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This is likely the occasion of the meeting to ratify a settlement in the streetcar conductor's strike on August 7, 1916 at the Lyceum Hall (see sign at street level, left) on E. 86th Street. A description of the meeting and the subsequent activities on the street around the hall are reported at query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=FA0616F73C5F13...
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This photo was taken looking northeast on the 200 block of E. 86th Street in Manhattan's Yorkville neighborhood. The Yorkville Central Garage, the building at street level under the bowling alley, was at 205-209 E. 86th. books.google.com/books?id=Xi06AQAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA130&a...

Are they the ones in the straw hats? ; )

I think so.

The five story building at center is all that's left of this part of E. 86th St., looking toward 2d Avenue: www.google.com/maps/@40.778613,-73.953481,3a,75y,74.52h,9...

Thanks, Art Siegel, for this information. We'll add some of it to this record the next time we update.

Jacob Ruppert
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Ruppert
"Jacob Ruppert Jr. (August 5, 1867 – January 13, 1939) was an American brewer, businessman, National Guard colonel and politician who served for four terms representing New York in the United States House of Representatives from 1899 to 1907. He also owned the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball from 1915 until his death in 1939."
- baseballhall.org/hall-of-famers/ruppert-jacob

Walter Johnson
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Johnson
"Walter Perry Johnson (November 6, 1887 – December 10, 1946), nicknamed "Barney" and "the Big Train", was an American professional baseball player and manager. He played his entire 21-year baseball career in Major League Baseball as a right-handed pitcher for the Washington Senators (aka Nationals for some periods) from 1907 to 1927."
- baseballhall.org/hall-of-famers/johnson-walter

According to the [Washington] Evening Star. April 14, 1925, Page 30
- chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1925-04-14/ed-...
The opening day of the American League season saw the Washington Nationals playing the Yankees at Yankee Stadium.

See photo of Johnson with President Warren Harding from 1923 in LoC's Bain stream


In 1924, the Senators had won the World Series in extra innings. A few years ago a silent movie reel including coverage of the game, in which Walter Johnson pitched the last 4 innings, was discovered. President Calvin Coolidge was present. See
- blogs.loc.gov/now-see-hear/2014/10/film-of-the-washington...
for the story of the discovery and the digitally preserved movie, with new accompaniment.

Where is the colour ;-)

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