Tp on AB

This is the illustrious story of Tom Powell, the colorful, larger-than-life journalist who has spent more than 50 years traveling the world rubbing elbows with everyone from the President of the United States to Baseball Hall of Fame members and side show carnival freaks. For the past 30 years of his career, TP, as he is known today, has written for Amusement Business, the business-to-business weekly newspaper serving the carnival, fairs, arena, and amusement park industries. TP is the best-known, most-loved journalist to ever chronicle the outdoor amusement industry. During his unique career he has been compared to Bob Hope for serving as an ambassador of the industry; Dean Martin for his drinking persona; Jimmy Breslin for his reporting prowess; and to Babe Ruth for his physical girth. He is without a doubt the best-known, most-loved journalist to ever write about these leisure-time fun activities. His personality, his memory, and his ability to write from the heart made his weekly column, TP on AB a must read. Sit back and hear his colorful stories and share in his travels and adventures. TP on AB is an adventurous, wild and fun life journey. You'll love it!

TP on AB

Biographies & Memoirs

O'Brien, Tim R.

Professionals & Academics

Casa Flamingo LIterary Arts

This is the illustrious story of Tom Powell, the colorful, larger-than-life journalist who has spent more than 50 years traveling the world rubbing elbows with everyone from the President of the United States to Baseball Hall of Fame members and side show carnival freaks. For the past 30 years of his career, TP, as he is known today, has written for Amusement Business, the business-to-business weekly newspaper serving the carnival, fairs, arena, and amusement park industries. TP is the best-known, most-loved journalist to ever chronicle the outdoor amusement industry. During his unique career he has been compared to Bob Hope for serving as an ambassador of the industry; Dean Martin for his drinking persona; Jimmy Breslin for his reporting prowess; and to Babe Ruth for his physical girth. He is without a doubt the best-known, most-loved journalist to ever write about these leisure-time fun activities. His personality, his memory, and his ability to write from the heart made his weekly column, TP on AB a must read. Sit back and hear his colorful stories and share in his travels and adventures. TP's is an adventurous, wild and fun life journey. You'll love it!

Ward Hall ran across town and joined the circus for a part time gig in 1944 when he was a "kid" living in Colorado. A year later, as a 15 year old 10th grade dropout, he ran away for good, joining the Dailey Bros. Circus. He never looked back. By 16 he was performing in a sideshow and by age 21, he owned a sideshow! Today, 70 years later and countless circus and side show, vaudeville and burlesque house performances under his belt, Ward Hall is still in the business. Ward has worked with a monkey girl, a half-lady/half man, numerous fat men, countless sword swallowers, fire eaters, several giants, big snakes, big rats and little horses. He has mastered juggling, ventriloquism and the art of enticing thousands of curious onlookers to part with their money and go inside the tent of his world-famous sideshows. Ward has owned and operated sideshows, animal shows, magic shows, and illusion shows with such fashionable names as Magic on Parade; Wondercade: Aquarama water circus; Gladiators vs. Mankillers wild animal show; World Attractions; Sky High Circus; the Wonder Circus; the Pygmy Village; and the World of Wonders. He has exhibited the World's smallest woman, the World's tallest giant, and employed Pete Terhune, the mighty fire-eating dwarf for 55 years. In addition to owning or co-owning sideshows and circuses during his career, Ward has written four books, four musical stage productions, been in seven movies and more than 100 videos and TV specials, performed at Madison Square Garden and the Lincoln Center in New York City and has sung at Carnegie Hall. He is in the Hall of Fame of both the Outdoor Amusement Business Assoc. and the International Independent Showmen's Assoc. and is a member of the prestigious Circus Ring of Fame in Sarasota, Fla. Ward is the only person in all three of those halls of honor. Ward has operated the sideshow for many big time circuses, including: Ringling Bros. and Barnum &amp; Bailey Circus, the Toby Tyler Circus, the Al G. Miller Circus, Circus Vargas (where he was part owner of the circus for a while), Beatty Cole, and the E.K. Fernandez Circus. Ward Hall's title of King of the Sideshows is not a new or recent act of coronation, and as the ruler of his own little world of misfits and human anomalies, Ward's title isn't self-awarded, but is a judgment rendered by his peers. The year 2014 is the King's 70th year anniversary in show business. This is his story.

Ward Hall - King of the Sideshow!

O’Brien, Tim

Arts & Literature

Humor & Entertainment

Tony Baxter joined Walt Disney Imagineering when he was 22 years old and is among the first of a second generation of Disney creatives who fashioned the magic found today in Disney parks worldwide. He would stay with the company for nearly fifty year and today serves as a mentor and consultant to the new, younger generation of Imagineers. . Tony is credited for helping create such Disney attraction icons as Star Tours, Big Thunder Mountain Railroad, Splash Mountain, and the Indiana Jones Adventure. He has been lauded for his creative leadership at Disneyland Paris Resort, is a Disney Legend and has a personalized window on Main Street, U.S.A. in Disneyland Park, considered by many to be one of the highest honors a Disney employee can achieve. From ice cream scooper in 1965 to Senior Vice President of Creative Development in 2013, this is his story.

Tony Baxter: First of the Second Generation of Walt Disney Imagineers (Legends & Legacies)

Arts & Photography

Roller coasters took Dick Kinzel slowly to the top and a $1.24 billion acquisition ultimately lead to his direst years. During his 39-year career (25 as president and CEO) with Cedar Point and Cedar Fair parks, he built the world's first 200, 300, and 400-foot tall roller coasters. He is responsible for adding more than 35 multi-million dollar scream machines to the company's 11 amusement parks. It was he who delivered the first shot in the coaster wars of the 1990s when he built the Magnum XL-200, the first to top the 200-foot barrier. . He brought big, edgy and expensive coasters to Cedar Point knowing that the bigger the thrill ride, the bigger the crowds. He made sure Cedar Point remained the "Amazement Park" and the Roller Coaster Capital of the World. His story is one of tenacity, conservatism and risk taking. It's one of big business and one of fun making. Dick spent his life putting smiles on people's faces and fear in their eyes. For the first time his journey is told in full: from his highs and lows to the laughs and tears, this is the story of the man who brought more roller coaster to Ohio than any other man. This is the official biography of Richard L. Kinzel.

Dick Kinzel: Roller Coaster King of Cedar Point Amusement Park (Legends & Legacies)

As an orthopedic trauma surgeon at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Dr. Manny Sethi has cared for people across Tennessee who have been the victims of high-energy trauma. Many of his patients stood on death's door facing seemingly insurmountable challenges - but all somehow recovered and triumphed to live a full and complete life. For three years, Dr. Manny spent countless hours with eight of these remarkable individuals exploring with them the critical factors in their road to recovery and why they were able to beat the odds. Indeed, their stories are different, but the undeniable ingredients of recovery and healing are very much the same: faith, family, and the power of the community. In these uplifting and faith driven stories, Dr. Manny also shares his heartwarming past of growing up in small town Hillsboro, Tennessee, and his family's incredible pursuit of the American Dream. Dr. Manny narrates the powerful stories of these eight patients who came back from near-death experiences and were able to pursue their own dreams of success. As these trauma survivors open their hearts and tell of the struggle to find meaning in the midst of tragedy through their faith in God, Dr. Manny demonstrates that the same factors that lead to their recovery were vital in his own life and his pursuit of The American Dream in Tennessee. This renewal of courage and determination is a reminder of what has historically been the heart and soul of America’s greatness: its people.

The American Dream in Tennessee: Stories of Faith, Struggle & Survival

Religion & Spirituality

Sethi, Dr. Manny

Occult & Paranormal

As an orthopedic trauma surgeon at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Dr. Manny Sethi has cared for people across Tennessee who have been the victims of high-energy trauma. Many of his patients stood on death's door facing seemingly insurmountable challenges - but all somehow recovered and triumphed to live a full and complete life. For three years, Dr. Manny spent countless hours with eight of these remarkable individuals exploring with them the critical factors in their road to recovery and why they were able to beat the odds. Indeed, their stories are different, but the undeniable ingredients of recovery and healing are very much the same: faith, family, and the power of the community.
In these uplifting and faith driven stories, Dr. Manny also shares his heartwarming past of growing up in small town Hillsboro, Tennessee, and his family's incredible pursuit of the American Dream. Dr. Manny narrates the powerful stories of these eight patients who came back from near-death experiences and were able to pursue their own dreams of success. As these trauma survivors open their hearts and tell of the struggle to find meaning in the midst of tragedy through their faith in God, Dr. Manny demonstrates that the same factors that lead to their recovery were vital in his own life and his pursuit of The American Dream in Tennessee. This renewal of courage and determination is a reminder of what has historically been the heart and soul of America’s greatness: its people.

American Dream in Tennessee: Stories of Faith, Struggle, and Survival

Sethi, Manny

Hold on tight! 
“Always Cedar Point, a Memoir of the Midway” gives the reader an insider’s view of the operations of the world’s greatest amusement park, Cedar Point. From a summer as a 20-year old ride operator on the Frontier Lift to becoming the park’s general manager 35 years later, John Hildebrandt brings the reader inside the fascinating world of what it takes to market and operate a destination built for fun.
 Hildebrandt walked the midway every day for 40 seasons, talking to guests and employee. He collected a lifetime of stories. There is humor, history, disappointment, thrills, and excitement in his storytelling. And there are memorable people as well. Cedar Point truly is The Amazement Park.
The focus of the book is Hildebrandt’s relationship with the park’s most iconic attractions—its legendary collection of world class roller coasters—including Millennium Force, Top Thrill Dragster, Magnum, Maverick, Corkscrew, GateKeeper (to name just a few). As marketing vice president, it was Hildebrandt’s job to introduce these magnificent scream machines to the world. From how the coasters were named to thrilling first rides to the creation of memorable advertising campaigns, Hildebrandt gives the reader a unique perspective, including lessons learned.
“Always Cedar Point” is one of the best books yet written about life inside an amusement park. Part memoir, part history, part business brief, part autobiography, “Always Cedar Point” is also Hildebrandt’s love poem to a remarkable place, a nearly 150-year old amusement park and resort in Sandusky Ohio on the shores of Lake Erie.

Always Cedar Point: A Memoir of the Midway

Business & Money

Hildebrandt, H. John

Industries

Harrison "Buzz" Price was a true Disney Legend and his son David Price has now written the ultimate professional and personal tribute to his father and mentor. Part memoir, part consulting primer, and part love story, "Buzz Stories at Thirty Thousand Feet" contains stories written by those with whom he shared his intelligence, humor, passion and wit. It brings you closer to understanding the birth of an industry and a life lived The Buzz Way. Each chapter stands on its own as a tribute to a well-rounded, intelligent, one-of-a-kind pioneer who saw numbers not only as the means to an end but as a portal to magical worlds of entertainment . Known as Walt Disney's "Numbers Guy," Buzz created the magic formulas for where to build both California's Disneyland and the later, Walt Disney World in Florida. It was his "rollercoaster math" that made building a successful theme park possible, in an age before real theme parks existed. Everyone who ever knew Buzz has countless stories to tell of their relationship. Some are sad, some are funny, some are enlightening, and some are not suitable for print. But all show the brilliance of the man and help explain why he is today recognized as the dean of entertainment attraction consulting. This volume is an entertaining and informative read about the life and times of Harrison Buzz Price.

Buzz Stories at Thirty Thousand Feet

Travel

Price, David A.

Specialty Travel

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TP on AB

Tp on AB

Ward Hall - King of the Sideshow!

Ward Hall - King of the Sideshow!

Tony Baxter: First of the Second Generation of Walt Disney Imagineers (Legends & Legacies)

Dick Kinzel: Roller Coaster King of Cedar Point Amusement Park (Legends & Legacies)

The American Dream in Tennessee: Stories of Faith, Struggle & Survival

American Dream in Tennessee: Stories of Faith, Struggle, and Survival

Always Cedar Point: A Memoir of the Midway

Buzz Stories at Thirty Thousand Feet