1973 Topps had some great shots of the soon-to-be-remodeled Yankee Stadium.
This shot of Dick Billings is the clearest one I've seen on a card of the buildings behind Yankee Stadium. The card looks really great in person if you have it. What caught my eye was the red signage on the buildings in the background.
Here is a great picture from 1972 from a blog called
Mike McCann's Field of Fotos. Click to zoom in on the picture for all of the details.
I also found this photo on a site called
Baseball-Fever (which also posted McCann's photo without crediting him). Here you can see the 7UP logo on the water tower and the signs painted on the buildings behind - Buy DiNoto's Bread & Rolls. There's not much online about DiNoto's bakery, which seems to have closed some time in the 1980s. The water tower is long gone and the apartments have since been painted over with white.
Love your posts involving the different stadiums in the background. Your detective work is amazing. You're the Sherlock Holmes of baseball card bloggers.
ReplyDeleteGreat stuff. Is Anacin still a brand? I guess I'd always imagined Yankee Stadium to be the monolith that I first visited in the early 1990s, but it seems almost quaint in these photos.
ReplyDeleteMy grandfather wonder DiNotoa bakery!
ReplyDeleteMy grandpa owned DiNotos bakery!
ReplyDeleteMr.Frank DiNoto was the founder of the bakery and used to put Yankee tickets in the packages of bread for the kids of the Bronx.
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