1. GILDED AGE – ARTS/ENTERTAINMENT/LEISURE
Leisure Time
Urban Dwellers
Various forms of entertainment
Amusement Parks
Coney Island
Shell Rd. – 1824
Elites visit
By 1870s – becomes more diverse
East side – elite
West side – working class
By 1890s – bathhouses controlled entrance to beach
Beginning of amusement parks

5. Elitch Gardens
Vaudeville
Unrelated performances - animal tricks, music, freaks, comedy, magicians, one act plays, minstrels
Distinguished from “variety shows”
No alcohol, family oriented

7. Dime Museums, Carnivals, Circuses
P.T. Barnum
Began in NY as showman with Joice Heth
Opens American Museum in 1841 – very successful
Museum burns down in 1865
Rebuilds in new NY location, burns down in 1868
Turns to the Circus
First circus to travel by train
Purchases his own train
Travels around the world

9. Baseball
Play begins in 1840s
1868 – Cincinnati Red Stockings
1876 – National League
1901 – American League
1903 – 1st World Series

11. NATIONAL LEAGUE
Boston Beaneaters (now Atlanta Braves)
Cincinnati Reds
New York Giants (now San Francisco Giants)
Brooklyn Superbas (now Los Angeles Dodgers)
Philadelphia Phillies
Pittsburgh Pirates
Chicago Orphans (now Chicago Cubs)
St. Louis Cardinals
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Boston Americans (now Boston Red Sox)
Baltimore Orioles (now New York Yankees)
Philadelphia Athletics (now Oakland Athletics)
Washington Nationals (now Minnesota Twins)
Cleveland Blues (now Cleveland Indians)
Detroit Tigers
Chicago White Stockings (now Chicago White Sox)
Milwaukee Brewers (now Baltimore Orioles)

12. “High Culture” - next