Yankee Stadium [I] (1923 - 1973)

[Cool Papa B.]

I was watching the movie "Bang the Drum Slowly" last night. These are pics of OYS probably 1973 when the movie first came out. Sorry for the quality. I used my camera phone.

[jnakamura]

Mickey Mantle Day




Old Timers day - late 60s.

[NYFan1stYankFan2nd]

jnak:
If only there's a way to get those clips into our mp3 players so we can sit in the stands with them and loop them while watching the game. I've got a pocket speaker that blasts - on just one double-A battery. I'd love to see the reactions of the younger fans around me while playing that Old Timer clip and the one of DiMagg at Mickey Mantle retirement. LOL!

BTW what is the song that starts rolling at 2:07 in the OldTimers video?

[Aviator_Frank]

BTW what is the song that starts rolling at 2:07 in the OldTimers video?

"Love is Blue" played by the Paul Mauriat orchestra. Very popular in the 60's

[NYFan1stYankFan2nd]

Thanks! Aviator, my music tastes are more eclectic than what they've thrown together across 161st street! I can go from "Love Is Blue" to "Poker Face" to "Bring it On Home" to "Gold Digger"(Kanye W) to "Longfellow Seranade"(Neil Diamond) faster than Ruth touchin 'em all!

[Lpeters199]

1962 Old Timers Day at OYS:

[Aviator_Frank]

NYFan, I'm an old Lawrence Welk fan myself, but don't tell anyone

[NYFan1stYankFan2nd]

Vee now br-ring you our next performance . . vone, two, th-r-ree!

[locke40]

NYFan1stYankFan2nd

jnak:
If only there's a way to get those clips into our mp3 players so we can sit in the stands with them and loop them while watching the game. I've got a pocket speaker that blasts - on just one double-A battery. I'd love to see the reactions of the younger fans around me while playing that Old Timer clip and the one of DiMagg at Mickey Mantle retirement. LOL!

BTW what is the song that starts rolling at 2:07 in the OldTimers video?

Last edited by NYFan1stYankFan2nd; Yesterday at 06:39 PM.

NYFan1stYankFan2nd, go to keepvid.com to download any youtube clip you wish. I have the video of the last Giants football game at the Pre-Renovated Yankee Stadium on my iPhone. I love watching that clip. "High up in the Bronx, beside the Harlem River, a rich American tradition was about to become an historical artifact."

[BSmile]

Not sure if these have been posted before...but here ya go:

[RfkFedEx]

Has there ever been a thread about Osborn Engineering here on BF?

I'd love to know more since OE seemed to rule the world of stadium design for decades.

[SultanOfWhat]

Thanks, BSmile. Those are very nice additions.

[nymdan]

"being built at 167th St.?" Hmm...

[BSmile]

"being built at 167th St.?" Hmm...

Haha...yeah, the old wire photos are notoriously wrong for dates/facts/spellings.
Some are simply typos...many are just bad info.

[SultanOfWhat]

1936 WS, from Flickr:









http://www.flickr.com/photos/2236076...n/photostream/

Another 1936 WS pic, from net54baseball.com:

[Gehrig27]

Wow, great finds Sultan. It's not often we get to see shots this old from a fans perspective.

[NYFan1stYankFan2nd]

Can someone please link or repost those color photos of - ostensibly - the last time football was played In YS right before she was closed for renovations in the early 70s? There were at least two and they were taken from the grass with fans walking on it leaving after the game. Does anyone remember what photos I'm talkng about? For the love of me i don't know what thread they were posted in - Pre-renovation, Demolition, the Frieze? My memory has left the building!

[SultanOfWhat]

Haven't seen this high angle for Lou G Day before:





Dec, 1966:











Not sure if this is the type of football pic you want:

[baseballman1243]

Haven't seen this high angle for Lou G Day before:

Wow it kind of takes the dramatics out of it all. Amazing shot though!

[SultanOfWhat]

Another view of about the same moment:

[NYFan1stYankFan2nd]

Thanks but no. The ones I'm looking for were taken along the RF foul line facing Home. You could see the curve of the frieze behind Home and fans dressed in their 70s best! I believe they were taken in fall of 71 or 72, at the end of a Giants football game. Ive searched every YS-related thread on here and they must've been taken down.

[SultanOfWhat]

NYT article regarding first night game (played May 28, 1946), from ebay:











Old sign:

[AC/DC2005]

The top photo of Yankee Stadium shows the new bleachers which were built in 1937, when center field was shortened to "just" 461 feet (actually more like 450 to dead center field), so that photo could not have been from the 1936 World Series. Perhaps 1937, 1938, 1939, 1941, 1942, or 1943.

[SultanOfWhat]

The top photo of Yankee Stadium shows the new bleachers which were built in 1937, when center field was shortened to "just" 461 feet (actually more like 450 to dead center field), so that photo could not have been from the 1936 World Series. Perhaps 1937, 1938, 1939, 1941, 1942, or 1943.

No, that's not correct. The new bleachers were actually constructed in 1936:


June 1, 1936 replacing the old wooden center field bleachers with concrete and steel, as the new left field bleachers near completion


June 15 1936 view from the newly completed left field bleachers looking at construction on the center field and wooden right field bleachers


July 15 1936 1st game of a Wed Double Header vs Detroit; work continues on CF bleachers, begins on RF bleachers..


July 17 1936 construction on the right field bleachers with a view of the right field stands that end at the foul pole. Note the right field outer wall and ramps


August 31 1936 with the new concrete and steel bleachers completed fans watch the Yankees vs. White Sox as work starts on the right field stands


September 17, 1936 view from the playing field of the right field stands as they remove the bench style seating (There seems to be some dispute about the bold part. As the Yankees had clinched the pennant by this date [the season would end in ten days, on Sep. 27, and the Yankees wound up winning the pennant by 19.5 games], the team would have been preparing the bleachers for the World Series. In the pic immediately above, they were apparently installing temporary bleacher seats, knowing that they would have to be removed in 5 months when the RF grandstand extension began. This seems wasteful, but we have pics of the beginning of the 1937 RF extension that clearly show bleacher-style bench seating, below.)


March 1 1937 work resumes on the right field stands

Similar pic:




Bonus pic:



Therefore, the putative 1936 WS pic seems to be correctly labeled. I'll try to compare the outfield wall ads vs 1937-1941 for more proof.

The 1937 renovations involved the aforementioned extension of the RF grandstand (March 1-August 16, 1937). I posted similar pics of that renovation earlier in this thread.

[genop]

great pics guys keep em coming.

Found this Don Larsen ad. So how soon do you think we will see Jeter in one of these ads

http://www.advertisingarchives.co.uk/