When The Laughter Dies Away

Lulu Publishing has its drawbacks, as I have said, but also has its advantages and one is getting out any book I want, on any topic, without delay.  I have done a load of stuff here, on a variety of subjects, simply because I wanted to preserve the data in book form, where no one else has written about certain things of interest to me.

When The Laughter Dies Away is orderable only online and at some book signings or lectures I do. It is  not on wrestling, but on fallen amusement parks.

The book may be found at http://www.lulu.com/content/9835595 in book and e book form.

The project is not fancy, just like my blogs here are not elaborate, but that data is unique.

The defunct amusement parks listed remain scattered around the country. Idora Park, Euclid Beach, Rocky Point, Summit Beach, Meyers Lake, Six Gun Territory, Jesse James Village, Apacheland, Mother Goose Land, Janzten Beach, Legend Cit and  Ross Allen';s Reptile Farm are some of them.

There are some wrestling ties.

The Apacheland chapter deals at length with Eddie Sullivan and Cowboy Bob Kelly making a short film in this park and movie set, called Gunfight in Tombstone

The Legend City section covers Phil Melby wrestling at the Phoenix Madison Square Garden on Friday nights and donning cowboy garb to work as a "train robber" on the weekends.

More for nostalgia buffs than wrestling fans, perhaps, When The Laughter Dies Away looks at an era of fond memories that have all but evaporated. In this book, they live again.