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April 25, 1960: Beverly Hills Police Chief Clinton H. Anderson describes the Johnny Stompanato killing in “Beverly Hills Is My Beat.” The book, which also covers the Bugsy Siegel murder, is readily available via Bookfinder. On the jump, hundreds of East Germans are fleeing to the West … Josephine Baker at the Huntington Hartford… and at an auction of Dodger souvenirs from Ebbets Field, one bystander says: “It looks like a bomb hit the place.” “Better that than what happened,” answered a Flatbush diehard, according to The Times. |
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ladailymirror.com 
Good riddance to Brooklyn. Where the fans loved the team so much, they couldn’t bear to go to the games in their beloved bandbox.
I’ve been to the new Mets’ park where they recreated the “famous” rotunda of Ebbets Field. It is roundly unimpressive. Typical of the legend.
Imagine the Dodgers today winning 6 pennants in 10 years and one-third of the park empty on the Opening Days of the following season. THAT was beloved Brooklyn, the myth of the place that loved its team, the dump that never was as still advertised.
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