Fifty years ago, you could reserve your Cleveland Indians tickets at any Central Security Bank office. That's according to this ad featuring Chief Wahoo, which ran in the Journal on June 9, 1972.
I kind of miss the Chief, although I understand why he had to go. But I think it was a mistake to change the team's name entirely, seeing how other professional sports teams with Native American themes managed to hold on to theirs.
It's interesting seeing how the business opportunity to be the Cleveland baseball ticket office locally bounced around. In 1953, Richman Brothers was the place to reserve them.
In April 1963, you could buy them at Colony Bar.
In 1968 we got our tickets at the Men’s Shop in downtown Elyria. The ticket counter was in their basement and was like something from Hooverville with the the clerk behind bars and our tickets in a wooden pigeon hole on the wall . Todd
ReplyDeleteDarn spell check should have been “Hooterville”
ReplyDeleteCertainly, I can't speak for everyone, but I believe that a lot of situations like the Indians debacle are instigated by agenda driven people who claim to be "offended" on behalf of others.
ReplyDeleteThey should have simply renamed the team "tribe". Most of us referred to them as the Tribe anyway and the word is not tied to any specific group of people. That would have satisfied even the stubbornest grandfathers out there. Guardians is kind of lame as not many people really knew anything about those statues.
ReplyDeleteI wonder why people thought they needed to get tickets in advance. There were almost always plenty of seats available in that cavernous stadium.
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion the Indians should've been renamed the Cleveland Spiders.That name goes back to the early days of baseball and Cy Young,one of the greatest ever.They didn't name it the Cy Young Award for nothing.Cy Young and the Spiders just sounds better than Shane Bieber and the Guardians.
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