Magic-City
Magic-City was an amusement park near Pont de l'Alma, two blocks east of the Eiffel Tower, in Paris from 1900 to 1934.[1][2][3]
A large dance hall at 188 rue de l'Université in Paris was located in Magic-City. The venue was known for its "drag balls".
Brassaï, who photographed the events, wrote of an "immense, warm, impulsive fraternity" at Magic-City, saying "The cream of Parisian inverts was to meet there, without distinction as to class, race or age. And every type came, faggots, cruisers, chickens, old queens, famous antique dealers and young butcher boys, hairdressers and elevator boys, well-known dress designers and drag queens..."[4]
Magic-City was closed by the authorities on February 6, 1934,[5] and in 1942 the building was bought by the government and turned over to Paris-Télévision, which began broadcasting there in 1943.[6]
Gallery
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Algerian tirailleur (soldier) at Magic City.
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La Cascade, 1913.
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Ferris wheel, 1913.
Notes
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- ↑ Magic City - Paris 7e Constructions détruites
- ↑ Magic-City
- ↑ L'encyclopédie du Tango - Magic City
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- ↑ Tamagne, Florence, A history of homosexuality in Europe, Algora Publishing, 2004, p. 51.
- ↑ matelevision.com, "Quelques dates," http://www.matelevision.com/date1.htm.
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