1923 Polo Grounds 3D

[bkhockey3]

Worked on the bleachers.

[RfkFedEx]

It must have been miserably hot in the upper rows of the OF. Can't imagine sitting up there in a sell out crowd at peak capacity when it's 95+ in late July. Sipping bourbon from a flask sucking down Lucky Strikes was pretty much the norm. Wearing a wool suit wouldn't have made it much better. To think that people found it relaxing. A daycation for the working man. lol

[bkhockey3]

rfkfedex-------prohibition back then--wonder if everyone carried flasks and if cops were at games looking to bust people.

[J.E.Fullerton]

Sanborn Fire Insurance map, "W.C." confirms restroom interpretation:

[RfkFedEx]

rfkfedex-------prohibition back then--wonder if everyone carried flasks and if cops were at games looking to bust people.

I think just about anybody who wanted to drink back then drank as they pleased, regardless of the law. The cops at the game were probably so few and far between, I doubt they cared about people drinking from a flask, unless someone was totally off the wall wasted.

Kinda like smoking grass at a dead show. You wouldn't blow smoke in a cops face, but its not like the NYPD combed the stands looking for vice.

[JOVE23]

Sanborn Fire Insurance map, "W.C." confirms restroom interpretation:

It looks like it also confirms that the right field lower deck ends at the support column, see "Section A-A." It also seems to give a measurement of 71 feet top to bottom.

EDIT: Do you have a higher resolution of that image, JF? It seems there's lots of little measurements on it.

[bkhockey3]

rfkfedex-------not sure about NYPD these days--accidently brushed a cop with my shoulder walking by him in the subway and the fu<kin guy started giving me sh!t about it. Chip may be snding me his CAD files and if so, things are gonna really start to develop. Here's where I'm at---am sre will have to move some of the metalwork, but that's no big deal.

[bkhockey3]

Oops--before I forget----what material was the upper facade--the new one.not the original ornate one?

[bkhockey3]

Also. looking forward-----any blueprints or good shots of the seats?

[JOVE23]

Oops--before I forget----what material was the upper facade--the new one.not the original ornate one?

The blueprint with the facade says "Plaster on #24 Hy-Rib." It might be Hy-Rib then?

[JOVE23]

Also. looking forward-----any blueprints or good shots of the seats?

This is from 1952 but it may help:

maglieseats.jpg

[bkhockey3]

JOVE23---those railings seem a bit thick don't they. Will google HyRib and see if there's referrence.

[Lpeters199]

Steps in the left field wall:

[bkhockey3]

Plaster on metal.

[JOVE23]

This is from 1913, looks like old fashioned (shock) chairs. I don't know if these were the same chairs in use in 1923:



Here is the LOC tiff: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/master/pnp/ggb...400/14482u.tif

EDIT: This is from the 1923 construction shot. It might be our best bet to definitively identify the type of seating. We may have to use the TIFF image:

1923seats.png