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Re: [bomp] 1939/1940/1964/1965 NY Worlds Fair remnants...
God am I happy Epcot isn't in Queens. If Robert Moses kept it from
happening, then he just got bumped up a notch to my FIRST favorite guy names
Moses...
Steve
PS: by the mid 1950's somebody's baseball team was going to La La land.
Perennial runners-up not a bad choice for that particular assignment, all
things considered.
OK, Brooklynites and Angelenos, FLAME AWAY!!!
----- Original Message -----
From: <blairb@mac.com>
To: <bomp@xnet2.com>
Sent: Friday, December 31, 2004 6:55 PM
Subject: Re: [bomp] 1939/1940/1964/1965 NY Worlds Fair remnants...
>
> >> Walt Disney wanted Robert Moses to let him
> >> buy that World's Fair
> >> and Disney would have kept it open... Moses refused,
> >> so Walt set out to build
> >> Epcot Center in Florida. That could have been in
> >> Queens... and the Dodgers
> >> would still be in Brooklyn... had it not been for
> >> Robert Moses...
>
> To which Michael S replied:
> > I thought that there was no chance of the Dodgers
> > staying permanently in Ebbets Field ; that if they had
> > stayed in NYC they would have moved into Shea Stadium
> > once that opened.
> I think the original poster meant that if it hadn't been for Robert
> Moses, the Dodgers would still be in Brooklyn, not that they would've
stayed
> at Ebbets Field. The way I understand it, Walter O'Malley *wanted* to
stay
> in Brooklyn, but Ebbets Field wasn't meeting the club's needs any longer.
> He asked the city for some land *in Brooklyn!* Robert Moses told O'Malley
> that he had some lovely land in Flushing that he could have. To which
> O'Malley basically said, "But we're the BROOKLYN Dodgers." To which Moses
> replied, "I have some lovely land in Flushing that you can have."
O'Malley
> basically decided he was banging his head against a brick wall and took
his
> team to LA.
>
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