The Forty-Deuce

The Forty-Deuce
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Publisher : powerHouse Books
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 1576875784
ISBN-13 : 9781576875780
Rating : 4/5 (84 Downloads)

Synopsis The Forty-Deuce by : Hilton Ariel Ruiz

In the 1970s and 80s New York was internationally renowned for its seedy underbelly; the world capital of leisure, luxury, and sin. And the epicenter of New York vice, hands down, was 42nd Street-Times Square-a.k.a. the Forty-Deuce. On any given night on the Forty-Deuce you could take in the latest blockbuster, B-movie, or skin flick; cop drugs or cop a feel. A playground for the perverse, as well as a destination for thrill-seekers and partiers from every borough of New York City and beyond, Times Square was the electric heart of the city that refused to sleep. The Forty-Deuce: The Times Square Photographs of Bill Butterworth, 1983-1984 is a series of photographs capturing a gritty, glamorous, and authentic old-school New York, well before Mickey Mouse took over Times Square and scrubbed it clean. Curators and editors Beatriz and Hilton Arial Ruiz have collected and preserved the work of local street photographer Bill Butterworth, and have drawn from his work to create a revealing portrait of the Forty-Deuce, inside and out-capturing the unique street life and street style of the era, but also drawing us deeper in, to the peep shows, sex shops, backroom brothels, dimly lit arcades, and low-budget theatres where the action happened. In the tradition of Jamel Shabazz's classic, Back in the Days, The Forty-Deuce showcases the early-80s style of New York's first b-boys, out on the town and dressed to impress, but it adds some sin to the mix, with the Deuce's own slick pimps, strung out hustlers, and the spandex and leather clad prostitutes, strippers, and trannies that worked 42nd Street nightly, and defined it for years.

The Deuce

The Deuce
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Publisher : Baker Books
Total Pages : 304
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ISBN-10 : 9780800759605
ISBN-13 : 0800759605
Rating : 4/5 (05 Downloads)

Synopsis The Deuce by : F. P. Lione

A New York City cop deals with stress on the job, family problems, alcoholism, and a new partner. Will he find happiness and peace before it's too late?

Tales of Times Square

Tales of Times Square
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 1932595287
ISBN-13 : 9781932595284
Rating : 4/5 (87 Downloads)

Synopsis Tales of Times Square by : Josh Alan Friedman

The classic account of New York City's sleaziest district returns with seven new chapters.

Deuce!

Deuce!
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 132
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ISBN-10 : 057884320X
ISBN-13 : 9780578843209
Rating : 4/5 (0X Downloads)

Synopsis Deuce! by : Ken Gross

A colorful and captivating book examining Bruce Meyer's passion for hot rods, featuring eight iconic '32 Ford Hot Rods from his renowned automobile collection. Author Ken Gross combines cultural history, technical specifications and an aesthete's sensibility to narrate the story of hot rodding's evolution from lawless to legitimate, and explains why the "Deuce" hot rod resonates so strongly with Bruce.In addition, Chip Foose offers an expert's insight on the 1932 Ford's styling cues and hot rod legend Alex Xydias provides the foreword.DEUCE! features many historic images, as well as modern studio shots by Peter Harholdt.

Nicky Deuce: Welcome to the Family

Nicky Deuce: Welcome to the Family
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Publisher : Yearling
Total Pages : 178
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ISBN-10 : 9780307488787
ISBN-13 : 0307488780
Rating : 4/5 (87 Downloads)

Synopsis Nicky Deuce: Welcome to the Family by : Steven R. Schirripa

It’s July, and Nicholas Borelli II’s parents are scheduled to spend two weeks on a cruise. Nicholas will spend those two weeks, as he does every summer, at Camp Wannameka. The night before he’s to leave, however, there’s a phone call: thanks to an explosion in the septic system, camp is canceled. The only place for Nicholas to go instead is to his grandmother’s house in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, New York. Nicholas’s father grew up in Brooklyn, but you’d hardly know it. An Italian dinner at Nicholas’s house in the suburbs is whole wheat pasta, organic tomato sauce, and, if he’s lucky, a tofu meatball. And Brooklyn? Well, Brooklyn is the place his father left and never talks about. Nicholas has never been there, and he doesn’t want to go now. But when Nicholas tastes his grandma Tutti’s meatballs for the first time, gets a nickname from his uncle Frankie, and makes a friend in the neighborhood, his feelings about Brooklyn–and family–begin to change.

Deuce

Deuce
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Publisher : Motorbooks
Total Pages : 224
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ISBN-10 : 9780760353059
ISBN-13 : 0760353050
Rating : 4/5 (59 Downloads)

Synopsis Deuce by : Mike Chase

Ford's classic '32, equipped with a behemoth engine and modified for speed is everything a hot rod should be. They certainly don't make 'em like this anymore. We're talking about the car that launched the hot rod subculture: Ford's 1932 Deuce. With its stylish lines, timeless grille, and flowing fenders, Ford's Deuce coupe pretty much defines the term "hot rod." The breadth of creativity this classic design has inspired for generations of hot rod builders is on full display in Deuce. Ford's '32 was an immediate hit. By 1931, the Model A was obsolete in a marketplace where drivers wanted more style and power. The design goals for the '32 Ford could be summarized as "more": more cylinders, more horsepower, and more style. The resulting car achieved its objectives and then some. It was faster, more comfortable, more refined - a masterpiece of industrial design, yet still affordable. Henry Ford and his design team got it right. As the Deuce transitioned to the used car market, it drew the attention of those with a need for speed. Stripped down with an emphasis on performance, the Deuce became the bedrock of the burgeoning hot rod movement. To this day, it very much defines what a hot rod should look like. Hot rodders took Henry's master stroke to a whole other place, and Deuce stands as a tribute to their ongoing ingenuity.

The Fords

The Fords
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Publisher : Encounter Books
Total Pages : 426
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ISBN-10 : 9781893554320
ISBN-13 : 1893554325
Rating : 4/5 (20 Downloads)

Synopsis The Fords by : Peter Collier

The Fords: An American Epic is the dramatic story of three generations of Fords and of the dramatic conflict between fathers and sons played out against the backdrop of America's greatest industrial empire. The story begins with Henry I, the mechanical wizard, tinkerer, and mad genius who drove the automobile into the heart of American life and conquered the world with it. But in the end he became an embittered crank who so possessively loved the company he built that when his son, Edsel, tried to change it to suit the times, Henry destroyed him. It was left to Edsel's son, Henry II, to avenge him and save the Ford Motor Company. From the details of Henry I's illicit affair, which produced an illegitimate son, to the life and loves of Hank the Deuce and his celebrated feud with Lee Iacocca, this is an engrossing account of a vital chapter in American history. The authors have added a new preface to this now classic work, showing how Henry II's line lost out to the line of his brother William Clay Ford in the quest to control the company in the twentieth century.

Nicky Deuce: Home for the Holidays

Nicky Deuce: Home for the Holidays
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Publisher : Delacorte Press
Total Pages : 210
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ISBN-10 : 9780307488770
ISBN-13 : 0307488772
Rating : 4/5 (70 Downloads)

Synopsis Nicky Deuce: Home for the Holidays by : Steven R. Schirripa

If you ask Nicholas Borelli II--better known as Nicky Deuce--winter in New Jersey is awfully boring compared to summertime in Brooklyn, where he had the best two weeks of his life. Now it's cold out, he's back in school, and he has to live without Grandma Tutti's home cooked Italian meals and Uncle Franklie's funny tough-guy attitude. But not for long! Nicky's father is throwing a New Year's Eve party and the whole family is going to stay at their house and the gang from Brooklyn is coming to visit. By Christmas, Nicky's home is brimming with Brooklyn accents. Grandma Tutti wastes no time taking over the kitchen while Uncle Frankie charms the neighbors and cousin Tommy beats up Dirk Van Allen, the biggest jer in the neighborhood. Suddenly Tommy becomes a local hero but he and Nicky also become the prime target of a bully's revenge. Nicky Deuce is about to find out that winter in New Jersey is anything but boring.

Double Deuce

Double Deuce
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 126
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ISBN-10 : 9781101546505
ISBN-13 : 1101546506
Rating : 4/5 (05 Downloads)

Synopsis Double Deuce by : Robert B. Parker

Spenser is forced by loyalty into an alien world where violence is a way of lie and outsiders enter at a lethal risk. When Spenser's cohort, Hawk, is hired by the tenants of a gang-plagued Boston housing project known as "Double Deuce", he enlists his friend's aid. A friend's girl and her infant daughter have been gunned down. Though the act at first appears to be an accidental drive-by shooting, it soon becomes clear that it was premeditated murder. Before they can solve the crime, Spenser and Hawk must take on an adolescent band of hardened urban warriors. As bullets fly and the brutality escalates, Spenser learns more than he ever dreamed about a generation imprisoned in a hell of poverty and hopelessness where muscle is the ticket to survival, and the surest way out is in a body bag. Pulsing with moral complexity, Double Deuce is the kind of no-holds-barred action thriller only Robert B. Parker can create.

The Deuce

The Deuce
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Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Total Pages : 188
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ISBN-10 : 9798888128879
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (79 Downloads)

Synopsis The Deuce by : William Quinn

About the Book The Deuce takes a humorous look at New York City in the late nineteen seventies to remind us how we’ve changed since then. The story also examines how life in a crowded urban environment might shape the people who live there as it follows the romance of a young man with his latest girlfriend, and his reluctant romance with his first boyfriend. About the Author William Quinn is a third-generation New Yorker, but after escaping New York himself, likes to write about the city that’s been bred into him, and the people that city produced.