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Shea and Citi Field postcards

metsguyinmichigan Aug 13 2011 08:17 PM

I've been having fun writing about bad postcards at work and on Facebook, so I started writing about good ones instead on the blog. [url]http://metsguyinmichigan.blogspot.com/2011/08/shea-still-remains-at-least-on.html Now, I've found several Shea postcards over the years, but Citi has been elusive. Has anyone ever seen one? Here are some of my favorite Shea postcards, and the rest are one the blog if you are interested.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Aug 13 2011 08:21 PM Re: Shea and Citi Field postcards

I don't collect these things but have the 2nd one pictured somewhere.

Fman99 Aug 13 2011 08:23 PM Re: Shea and Citi Field postcards

God I loved the stupid blue and orange rectangles at Shea when I was little. My earliest memories at Shea are seeing the stadium from the parking lot, probably 1976 or 1977 this would be.

themetfairy Aug 13 2011 08:32 PM Re: Shea and Citi Field postcards

Fman99 wrote: God I loved the stupid blue and orange rectangles at Shea when I was little. My earliest memories at Shea are seeing the stadium from the parking lot, probably 1976 or 1977 this would be. I loved them too.

Benjamin Grimm Aug 13 2011 08:34 PM Re: Shea and Citi Field postcards

When I own the Mets and knock down Citi Field to build a Shea replica, you can be sure the blue and orange shingles will be part of the design.

MFS62 Aug 14 2011 08:12 AM Re: Shea and Citi Field postcards

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: I don't collect these things but have the 2nd one pictured somewhere. That's the only one I have, too. And I can't remember where I left mine, either. Later

Ceetar Aug 14 2011 08:36 AM Re: Shea and Citi Field postcards

I feel like I have a Citi Field postcard somewhere. I wonder where it would be. edit: I do. the front's okay but the back is a little messy. You see..I..took some free pudding outside Citi Field one day and forgot to eat it..and when I next grabbed the bag to go to a game, it'd leaked..

Gwreck Aug 14 2011 08:55 AM Re: Shea and Citi Field postcards

Check out the 3rd one and how the seats filled. They sold out the Upper Reserved but nobody wanted to pay to sit in the upper boxes. The last one is from the glorious 2006 season but I can't tell which game.

Willets Point Aug 14 2011 09:42 AM Re: Shea and Citi Field postcards

I like how the second one features the sylvan, suburban subdivision of Willets Point.

batmagadanleadoff Aug 14 2011 09:54 AM Re: Shea and Citi Field postcards

Willets Point wrote: I like how the second one features the sylvan, suburban subdivision of Willets Point. The illustration in that second post card was an artist's rendering of Shea Stadium, imagined before it was actually built. During the Polo Grounds years, that image was circulated at many press conferences and press releases concerning Shea's imminent construction. The illustrator probably ran out of paint before he could render the chop shops and junkyards. Benjamin Grimm wrote: When I own the Mets and knock down Citi Field to build a Shea replica, you can be sure the blue and orange shingles will be part of the design. You don't have to worry about a thing if I should happen to buy the Mets before you do. I'm with you. I never met any Met fan who didn't love those shingles. If the owners were in tune with us, they might've homaged the blue and orange panels into their new stadium. But they were instead, too preoccupied ensuring that that big stupid 42 would display in that stupid rotunda for a Dodger.

Edgy DC Aug 14 2011 11:11 AM Re: Shea and Citi Field postcards

One thing I note between the artist's drawing and the actual photo is that the concourse seems like it was supposed to be wider. The roof over the concourse in the illustration clearly extends further out from the top of the seats than it does in the photograph.

Frayed Knot Aug 14 2011 02:04 PM Re: Shea and Citi Field postcards

Gwreck wrote: Check out the 3rd one and how the seats filled. They sold out the Upper Reserved but nobody wanted to pay to sit in the upper boxes. Well, yeah, those seats were like an extra dollar or two!

batmagadanleadoff Aug 14 2011 02:41 PM Re: Shea and Citi Field postcards

metsguyinmichigan wrote:

Edgy DC Aug 14 2011 02:47 PM Re: Shea and Citi Field postcards

I'd like to see the Mets get the leftover World's Fair structures and incorporate them into the stadium complex.

metsguyinmichigan Aug 14 2011 02:54 PM Re: Shea and Citi Field postcards

Edgy DC wrote: I'd like to see the Mets get the leftover World's Fair structures and incorporate them into the stadium complex. I realize there's a reason why ballparks tend to face the way they do, but if Shea had been able to face south --meaning the horseshoe opening offering a view, the scene would have been the magnificent Unisphere, which I love. Had the open end faced north, we could have viewed the bridges. East would have afforded the Manhattan skyline. Instead, for all those years, we got to look out over Queens.

G-Fafif Aug 14 2011 03:14 PM Re: Shea and Citi Field postcards

I'm pretty certain Sammy Serval paid off a few city commissioners to get it to face downtown Flushing.

Frayed Knot Aug 14 2011 03:17 PM Re: Shea and Citi Field postcards

G-Fafif wrote: I'm pretty certain Sammy Serval paid off a few city commissioners to get it to face downtown Flushing. Sammy pooled his money with the cash his friend Russ had made from his togs shop.

Ashie62 Aug 14 2011 03:21 PM Re: Shea and Citi Field postcards

themetfairy wrote: Fman99 wrote: God I loved the stupid blue and orange rectangles at Shea when I was little. My earliest memories at Shea are seeing the stadium from the parking lot, probably 1976 or 1977 this would be. I loved them too. First thing I saw on thw Whitestone Bridge.

Ashie62 Aug 14 2011 03:23 PM Re: Shea and Citi Field postcards

Frayed Knot wrote: Gwreck wrote: Check out the 3rd one and how the seats filled. They sold out the Upper Reserved but nobody wanted to pay to sit in the upper boxes. Well, yeah, those seats were like an extra dollar or two! That and you felt you might fall to your death.

G-Fafif Aug 14 2011 04:06 PM Re: Shea and Citi Field postcards

Peter Richmond, who literally wrote the book on Camden Yards, doesn't care for Citi Field, MFYS III or whatever the New Meadowlands Stadium will eventually be called. It's not just that Citi Field looks backward; it looks backward through a fractured lens, as if it had been conjured by a freshman at RISD armed with some stadium-design software, a book of old-ballpark postcards, and 48 hours' worth of meth. The brick façade pays homage to Jackie Robinson's Ebbets. The porch in right pays homage to long-gone Tiger Stadium. The seat color pays homage to the Polo Grounds and Willie's Giants, for christ's sake. Remember Mickey Rivers' assessment of Reggie Jackson? "No wonder you're all mixed up. You got a white man's first name, a Spanish man's second name and a black man's third name." That's Citi Field.

Edgy DC Aug 14 2011 04:28 PM Re: Shea and Citi Field postcards

Architecture with multiple influences and reference points is somehow a scandal? Let's pick teams. You pick Rivers, I'll pick Reggie.

metsguyinmichigan Aug 14 2011 05:06 PM Re: Shea and Citi Field postcards

[url]http://metsguyinmichigan.blogspot.com/2011/08/postcard-tour-first-bob-then-chase-but.html Next on the tour is Arizona.

Ceetar Aug 15 2011 09:13 PM Re: Shea and Citi Field postcards

again, apologize for the pudding stains. I took this out of the Delta Club. It's 2011 Opening Day.

metsguyinmichigan Aug 16 2011 04:51 AM Re: Shea and Citi Field postcards

That's cool!!!! Here's the next one in the series I'm working on: