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Too School For Cool

17. Jul, 2014 0 Comments

Fort Hamilton High Schoolers, 1988

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Fort Hamilton High Schoolers, 1988

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Dome Piece of Work

12. Jul, 2012 1 Comment

The Brooklyn Dodgers proposed domed stadium, designed by Buckminster Fuller, was to replace Ebbets Field for the Brooklyn Dodgers to allow them to stay in New York City. The Dodgers instead moved to Chavez Ravine in Los Angeles, California.  First announced in the early 1950s, the envisioned structure would have seated 52,000 people and been the first domed stadium in the world, opening roughly a decade before Houston’s Astrodome.  The stadium would have been located at the southeast corner of Flatbush Avenue and Atlantic Avenue, on the site of the Barclays Center. It would have cost $6 million to build and been privately financed. It was never built.

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY BUCKY!

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Best Coast(er)

26. Jun, 2012 0 Comments

Happy 85th Birthday to the world’s grrrrrreatestest roller coaster evers evers – The Cyclone!!!!!


photo by Harvey Wang

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Wurlitzer Organ Donor

08. May, 2012 0 Comments

The Paramount Theatre

November 24, 1928 to August 1962

a movie palace with 4,084 seats, and a Wurlitzer that was second only in size to the organ at Radio City Music Hall, with 2,000 pipes and 257 stops.  it also hosted plenty of concerts, with the likes of Dizzy Gillespie, Ella Fitzgerald, Miles Davis, Chuck Berry, Fats Domino, Buddy Holly and many many many others rocking its hizouse

then it was bought by Long Island University Brooklyn and the movie dreams were turned into hoop dreams…

The Arnold and Marie Schwartz Athletic Center

November 30, 1963 to Present

The Paramount Theatre was converted to a gymnasium and was home The LIU Brooklyn Blackbirds, until they moved to a new facility in 2006.  The Schwartz Athletic Center still stands, and plays host to the occasional sporting event

this is what it looked like in 2008

if it still looks like this, our new 2012 goal is to play basketball here

hat tip from - Beautiful Photographs of Decaying and Repurposed Movie Palaces

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Tickle Me Mr Pink

05. Aug, 2011 1 Comment

minor peace the forks out to

What’s on Steve Buscemi’s Stoop?

Spring Cleaning Continues…
11 May 2011
Another beautiful spring day in Brooklyn, another box of Buscemi freebies. Today’s discards include this lovely tie commemorating the Manchester, Iowa Centennial; a giraffe coaster inscribed on the back in Buscemi’s son’s name; mixtapes of Nino 

creepy stoop tumbledee, we hardly knew yee!

editor’s note: from 1999 – 2001, we lived one block away from the Buscemi family

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