Shea Stadium: 1941 version

[Benjamin Grimm]

This might be more easily read on your phone if it has better zoom capabilities than your browser.





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[MFS62]

They'll build that one right after they build the football stadium on the west side of Manhattan.



Later

[Benjamin Grimm]

Well, they did build this one, just with a scaled down design and twenty-three years later.

[Edgy MD]

I like in concept, but the two sliding shells would waste way too much space when not deployed.



I'd like to see a design with two canopies that open in a fan style, like the canopy of a baby carriage, and meet in the middle.



See the shade canopy on this thingie, multiply its dimensions by about 250 or so, then imagine another meeting it from the opposite side.





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Cooley High, right?

[ashie62]

Use for six pageants at 100k attendance per



It talks about Cleveland's Municipal stadium just breaking even and the LA Memorial stadium raking it in at 100k attendance for baseball

[Benjamin Grimm]

If you look at the itemized list under NEW YORK'S ALL-WEATHER STADIUM PRESENTS, it shows that the plan was to only play 15 regular-season baseball games there each year. (I don't know if that's 15 total, or 15 each for the Yankees and Dodgers. I also don't know why the Giants weren't included in this.)



So they wouldn't have been building this for the Yankees or Dodgers, it just would have been available for them to play some showcase games each year. Yankee Stadium and Ebbets Field would still have been their primary homes.

[ashie62]

The baby buggy stadium is cool



First concert would be the "Baby's"

[A Boy Named Seo]

Cool find. Funny that the selling point to the Johnny Lunchbuckets of the world is that the average cost for an event would be a buck, but I can't imagine how shitty and far-removed from everything the cheapest seat in a 160,000 capacity stadium would be.

[ashie62]

How about 150k there for a Billy Graham crusade

[whippoorwill]

50 cents to park

[Edgy MD]

I don't know what's more of a journalistic coup: Referencing the expertise of Curly Lambeau or speculating that New York might be able to land The International Milk Convention.

[Benjamin Grimm]

A Boy Named Seo wrote: Cool find. Funny that the selling point to the Johnny Lunchbuckets of the world is that the average cost for an event would be a buck, but I can't imagine how shitty and far-removed from everything the cheapest seat in a 160,000 capacity stadium would be.

Yes, that's true, but remember, this was before television, so thoset shitty far-away seats would be the only way to actually see the event.

[Frayed Knot]

There was the line about the decidedly non-basball-shaped L.A. Coliseum, where the Dodgers played for their first few years on the west coast; that it had room for 100,000 spectators but only two outfielders.

[Benjamin Grimm]

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https://sabr.org/journal/article/a-home-like-no-other-the-dodgers-in-l-a-memorial-coliseum/A Home Like No Other: The Dodgers in L.A. Memorial Coliseum

[Edgy MD]

As a young cop in the early sixties, my dad got assigned to work boxing matches at Yankee Stadium and Polo Grounds. Well within the age of television. I couldn't imagine how badly I needed to see live pugilism that I would grab an upper deck spot at The Grounds.



Dad described directing traffic on the Macombs Dam Bridge (or maybe the 145th Street Bridge), and when traffic thinned out, figuring he'd mosey on up to Yankee Stadium to see if he could catch a bit of the bout of the top of the card. As he reached the entrance, an angry crowd was pouring out after what I guess was something like a first-round knockout, and he had to do his career fastest mile to get back to the bridge.

[Benjamin Grimm]

That 160,000-seat stadium obviously never got built, but the idea lingered, and the site was, as most of us know, proposed by Robert Moses to Walter O'Malley as the location for a new stadium for the Dodgers. That too, never happened. MFS62 may want to avert his eyes from this article, from 1957.



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[MFS62]

I was drawn to it like a moth to a flame.

Later

[kcmets]

Edgy is much older than I remembered. Working with Dick Young all

the way back in 1957 is very impressive!

[Edgy MD]

That's pretty funny.

[Willets Point]

My grandfather, a NYC employee, had unpleasant things to say about Robert Moses.

[Benjamin Grimm]

I'm sure he wasn't alone in that.

[MFS62]

Willets Point wrote: My grandfather, a NYC employee, had unpleasant things to say about Robert Moses.

My aunt worked for him in the office of the NY World's Fair and had the same opinion.

Later

[Willets Point]

You just couldn't say those things too loud or you might end up with a highway routed through your house.

[MFS62]

Willets Point wrote: You just couldn't say those things too loud or you might end up with a highway routed through your house.

It didn't help to work for him. The house where my aunt lived was torn down to build the Clearview Expressway.

Later

[Willets Point]

Damn!