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PostPosted: Thu Oct 07, 2021 11:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

According to the item description, this rare, vintage "BASEBALL" roller sign/box came from the Queens area......

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/354658539386962831/
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 08, 2021 1:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

This nostalgic photo shows a Milwaukee Old Look (bearing a dash placard reading: "BRAVES BASEBALL SPECIAL", with "STADIUM" displayed on the roller curtain, and carrying pennants (fare: 15 cents!) Wink

http://www.pinterest.com/pin/505106914450005752/
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 08, 2021 3:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

......too bad our highly-esteemed (and highly knowledgeable!) friend Mr. "L." is not here with us; I'm sure he'd be interested in that "BASEBALL" roller sign (too bad that the sign description only states that it was from the Queens area....

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PostPosted: Fri Oct 08, 2021 4:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

.......I'm wondering, now, if there was ever a "STADIUM" or "YANKEE STADIUM" reading on FACCo/SURFACE roller curtains; I know that I've never seen any such reading displayed on any of the vintage photos I've seen.....

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PostPosted: Fri Oct 08, 2021 5:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Though we've seen this timeless late 1950's scene at Yankee Stadium a number of times before, I wondering if any of the routes that stopped/terminated/started here might have reference to the stadium on their roller curtains.....

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?157008

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PostPosted: Fri Oct 08, 2021 7:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 wrote:
.......I'm wondering, now, if there was ever a "STADIUM" or "YANKEE STADIUM" reading on FACCo/SURFACE roller curtains; I know that I've never seen any such reading displayed on any of the vintage photos I've seen.....

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If any roll signs listed "YANKEE STADIUM," five'll get ya' ten they'd all be for Surface routes. Apart from 1924-28 FACCo had zilch presence in the Bronx, and NYCO's only venture into the Bronx was the Bruckner Boulevard-Astoria Boulevard wing of the TB route. And I'm referring to pre-1956, pre-Fifth Avenue Coach Lines taking over Surface.
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 08, 2021 10:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

W.B.:

Thanks: I had totally forgotten that FACCo. had only a brief stint in da Bronx; regarding that "BASEBALL" roller curtain in the link I posted, any clue as to what company might have used it (sign description ssaid it came from the Queens area).....

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PostPosted: Sun Oct 10, 2021 11:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

"STADIUM SOLITUDE" (1972)........

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?154054

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PostPosted: Sat Oct 16, 2021 11:26 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

..........it's important to remember, that, on this date back in 1969, Mets fans TRULY had a need to celebrate....(!!) Very Happy Very Happy Very Happy

"GO METS!" Very Happy Very Happy Very Happy Very Happy

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NEW YORK OMNIBUS 2629 wrote:
..........it's important to remember, that, on this date back in 1969, Mets fans TRULY had a need to celebrate....(!!) Very Happy Very Happy Very Happy

"GO METS!" Very Happy Very Happy Very Happy Very Happy

"NYO"

Just as, in early 1969, 'Noo Yawkers' who were more in a "feetsball" (terminology courtesy Ernie Kovacs) frame of mind had reason to celebrate when the Jets came back winners of Super Bowl III. And for years they too played at Shea.

But keying in to my "seesawing" remarks, in 1969 the Yankees finished fifth in the AL East with an 80-81 record. (And the football Giants were also in the wilderness in this period - 7-7 in 1968, 6-8 in 1969. And the Jets never came close to topping that 1969 peak.)
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 18, 2021 5:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

W.B.:

As much as you and I both loathed transit graffiti, these two (subway car) photos are right on topic......

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?115819

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?115820

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PostPosted: Tue Oct 19, 2021 1:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

There's no graffiti adorning these cars.....yet........

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?39040

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PostPosted: Tue Oct 19, 2021 1:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

......and, just a few years later...... Sad

https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?4078

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PostPosted: Mon Dec 06, 2021 1:03 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

.......FINALLY, the late, great, legendary Gil Hodges is on his way to Cooperstown (too bad he's not going by bus!) Wink

A LONG, LONG overdue honor for the great Gil Hodges (RIP).......

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PostPosted: Tue Dec 14, 2021 2:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

The Man and the Legend......

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gil_Hodges
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