Shea and Citi Field postcards

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

I've been having fun writing about bad postcards at work and on Facebook, so I started writing about good ones instead on the blog.

http://metsguyinmichigan.blogspot.com/2011/08/shea-still-remains-at-least-on.html

Now, I've found several Shea postcards over the years, but Citi has been elusive. Has anyone ever seen one?

Here are some of my favorite Shea postcards, and the rest are one the blog if you are interested.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

I don't collect these things but have the 2nd one pictured somewhere.

[Fman99]

God I loved the stupid blue and orange rectangles at Shea when I was little. My earliest memories at Shea are seeing the stadium from the parking lot, probably 1976 or 1977 this would be.

[Guest themetfairy]

Fman99 wrote: God I loved the stupid blue and orange rectangles at Shea when I was little. My earliest memories at Shea are seeing the stadium from the parking lot, probably 1976 or 1977 this would be.

I loved them too.

[Benjamin Grimm]

When I own the Mets and knock down Citi Field to build a Shea replica, you can be sure the blue and orange shingles will be part of the design.

[MFS62]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: I don't collect these things but have the 2nd one pictured somewhere.

That's the only one I have, too.
And I can't remember where I left mine, either.
Later

[Ceetar]

I feel like I have a Citi Field postcard somewhere.

I wonder where it would be.


edit: I do. the front's okay but the back is a little messy. You see..I..took some free pudding outside Citi Field one day and forgot to eat it..and when I next grabbed the bag to go to a game, it'd leaked..

[Gwreck]

Check out the 3rd one and how the seats filled. They sold out the Upper Reserved but nobody wanted to pay to sit in the upper boxes.

The last one is from the glorious 2006 season but I can't tell which game.

[Willets Point]

I like how the second one features the sylvan, suburban subdivision of Willets Point.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Willets Point wrote: I like how the second one features the sylvan, suburban subdivision of Willets Point.

The illustration in that second post card was an artist's rendering of Shea Stadium, imagined before it was actually built. During the Polo Grounds years, that image was circulated at many press conferences and press releases concerning Shea's imminent construction. The illustrator probably ran out of paint before he could render the chop shops and junkyards.

Benjamin Grimm wrote: When I own the Mets and knock down Citi Field to build a Shea replica, you can be sure the blue and orange shingles will be part of the design.

You don't have to worry about a thing if I should happen to buy the Mets before you do. I'm with you. I never met any Met fan who didn't love those shingles. If the owners were in tune with us, they might've homaged the blue and orange panels into their new stadium. But they were instead, too preoccupied ensuring that that big stupid 42 would display in that stupid rotunda for a Dodger.

[Guest Edgy DC]

One thing I note between the artist's drawing and the actual photo is that the concourse seems like it was supposed to be wider. The roof over the concourse in the illustration clearly extends further out from the top of the seats than it does in the photograph.

[Frayed Knot]

Gwreck wrote: Check out the 3rd one and how the seats filled. They sold out the Upper Reserved but nobody wanted to pay to sit in the upper boxes.

Well, yeah, those seats were like an extra dollar or two!

[batmagadanleadoff]

metsguyinmichigan wrote:

[Guest Edgy DC]

I'd like to see the Mets get the leftover World's Fair structures and incorporate them into the stadium complex.

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

Edgy DC wrote: I'd like to see the Mets get the leftover World's Fair structures and incorporate them into the stadium complex.

I realize there's a reason why ballparks tend to face the way they do, but if Shea had been able to face south --meaning the horseshoe opening offering a view, the scene would have been the magnificent Unisphere, which I love. Had the open end faced north, we could have viewed the bridges. East would have afforded the Manhattan skyline.

Instead, for all those years, we got to look out over Queens.

[G-Fafif]

I'm pretty certain Sammy Serval paid off a few city commissioners to get it to face downtown Flushing.

[Frayed Knot]

G-Fafif wrote: I'm pretty certain Sammy Serval paid off a few city commissioners to get it to face downtown Flushing.

Sammy pooled his money with the cash his friend Russ had made from his togs shop.

[ashie62]

themetfairy wrote: Fman99 wrote: God I loved the stupid blue and orange rectangles at Shea when I was little. My earliest memories at Shea are seeing the stadium from the parking lot, probably 1976 or 1977 this would be. I loved them too.

First thing I saw on thw Whitestone Bridge.

[ashie62]

Frayed Knot wrote: Gwreck wrote: Check out the 3rd one and how the seats filled. They sold out the Upper Reserved but nobody wanted to pay to sit in the upper boxes. Well, yeah, those seats were like an extra dollar or two!

That and you felt you might fall to your death.

[G-Fafif]

Peter Richmond, who literally wrote the book on Camden Yards, doesn't care for Citi Field, MFYS III or whatever the New Meadowlands Stadium will eventually be called.

It's not just that Citi Field looks backward; it looks backward through a fractured lens, as if it had been conjured by a freshman at RISD armed with some stadium-design software, a book of old-ballpark postcards, and 48 hours' worth of meth. The brick fa�ade pays homage to Jackie Robinson's Ebbets. The porch in right pays homage to long-gone Tiger Stadium. The seat color pays homage to the Polo Grounds and Willie's Giants, for christ's sake. Remember Mickey Rivers' assessment of Reggie Jackson? "No wonder you're all mixed up. You got a white man's first name, a Spanish man's second name and a black man's third name." That's Citi Field.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Architecture with multiple influences and reference points is somehow a scandal?

Let's pick teams. You pick Rivers, I'll pick Reggie.

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

http://metsguyinmichigan.blogspot.com/2011/08/postcard-tour-first-bob-then-chase-but.html

Next on the tour is Arizona.

[Ceetar]

again, apologize for the pudding stains. I took this out of the Delta Club. It's 2011 Opening Day.

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

That's cool!!!!

Here's the next one in the series I'm working on: