147 Comments for Hinchcliffe Stadium

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Saw some great midget races here, just before WW2 and right after
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looks like a toaster oven
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I'm sure it was a multi-purpose field or ended up one. I mean, if the dude is right about them even having car races here. That outer circle of dirt is a track, so they had track and field. Baseball, softball, track, football-I'm sure this old place has seen it all. I'm sure it's hainted.
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Pretty deep depth of field. I like it, and it looks great in black and white.
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From Cheery to Dreary.
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"Hey down in front!!! Your blocking my view!!!"
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OK.........What is that thing ?

Signed: An American Soldier stationed in Germany.
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i consider spray painting "graffiti" art, but not in these forms, this is vandilism, i try to make my art similar like the work of banksy or mark eco i also dont write words much i do stencils, but back on topic, awesome pics
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looks like a smashed computer.
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If you build it they will come
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Worked here in 1947 as a peanut vendor during midget auto races...remember other events as well, such as the "Paterson Panthers" semi-pro football team games coached by Ali Sherman, who later became head coach of the New York Giants, and a farewell appearance tour by Babe Ruth, who hit some soft balls out into the stands . He was dying of cancer at the time. I remember getting to the stadium by bus from Totowa, where I lived.. I could hear the midget racers (especially the outboard powered ones) from my house on Union Boulavard on hot summer nights . Seling in the stands on a good night you could make as much as 15$. Good memories. Sad to see what has happened to the place. Incidentally, the school building didn't exist in 1947.
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my house faced the stadium........i lived there about 25 yrs ago..... i go back every so often to check it all out....i also attended school 5 which is in t he backround of one of your pictures
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The lines are still on the field because this stadium has astroturf (or what is left of it). I saw another photo on the web and it shows the turf coming up.
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beatiful stadium going to waste
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Love the photographer and the locations.
Being a photographer myself I truely enjoy your subjects and techniques.
By the way I am also a Hinchcliffe and have got to go check this place out
Thanks !!!!!!!!
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