Tuesday, May 17, 2022 – We think back to when the only way to get here was the tram

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TUESDAY, MAY 17,  2022

676th Issue

HAPPY 46TH BIRTHDAY

ROOSEVELT ISLAND

AERIAL TRAMWAY
 

SOME TIDBITS OF TRAM HISTORY. SEND US YOUR STORIES

1980 COMIC BOOK FEATURING THE TRAM

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BALLFIELDS FROM THE MONDAY ISSUE:
POLO GROUNDS
SHIBE FIELD, PHILADELPHIA
RFK STADIUM , DC
EBBETS FIELD
SHEA STADIUM
VETERANS FIELD, PHILADELPHIA
ASTRODOME, HOUSTON
YANKEE STADIUM
ANAHEIM 
FENWAY PARK, BOSTON

Tuesday Photo of the Day

SEND YOU RESPONSE TO ROOSEVELTISLANDHISTORY@GMAIL.COM

THIS CARTS BIGGER EVERY YEAR AND IS AN EYESORE. PLEASE HELP US FIND A WAY TO GET IT RELOCATED OR REMOVED FROM THE TRAM PLAZA. APPARENTLY, RIOC HAS NO STANDARDS AS TO WHAT VENDORS THEY PERMIT ON THE ISLAND.

MONDAY PHOTO OF THE DAY

Van Cleef & Arpels floral displays on each block
of 5th Avenue for the month of May…..Magnifique!
GLORIA HERMAN, ALEXIS VILLAFANE, LAURA HUSSEY ALL GOT IT RIGHT

Text by Judith Berdy
Thanks to Bobbie Slonevsky for her dedication to Blackwell’s Almanac and the RIHS
Thanks to Deborah Dorff for maintaining our website
Edited by Melanie Colter and Deborah Dorff

All image are copyrighted (c) Roosevelt Island Historical Society unless otherwise indicated

Sources

JUDITH BERDY
RIHS ARCHIVES

FUNDING PROVIDED BY ROOSEVELT ISLAND OPERATING CORPORATION PUBLIC PURPOSE GRANTS CITY COUNCIL REPRESENTATIVE BEN KALLOS DISCRETIONARY FUNDING THRU DYCD

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