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Howard played games at both Howard Stadium, sometimes referred to as University Stadium, and nearby Griffith Stadium, where crowds of 17,000 to 20,000 people were common, from the 1920s into the 1950s. (Griffith Stadium was demolished in 1965.)
Proving that they could never be outdone by anyone else, the New York Yankees capped the steel-and-concrete era by building, easily, the largest ballpark of them all: 70,000-seat Yankee Stadium. (The Rucker Archive) The steel-and-concrete era came to an epic crescendo in 1923.
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To give you a taste of what football stadiums looked like in those years, we have compiled fifteen photos of different stadiums in the 1920s. Some already existed for several decades, but others had just been newly built.
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- The city’s most iconic skyscrapers stem from this era. The Empire State Building and the Chrysler Building—the two gems in our world-famous skyline—started their construction in the 1920s.
- There were thousands of speakeasies in NYC during Prohibition. When we say “thousands” of speakeasies, we mean it. During Prohibition, when it was illegal to sell, transport and produce alcohol, there were anywhere from 20,000 to 100,000 speakeasies in New York City alone, according to the New-York Historical Society.
- Black New Yorkers created one of the biggest artistic movements in the world. After the Great Migration, when Black Americans left the South and moved to cities in the North, Midwest and West, which started in 1910, they flooded New York City with dance, music, art, literature, fashion, theater and politics, especially in Harlem.
- About 35% of the city’s 5.6 million residents were foreign-born. New York City has long been a city of immigrants. In the 1920s, a large portion of the population was comprised of people who had been born in another country.
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Tex Rickard’s new Madison Square Garden, on Eighth Avenue, became Dempsey’s home base but the menacing fighter outgrew the arena as radio and newspaper sports sections turned athletes into international celebrities with enormous followings. Rickard staged Dempsey’s biggest fights – against Gene Tunney, Jack Sharkey and Argentinian Luis Firpo, the “...
The New York Daily News, America’s first tabloid newspaper, exploited this upsurge of interest in mass spectator sports. Beginning in the early 1920s a rising standard of living and a shortened workweek freed up Saturday afternoon and Sundays for leisure pursuits. The sports section of American newspapers grew phenomenally. By 1927, New York’s majo...
The New York Daily News publisher Joseph Patterson developed a new approach to baseball coverage. He instructed sports editor Marshall Hunt to cover Babe Ruth twelve months a year, chronicling his off-season barnstorming tours, his vaudeville gigs, his workouts, his trips to hospitals to visit sick children, and his stormy marital life. And though ...
On opening day, April 18, 1923, Ruth baptized the new park with a three-run shot into the short right field “porch,” to the delight of a standing-room crowd of 62,000. Soon the stadium was dubbed “the house that Ruth built. With Ruth’s emergence, a new type of fan began to come to the ballpark -— "the fan” as one sports reporters wrote, “who didn’t...
Apr 16, 2020 · Summary: Photograph shows a large crowd with signs at the May Day rally of the Socialist Party. Weegee (Arthur Fellig), “Retail butchers lined up at Ft. Greene Market, Brooklyn, in the early dawn, hoping for a little meat to sell from their shops,” March 19, 1943. Title: Harlem, the ‘Negro section’ of New York City, went wild with joy ...
On Opening Day, April 12, 1911, the stands were completed but uncovered, and ready for a crowd of 16,000 to see the Senators defeat the Boston Red Sox, 8-5.15 President William Howard Taft threw out the first ball.
