Going Out: The Rise and Fall of Public Amusements - Paperbackby David Nasaw (Author) David Nasaw has written a sparkling social history of twentieth century show business and of the new American public that assembled in the city's pleasure palaces, parks, theaters, nickelodeons, world's fair midways, and dance halls. The new amusement centers welcomed women, men, and children, native born and immigrant, rich, poor and middling. Only African Americans were excluded or segregated in the audience, though they were