said. “Rohypnol isn’t the problem since the manufacturers added a blue dye and made it hard to dissolve, but there are other drugs like GHB and compounds any bright kidand campuses are full of bright kids-could mix up in his room before going out.” GHB, or gamma hydroxybutyrate, is a central nervous system sedative often referred to by other names such as “Grievous Bodily Harm.” Most GHB used today is a homemade mix of chemical ingredients, including solvents. Homemade GHB is dangerous in part because there are significant differences in potency, purity and concentration. It can be made in liquid and powder forms, and since it is usually odourless and tasteless, it can be slipped easily into a drink. According to Guerra, ketamine is also used to spike drinks. Ketamine gained popularity for abuse in the 1980s, when drug users discovered that large doses cause reactions
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similar to those associated with use of phencyclidine (PCP), such as dreamlike states and hallucinations. Students at SMU think the simple test is great, especially since drinks sometimes are left unattended and unwatched. “We’re not allowed to take drinks into the bathroom at the campus pub,” said student Alison Baker. “Sometimes your drink sits on a shelf outside the door while you’re inside. So this is a great way to make sure it hasn’t been touched.”
“People leave the bar and they
Terrific), which won a national award in 1999 for its student alcohol awareness programs. “But we want students to be aware that there are drugs out there that can be slipped into drinks and make them vulnerable.” The university decided to include the cardboard coasters in the orientation pack given to all incoming first-year students. “We get the coasters from Florida and each one costs 40 cents American,” said Jeffrey. The man behind the coasters, Francisco Guerra, said there is a misconception that only females are at risk from the drugs-,and it’s not just sexual assault that’s the danger. Increasing numbers of men are being targeted for robberies and assaults after being drugged. One of the main appeals of the test for the students is simplicity. When word got out about the SMU initiative, other Canadian colleges and universities started calling the manufacturer, Drink Safe Technology. “The response from Canada has been phenomenal,” Guerra said. A successful special effects producer, Guerra decided to do something about date rape drugs after a friend was given a spiked drink at a business conference two years ago. “She ended up traumatized and with a sexually transmitted disease. Her husband divorced custody of the kids.” her and she even He said coming up with a simple test that shows whether something’s been added to your drink became his “good works” cause. He teamed up with a New Yorkbased dentist-Dr. Brian Gloverwho has a strong background in chemistry to fully develop the test concept. “Most universities and colleges in the States don’t want to talk about the prevalence of
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collect drink coasters from around the world,” says Pamela Braun of My Man’s Belly. “The majority are from beers we’ve tried so the coasters not only have meaning from where they are but also of an experience we've had.” One of their favorite coasters features a Belgian beer called La Chouffe with its adorable gnome logo. “We first had the beer at an out-of-the-way bar in Amsterdam and always look out for the little gnome, trying the different varieties of this brand in some of the countries we've been in. But we were only able to get the coasters in Amsterdam,” says Braun. With a coaster collection numbering in the hundreds, Braun and her husband stash most in a designated drawer but give their most beloved beermats a second life in – where else? – the bar area of their home. Bar manager of the Bit House Saloon in Portland, Oregon, Jesse Card tells the tale of an international airline pilot whose passion is finding obscure coasters. “He has thousands of them. His crown jewels are coasters from Belgian Abbeys and hard-toreach breweries in Japan. I asked him why he collected coasters instead of steins or the bottles themselves and he told me, ‘Simple – because the coasters are free.’” The title of master tegestologist, however, goes to Leo Pisker of Austria who The Guinness Book of World Records lists as having amassed a collection of over 150,000 different coasters from over 160 countries.
And, naturally, you can find quirky coasters, like a sliced-up Rubik’s cube, mini pallets, or toast-shaped platforms made of natural cork. A hardcore collector might even be able to whip out a coaster made of shotgun shells. While bar coasters are as ubiquitous as liquor – it’s estimated that close to 5.5 billion beer mats are produced annually in North America and Europe – there are plenty that give bar tops some frosting, whether by their unusual shape (a cloud or star as opposed to the traditional square or circle) or their printed message. From political ads to sporting event promos to public service announcements, drink coasters are an affordable advertising tool for any company, bar, or individual.
By the middle of the 20th century, beverage coasters tip-toed out of pubs and bars into domestic situations and now feature prominently in homes, whether ceramic, acrylic, felt, tempered glass, tile, silicone, or wood.
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Designing The Ultimate Thrill Machine
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During their heyday in the 1920s, roller coasters were crude, clanking con-
and do it all over again.
coaster can be traced as far back as
structions of steel and wood, and riders had to rely on lap bars and a strong
As frightening as they are, modern-day
the early 17th century in St. Peters-
grip to keep from being thrown from their seats. A combination of historic and
roller coasters are designed to provide
burg, Russia. It was there, in 1610,
economic factors caused roller coasters to decline in numbers from the 1930s
their passengers with the smoothest,
that an enterprising showman con-
to the 1970s. First, growing urban populations made trolley-park land valuable
quietest (except for the screaming),
structed a wooden slide over a wood
to developers, who purchased it to build suburban housing and businesses.
and safest ride possible. Engineers
frame to form a steep incline. He then
The Depression also took away the carefree spending habits of the previous
use computerized design tools to cal-
poured water over the structure in
decades. Fires, lack of maintenance, the onset of World War II, and the seedi-
culate the forces and stresses to which
the winter to coat it with ice. Patrons
ness of many amusement parks all contributed to the dwindling number of North
riders are subjected. Lightweight and
soon lined up to pay good money for
American Roller coasters - down to 147 by 1979. Roller coasters have come a
durable materials, specially designed
a terrifying ride down the ramp on
long way since then. With today’s computerized design techniques, electron-
restraints, and computerized controls
sleds, seated in the laps of guides.
ic controls, and modern materials, engineers are creating more daring - yet
are used to build roller coasters that
Legend has it that Empress Catherine
will give thrill-seekers the ride of their
the Great was so taken with the ride
lives without endangering them.
that she wanted to use it during the
This was not always so. During their
summer months. The first wheeled
heyday in the 1920s, roller coasters
cart was then developed to propel the
were crude, clanking constructions of
monarch down the slide.
steel and wood, and riders had to rely
Nearly 200 years later, the French
on lap bars and a strong grip to keep
began building what they called “Rus-
from being thrown from their seats. Yet
sian Mountains” around Paris. (When
despite well-publicized injuries and
modern roller coasters were devel-
even fatalities, the roller coaster, then
oped, Russians called them “American
as now, was the king of the amuse-
Mountains.”) Like their predecessors,
ment park. Indeed, the more terrifying
the French rides consisted of wood-
a reputation a roller coaster had, the
en towers that provided a continuous
more riders it attracted.
descent for wheeled passenger carts.
Starting Down the Slippery Slope
The straight-away design changed
According to Paul Ruben, the North
with the introduction of the first loop-
American editor of Park World mag-
ing ride, the Chemin de Centrige
azine, which covers the amusement
(Centrifugal Road), at the Frascate
park industry, the origins of the roller
Gardens in Paris in 1846.
Indeed, the more terrifying a reputation a roller coaster had, the more riders it attracted.
much safer - rides. According to the US Product Safety Commission, roller coasters cause only 1.5 deaths per year, out of more than 240 million roller-coaster riders. In addition to better safety restraints, other design changes, including the use of CAD, have made faster, scarier rides possible. It’s a familiar scene at every amusement park: People standing patiently in line, sometimes for more than an hour, filled with an odd mixture of trepidation and excitement, inching closer to the moment of truth. Then, after being strapped into their seats and subjected to a fist-clenching, head-spinning, stomach-churning ride, they step of, some exhilarated, others visibly shaken, only to get back in line
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“The ride’s owner would pass the hat
easier than walking it, so they put the
The Father Of Modern Roller Coasters
such a hit that by charging a nickel a
among spectators who paid to watch
mules in an empty car when the train
The popularity of the Mauch Chunk
ride, Thompson recovered his capital
his partner board a wicker carriage,
was sent down for unloading the coal
Switchback spawned a number of imi-
investment within three weeks.
not unlike a large baby carriage,
on barges.
tators. One such ride, built in 1887 in
Thompson is considered the father of
that rolled downhill on railway track
The idea of putting people instead of
Haverhill, Mass., had closely spaced
the modern roller coaster because he
through a 13-foot-diameter loop,”
mules in the cars soon followed. When
rollers on the side of a building to pro-
established the basic design used for
Ruben said. Other French looping
the Mount Pisgah mine was closed in
vide an incline. Although the ride was
years on wooden coasters. He went
rides built later included the Chemin
1873, the coal-car railway was con-
not profitable, it did give rise to the
on to build 24 roller coasters in North
de Amour (Road of Love). Passengers
verted to an excursion service. The
name “roller coaster” for the first time.
America and 20 more in Europe. With-
were strapped at their waist and feet
new line, called the Mauch Chunk
The first modern roller coaster, one
in a year of the debut of Thompson’s
inside a 7-foot diameter wooden barrel
Switchback, provided an hour-long
with undulating slopes, was the Grav-
Coney Island ride, two major improve-
and rolled down an undulating track.
scenic ride on an 18-mile-long fig-
ity Pleasure Switchback Railway, built
“In time, paying spectators of the Che-
ure-eight route. A single wooden car
by LaMarcus Adna Thompson in 1884
design. Inventor Charles Alcoke intro-
min de Amour outnumbered the rid-
that held up to 70 paying passengers
in Coney Island, N.Y. Thompson’s ride
duced the continuous circular layout
ers,” Ruben said.
on bench seats was pushed to the
consisted of two wooden towers, each
so that rides could start and end at
top of Mount Pisgah and rolled to the
45 feet high and 450 feet apart, con-
the same point. Also in 1885, Phillip
base of Mount Jefferson seven miles
nected with flat steel track laid over
Hinckle introduced the use of a pow-
away. The car was then pushed to the
five to seven layers of wood planks.
ered lift hill to bring the coaster cars
top of Mount Jeerson by a Barney car,
Riders climbed a staircase to the top
to the top of their drop, which spared
which in turn was pulled by a steam
of the tower, where they boarded a
the cost of paying workmen to pull the
engine. The train was then released to
single, 10-passenger car with flanged
cars to the top.
roll back to Mount Pisgah. Passengers
steel wheels and fixed axles. The car
Coney Island continued to be ground
could disembark on either mountain
was released and rolled down one of
zero for roller-coaster development
to enjoy the view, and return on the
two parallel tracks to the base of the
during the final years of the 19th
next car. Although the car reached
other tower. Passengers got out, and
century. Capt. Paul Boynton opened
speeds of 60 miles per hour on the
brawny workmen pushed the empty car
Sea Lion Park in Coney Island on July
home stretch and had no lap bars,
to the top of the second tower. Pas-
4, 1895, and its star attraction was
seat belts, or other safety restraints,
sengers once again ascended a stair-
the Flip-Flap, the first looping coast-
end of the day, the miners tried to walk
no one was ever injured on the Mauch
case to repeat the ride on the other
er in North America. A two-passenger
the mules down the mountain, but the
Chunk Switchback, which was in ser-
track. Although the work was strenu-
car rolled an intrepid duo through a
stubborn beasts refused. The miners
vice until 1938.
ous by today’s standards, the Gravi-
25-foot-diameter circular loop. The
ty Pleasure Switchback Railway was
forces of the ride were so severe,
ments were made in roller coaster
The public, in fact, held a morbid fascination for coasters with reputations as killers.
In the French rides, passenger cars were manually hauled by chain to their launching point and then released. The first powered ride was built in the 1870s from a former open-pit coal mine located at the top of Mount Pisgah, in Mauch Chunk (now Jim Thorpe), Pa., between Philadelphia and Scranton. When the mine was operating, mules hauled empty coal cars up a railed track, called the Mauch Chunk Railway, to the mountaintop, where the cars were filled with coal. At the
realized that riding down a mountain is
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To t h e s h o r e a t t a c h t h e
Angelinos themselves take the coast seriously as a public place, and they have striven to make it inclusive in practice.
In the public-space discourse Los Angeles is usually portrayed a s m o r e “ a n t i - c i t y ” t h a n c i t y. I t s l a n d s c a p e i s o v e r r u n b y
An article in the 25 August 2003 Los Angeles Times entitled
houses, “private-public” squares and plazas, theme parks,
“Malibu Civics Lesson” describes a confrontation on one of
optimism, hope, and shopping malls, and so on and lacks inclusive public places.
Southern California’s most famous beaches. The specific incident
Ye t t h i s d i s c o u r s e h a s e s s e n t i a l l y d i s d a i n e d t o c o n t e m p l a t e a
took place on a stretch of the Malibu coastline known as “Broad
major public space that contradicts its general thesis: the Los
Beach”,, which sits in front of a line of beachfront homes noted
Angeles coast. The coast is meaningful public place in two
for their celebrity owners. The incident involved a confrontation
specific senses. First, it symbolizes Los Angeles as a whole and
between a private security officer and a Malibu resident
t h e r e f o r e p r o v i d e s a b a s i s f o r r e g i o n a l p u b l i c i d e n t i t y. S e c o n d ,
over access to a particular part of Broad Beach. The event
Angelinos themselves take the coast seriously as a public place,
eventually escalated to involve the Los Angeles County Sheriffs
and they have striven to make it inclusive in practice.
g r a n d e u r o f t h e We s t a n d
Department. Such confrontations are not unusual in this area in that it has been a site of frequent conflict between homeowners and the beach-going public over disputed terrain. What made this particular event newsworthy was the fact that the incident
In the public-space discourse Los Angeles is usually portrayed
was instigated by sixty-four-year-old Malibu resident Sara Wan,
a s m o r e “ a n t i - c i t y ” t h a n c i t y. I t s l a n d s c a p e i s o v e r r u n b y
a member and former chairperson of the California Coastal
houses, “private-public” squares and plazas, theme parks,
Commission. The commission, which is given the general charge
shopping malls, and so on and lacks inclusive public places.
of nature
of regulating the development of California’s 1,100-mile-long
Ye t t h i s d i s c o u r s e h a s e s s e n t i a l l y d i s d a i n e d t o c o n t e m p l a t e a
coastline, takes as one of its responsibilities the guarding of
major public space that contradicts its general thesis: the Los
public access to the beach. Wan intentionally placed a blanket in
Angeles coast. The coast is meaningful public place in two
a n a r e a t h a t s i g n s i n d i c a t e d w a s p r i v a t e p r o p e r t y, a n d h e r a c t i o n
specific senses. First, it symbolizes Los Angeles as a whole and
had the desired result of provoking a reaction from the private
t h e r e f o r e p r o v i d e s a b a s i s f o r r e g i o n a l p u b l i c i d e n t i t y. S e c o n d ,
security guard, who warned Wan that she was trespassing.
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coast Coast
represent
This incident would seem like one of many such minor conflicts that occur along this beach
and others in Southern California, one t h a t
and the
the
of
particular claim. She explained, with appropriate documentation, that the situation at
Broad Beach was more complicated. She showed the officers that 43 of the 108
good
h a r d l y p r e c i s e l y, r e s o l v e d b y i n v o k i n g the California public-access law. But
California’s law is more difficult to enforce than are those of many other states
life
people
have
p r i v a t e p r o p e r t y. W h e n L o s A n g e l e s C o u n t y Sheriffs Department deputies arrived at
e a s e m e n t s t i e d t o t h e i r p r o p e r t y. S u c h easements allowed access on the inland side of the high-tide line from anywhere
associated this ambiguous territorial limit proved
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between 25 feet to the edge of the built
long
p r o p e r t y. O f c o u r s e , t h e p r i v a t e - p r o p e r t y warning signs do not indicate these deviations; the guards and deputies were apparently ignorant of them as well; and
the request of the security guard, they learned that even their training to apply
that
houses built along the sand had public
because it designates the high-tide line as the dividing line between public and
Utility
to he insufficient to counter Wan’s
c o u l d h a v e b e e n r e l a t i v e l y s i m p l y, y e t
sort
beach
with
the
city
few beachgoers have easy access to
the documents produced by a California Coastal commissioner.
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Week 8: Refining Book Concept
Unfortunately, I wasn't able to present my midterm to my class because I was out sick with carbon monoxide poisoning. So on top of being sick, I came into class without a direction picked yet for the next phase of my process. I was in need of some feedback before I picked one. To my surprise, it was suggested I combined the good elements from all three concepts into one book. I chose the grid set-ups of my second concept, where the content shifts across the page left/west to right/east. 44
Inspired by public transportation system signage, I used Helvetica for my pull quotes. I also included an editorial-inspired-by-roller-coasters-spread and the elements of text fading and breaking down by the end. 45
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While it wasn't perfect, I could see the grid system I'd started in week six activate the bottom of the page. During this week as I worked, I distinctly remember always making rolling motions with my hand to reminded myself of how I wanted the text to behave. I started seeing the relationship between the ups and downs of waves and roller coasters. 46
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Week 8
I loved the idea of the text losing its tint and fading off the page, but I didn’t want to just tack it on at the end of the book and I didn’t see it working throughout, so it was dropped.
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Week 9: Pagination
Inside Cover
Title
Title
Copyright TOC
TOC
TOC
Foreword
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Pagination
Works Cited
Works Cited
Notes on Design
Back Cover
It was during this week that I finally realized how to organize my content. In part because I finally finished gathering my content. I can credit the election for helping me solidify an editorial vision; things at the edges are the first to break off, and that can have a huge effect on what’s in the middle. 51
Week 10-11: First Full Book Mock Up
After weeks of unimpressive spreads and giving absolutely no indication as to what my book would look like, I created a very small mock-up. I wanted to create a soft cover coptic bound book because I wanted to the pages to literally wave in the hands of its reader. I also like that while signatures naturally flow and follow each other, a book of them can still lay flat on table to read.
"The coast is clear" with a fun, mildly depressing twist
During this period I could finally see my ideas coming to fruition. A typeface change for my pull quotes and an actual title gave the book a more nostalgic, bittersweet feeling. My dual-text grid system had reached a new level of difficulty and visual intrigue. I loved how only a few simple dramatically changed every spread without having to resort to overly done magazine editorial style pages. 52
A great article about the election and the middle of America solidified by "Weast" section. I realized though this made up word might look more like a typo than a clever conjugation.
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First Full Mock Up
This smaller text article had particularly long paragraphs, but I could break my system, so I made the pull quote break through instead.
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Week 10-11
These spreads use a sweet little move I loved, where the two blocks of texts from each page "crash on the shore" off the page by the end of the book.
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Week 12: Refined Mock-Up
I made a huge shift in this version: I switched out the smaller text typeface from a sans serif to a monospace and increased the leading. In my system, that mean I had to go through every single paragraph in every single small text article and adjust them accordingly to my rule that the height of the column is the length of one paragraph. (Makes sense to me, not sure if it does to anyone else.) I also tried wrapping the articles around the edges of the three columns but ended up deleting that move after this version. Having a little breathing room on a page was nice. 57
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I changed the inside cover material to create a fun moment where you’d want to flip back and forth to see which letters are missing inside.
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Refined Mock Up
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Refined Mock Up
I had this idea for the transition between West and W/East to "bounce" off the right edge and back into the middle, I decided to reduce the amount of different transition pages in each section overall.
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This move ended up being too complicated because there was so much movement in only so many page, so I scrapped it here
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Week 13: Cover Options
The Coast is Crum
The Coast i
s Crumblin
g
b
A Collection of Texts
ling Edited by Rachel Bender
A Collection of Texts
Edited by Rachel Bender
The Coast is T
Crumbling
H E Coast
A Collection of Texts Edited by Rachel Bender
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I
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Week 13
At the beginning of class this week, we all walked around looking at everyone's books. Because I am human and at times a bit competitive, I noticed that almost nobody was looking at my book. To be fair, it is small, only 6x9, and it's easy to overlook such a standard size in a sea of massive publications that my classmates were producing. But I realized they were judging it by its cover, which was not doing my book any favors because it was boring. I tried out a few different styles of type treatment, but I loved the first lock up I had made. I thought there had to be a way to use it but still draw in readers. And then, I had a less than profound thought about waves, tore two pieces of paper; I created a fun, interactive, rippled cover. 70
Week 14: Final Book
Is it too much to say I love my book like it's my child? It turned out so well! It took 3 hours to figure out how to print it, 3 hours to cut and score and pages to my painfully exact specifications and another 3 to sew the entire thing together by hand. I made so many friends in the printing lab and lab press on my physical production day, probably in part because I finished my book four days before it was due and wasn't overwhelming them. My notes from my last mock up involved creating simpler moments of transitions with less drawn out sections where text whole paragraph is moving to the left or right. 71
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Final Book
In the final section of the book, I used to pull quotes as a way to “push” my text off the page. It retains the intention of the first two iterations but in a way that doesn’t feel like a flip book.
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This was only my second time sewing a book together. The first time was when I did my mock-up. I’m a hard worker and I was determined to make this book structure be successful. I’m glad I was able to figure this out with relative ease.
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Designer Presentation: Lorraine Wild
Lorraine Wild
Rachel Bender Elyse Clark
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Designer Presentation
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Height of Fashion, 2000
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Looking at Los Angeles, 2000
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Catholic Tastes, 1993
Beat Culture and the New America, 2004
Rachel Bender Elyse Clark
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A Minimal Future? Art as Object 1958-1968, 2004
Budha Mind in Contemporary Art, 2004
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Designer Presentation
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Morphosis Diamond Ranch High School, 2001
Fresh Morphosis:1998-2004, 2007
Rachel Bender Elyse Clark
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Wack! Art and The Feminist Revolution, 2007
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Lorraine Wild “The typographer must know something about hierarchies of meaning. The world is a mess typographically. We live in a time where a degree of ugliness is allowed; designers have more tools and variety at their fingertips, but there is a lack of intention. Teaching design, one tries to convey to students the importance that one’s design mirror the meaning -- to keep the relationship between form and meaning alive. For young designers, typographic training is important because it is a crucial way to understand how meaning is conveyed in a culture.” Rachel Bender Elyse Clark
Lorraine Wild https://www.aiga.org/medalist-lorrainewild http://articles.latimes.com/2007/jul/01/entertainment/ca-design1 http://elupton.com/2009/10/wild-lorraine/ http://greendragonoffice.com https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JFkTBPWx60
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Fin.
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Final Thoughts One of my notes from my sophomore review last year was, essentially, "your craft is shit." And it's true I was not a talented at physically rendering books, so I took this semester to challenge myself and to prove my critics wrong. I made not only a book structure that was difficult, I made a system that was slightly insane and at times made me ask myself "was this a good idea?" I am beyond relieved this semester is over. I hustled to get this book done, and I'm glad I put in all the time, even if it only felt like I got kicked into gear during the last five weeks. I feel like I have something special now that could be produced again, if I wanted to, with little trouble. I was touched beyond belief that I was awarded "Best Concept" in our class show. I had been so worried the entire semester that nobody was going to understand what I was trying to do, but when all of the elements came together, people seemed to understand. More than that, they appeared to enjoy holding it in their hands. It was a satisfying sight. All right, time for bed. Cheers to the end of the semester!
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