Louisiana State University LSU Digital Commons LSU Master's Theses Graduate School 2006 Whaddya want? it's Coney Island!: tourism, play and memory in the illegible city Elizabeth Healy Matassa Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College,
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[email protected]. WHADDYA WANT? IT’S CONEY ISLAND!: TOURISM, PLAY AND MEMORY IN THE ILLEGIBLE CITY A Thesis Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of the Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in The Department of Geography and Anthropology By Elizabeth Healy Matassa B.A., the University of Delaware, 2003 May 2006 The city of Sophronia is made up of two half-cities. In one there is the great roller coaster with its steep humps, the carousel with its chain spokes, the Ferris wheel of spinning cages, the death-ride with crouching motorcyclists, the big top with the clump of trapezes hanging in the middle. The other half-city is of stone and marble and cement, with the bank, the factories, the palaces, the slaughterhouses, the school, and all the rest.