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n early twentieth-century New York, few could have imagined a train terminal as grandiose as Pennsylvania Station. Yet, executives at the Pennsylvania Railroad secretly bought up land in Manhattan’s infamous Tenderloin District to build one of the world’s most spectacular monuments. Sandhogs would battle the fiercest of nature to build tunnels linking Manhattan to New Jersey and Long Island. For decades, Penn Station was a center of elegance and pride. But the ensuing rise of the airplane and automobile began to diminish train travel. Consequently, in the mid-1960s, the station was tragically destroyed. The loss inspired the birth of preservation laws in the city and the nation that would save other landmarks like Grand Central. Author Paul Kaplan recounts the trials and triumphs of New York’s Penn Station.
NEW YORK’S ORIGINAL PENN STATION
New York’s Greatest LOST L AND MAR K
Paul M. Kaplan
New York’s Original
PENN STATION The Rise and Tragic Fall of an American Landmark
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Dear Bookseller, One year ago, in partnership with the ABA, we launched YourTown, a program to make it easy for indies to make sure they have the ideal assortment of hyper-local books specific to their stores. We’ve been gratified by the response, as indie bookstores across the country have been requesting and receiving a Store Match which provides a list of the perfect 16 hyper-local books for any particular indie store. Now, we are excited to be adding two very distinct publishers of local titles to the Arcadia family – Wildsam, which publishes local “field guides” for the new millennium, and Pelican Publishing, which has been publishing books about New Orleans, Louisiana and the surrounding region for almost 100 years. As we look ahead, we could not be more pleased to be partnering with indie booksellers to advance our mission: to connect people with their past, with their communities and with one another. Thank you for all of your support.
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YourTown Store M Arcadia's proprietary YourTown Store Match service provides a complete assortment of titles, unique to your particular store, based on a highly detailed understanding of the local area you serve, and drawing on the more than 15,000 local interest titles published by Arcadia Publishing and The History Press. It ensures the right books about the right places are selected for your particular store. For a complimentary YourTown Store Match service and to order: Contact your sales representative, retailers@arcadiapublishing.com or 888-313-2665
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Composed in a unique pictorial format with over two hundred vintage images and accompanying captions, Arcadia books animate the cherished memories, people, places, and events that define a community.
SELEC T SER IE S IMAGES OF AMERICA BLACK AMERICA SERIES•CAMPUS HISTORY IMAGES OF MODERN AMERICA•IMAGES OF RAIL IMAGES OF SPORTS•LEGENDARY LOCALS POSTCARD HISTORY SERIES•PAST & PRESENT
Publishing varied and dynamic titles complete with rich archival materials to illuminate each text, History Press books are useful resources for research and preservation. Each book is infused with abundant local color and aimed at a general readership.
his tour of Memphis goes well beyond the traditional guidebook to offer a historical urney through the Home of the ues. Explore the city’s African merican heritage from Church rk to beautiful Mason Temple, here Dr. Martin Luther King delivered his final, prophetic eech. Visit Court Square, where young Thomas Edison delighted ildren and adults with his pular invention: the cockroach ocker. Discover hidden gems like e nineteenth-century dueling grounds on the banks of the Mississippi d a charming Depression-era country store. From Beale Street to the uffs, author Bill Patton traces the incomparable history of Memphis.
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he Motor City boasts a long and sordid history of scoundrels, cheats and ne’erdo-wells. The wheeling and dealing prowess of founding father Antoine Cadillac is the stuff of legend. Fur trader and charlatan Joseph Campau grew so corrupt and rambunctious that he was eventually excommunicated by Detroit’s beloved Father Gabriel Richard. The slovenly and eccentric Augustus Brevoort Woodward, well known as a judge but better known as a drunkard, renamed himself, reshaped the city streets and then named them after himself, creating a legion of enemies along the way. Local historian and creator of the Prohibition Detroit blog Mickey Lyons presents the stories of the colorful characters who shaped the city we know today.
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B I L L PA T T O N
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A HISTORY LOVER’S GUIDE TO MEMPHIS & SHELBY COUNTY
BEALE STREET AND BEYOND
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Wildsam uses unrivaled local knowledge and soulful storytelling to reveal the marrow of the world’s great place and sheds light on the lesser known, the complex, the real things that lead people into a depth-finder style of travel. More akin to Kerouac’s notebooks than traditional guidebooks, Wildsam celebrates the mysteries and magic of discovery found both near and far.
SELEC T SER IE S FIELD GUIDES INCLUDING: AUSTIN, BROOKLYN, CHARLESTON, DENVER, DETROIT, LA, NASHVILLE, NEW ORLEANS, PORTLAND, SAN FRANCISCO, ROAD TRIP GUIDES INCLUDING: AMERICAN SOUTH, DESERT SOUTHWEST, NEW ENGLAND Both the city series and road trip series explore via prose and personalities, mixing together historical anecdotes, local interviews, literary memoir and hand-drawn maps, all in service of a deep understanding of place.
Since 1926, Pelican Publishing Company has been committed to publishing books of quality and permanence that enrich the lives of those who read them. In the ninety-three years since publishing William Faulkner and William Spratling’s Sherwood Anderson and Other Creole Characters, Pelican has continued to push the perceptions of Southern publishing while remaining focused on stories of interest to generations of readers.
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