Or they could just move to California. It’s a pity. It wold have been nice to have a Buckminster Fuller designed stadium in Brooklyn.
A Dome Grows in Brooklyn
The Dodgers’ home games may soon be played under this huge plastic bubble.
By Frank Tinsley
Mechanix Illustrated takes pride in being the first to show what the Brooklyn Dodgers’ new baseball park may look like—if the 20th century’s most daring architect gets his plan accepted. Buckminster Fuller has already earned the gratitude of the armed forces and the taxpaying public with his plastic igloos that can be helicopter-toted from air base to air base to serve as hangars, barracks, warehouses, administration buildings.
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I’m pretty sure that this is the first time I’ve seen “F’rinstance” used in print.
Sailing with Skates is Great Winter Sport
For real thrills there’s no sport like skate sailing, says Mr. Brown—and he goes ahead and proves it in this article. Moreover, he gives you plans for building your own sail and full directions on how to operate it when it’s finished.
By SAM BROWN
HERE he comes—there he goes!
Just like that! Like saying “Jack Robinson!”
And thrills. . . Man!
Maybe you’ve felt the smooth gliding swiftness of skating. And the flying sensation of skiing. And the speed of ice yachting. And the fun of tobogganing. But if you’ve left out skate sailing, then you’ve missed the grandest sport ever dished out by Old Man Winter.
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On April 9, Houston plays the world’s first air conditioned baseball game
How do you cool a ballpark and 46,000 red-hot fans? Houston does it by putting a clear-span dome on their new Harris County Stadium and applying the efficient energies of modern cooling systems. Friday, April 9, the Houston Astros inaugurate the new indoor field with an historic exhibition game against the New York Yankees.
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