Monday, May 16, 2022 – I KNOW LITTLE OF BALL FIELDS AND LET’S SEE WHO CAN NAME THESE

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CAN YOU IDENTIFY THESE FAMOUS BALL PARKS?
ANSWERS TOMORROW.

MONDAY, MAY 16, 2022


677th Issue
 

CAN YOU IDENTIFY

THESE   BALLPARKS?

WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

RIHS PROGRAMS AT THE NYPL

Enjoying Chandigarh

Ellen Jacoby, Gloria Herman, Wendy Erb, Sumit Kaur, Judy Berdy and Danielle Shur enjoyed
Sumit’s presentation at our NYPL branch on Thursday.

FROM READERS

Coney Island was still connected to the rest of the city by trolley cars until the early 1950s, I can attest to, because that’s how we got to the Coney Island beach (I think for a nickel at that time, or possibly a dime).
I learned from this article who our neighborhood movie theater, the Culver theater, was named after.  I suppose no connection to Culver City, California.
As for Kenneywood amusement park, in 1990, when our daughter, Amber, was in high school in Pittsburgh, that was the go-to amusement park for school trips in June.  Our neighbor’s son was a life-guard at Kenneywood in the 1990s.
Susan

Armani at 5th Ave and 56th Street
Stephen Blank is so valuable to RIHS I’m rooting for the Pitt Penguins to beat the Rangers tomorrow
M Frank

MONDAY PHOTO OF THE DAY

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WEEKEND PHOTO OF THE DAY

THE NOW LONG GONE STEUBEN SHOP
AT 5TH AVENUE AND 56TH STREET

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Jaap Harskamp

Jaap Harskamp, PhD at Amsterdam University (Comparative Literature), Researcher at European University Institute (Florence), Curator Dutch & Flemish Collections at British Library (retired), Researcher at Cambridge UL. His work has been published by Wellcome Institute, British Library, and Brill. His current blog on migration can be viewed here.
http://Illustrations, from above: The original St. James Hotel on Broadway & 26th Street (New York Public Library); A cartoon of Diamond Jim’s outfit; Diamond Jim’s gold pocket watch with a portrait of Napoleon produced circa 1910 in Geneva by Vacheron & Constantin; A 1890 Electric Broughham; A satirical postcard from 1908; The execution of William Kemmler (print published in August 17, 1890, in Le Petit Parisien); and Fire at the Windsor Hotel. (Photograph by H.N. Tiemann (active 1890s-1900s).

Edited by Deborah Dorff
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