Sometimes I come across something on eBay that is simply irresistible, just absolute catnip. Thus I have for you today a spectacular advertisement from the 1939 volume of the Engineering News-Record, a construction industry publication that still exists:
That’s a really nice image of the then brand new north stands of the old stadium. I had a devil of a time back in 2015 figuring out when exactly they were built and there are very few pictures of them before the big south stands were constructed in 1938. Here’s the other one that I know of:
The bench seats were replaced at some point but those stands lasted until 2015 so we really got our money’s worth.
Wolmanizing involves just a teeny little bit of arsenic, by the way, but probably fine as long as you didn’t eat any of the wood.
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