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Yankee Stadium

coffee_black	Yankee Stadium posted Thu, 18 Sep 2008 20:49:00 GMT (9/18/2008)
Massachusetts Post 1553 of 3378 Since 2/6/2002	I didn't know this.... I was there...I was only 6 years old, but I remember it.... All that sport consequence, and you know what Yankee Stadium's record crowd — 123,707 — will forever be? A 1958 convention of Jehovah's Witnesses. http://www.usatoday.com/sports/columnist/lopresti/2008-09-17-yankee-stadium_N.htm Coffee
changeling	Re: Yankee Stadium posted Thu, 18 Sep 2008 22:30:00 GMT (9/18/2008)
Post 6302 of 7144 Since 6/3/2007	I was there in 63. I was 4 years old.
MeneMene	Re: Yankee Stadium posted Thu, 18 Sep 2008 23:25:00 GMT (9/18/2008)
Post 684 of 716 Since 10/19/2006	I was there in 1958 - almost 10 yrs old. All I remember about NY is how dirty it seemed. Maybe that perception was just of a child stuck in 8 full days of torment. Wonder if that number included all the overflow crowd at Polo Grounds or just the ones in Yankee Stadium.
watson	Re: Re: Yankee Stadium posted Fri, 19 Sep 2008 03:56:00 GMT (9/19/2008)
Post 1551 of 4942 Since 3/17/2005	Those numbers are for Yankee stadium only. The combined numbers for 1958 were in the 250,000 area.
mustang	Re: Yankee Stadium posted Fri, 19 Sep 2008 04:10:00 GMT (9/19/2008)
Post 1828 of 2223 Since 3/29/2001	I was there in '58, also. I believe the number was higher, but it included the Polo Grounds AND they counted the campgrounds that had an audio feed. So, the 123K # @ Yankee Stadium would sound right, just for the Stadium. WTS always used the total number. Mustang
OUTLAW	Re: Yankee Stadium posted Fri, 19 Sep 2008 04:15:00 GMT (9/19/2008)
British Columbia Post 9076 of 25589 Since 10/11/2001	1958..Me too..Just a toddler..But..I remember................OUTLAW
Gram	Re: Yankee Stadium posted Fri, 19 Sep 2008 04:26:00 GMT (9/19/2008)
Post 16 of 152 Since 6/18/2008	I was there in 58. I was 11. I remember taking the subway from our hotel. Coming back at night, scary, dark, late, with my grandmother. Someone threw a peach pit, at us? on the street? We were afraid and started running toward our hotel several blocks away. Did not go to the Polo Grounds, but stayed at the Stadium. I remember the long long line of portapots and drinking fountains.
garybuss	Re: Yankee Stadium posted Fri, 19 Sep 2008 09:45:00 GMT (9/19/2008)
South Dakota Post 7088 of 7625 Since 10/8/2001	I was there all 8 days. I was 14. The whole experience was unforgettable. This is a picture I took there. One of many.
uninformed	Re: Yankee Stadium posted Fri, 19 Sep 2008 10:21:00 GMT (9/19/2008)
Kansas Post 1082 of 1120 Since 1/21/2006	My wife, Karen, was down on the field on some of those days. She was 13. If I remember, the attendance of Yankee Stadium and Polo Grounds was 263,000. Could remember wrong. Brant
blondie	Re: Yankee Stadium posted Fri, 19 Sep 2008 10:36:00 GMT (9/19/2008)
Post 25475 of 36364 Since 5/28/2001	* jv chap. 17 p. 274 Conventions Proof of Our Brotherhood *For their largest convention, in New York in 1958, it was necessary to use not only Yankee Stadium but also the nearby Polo Grounds as well as overflow areas outside the stadiums to accommodate the convention crowds. On the final day, when every seat was filled, special permission was granted to use even the playing field of Yankee Stadium, and what a thrilling sight it was as thousands streamed in, removed their shoes, and sat on the grass! The count showed 253,922 in attendance to hear the public discourse. A further evidence of Jehovah’s blessing on the ministry of his servants was seen when 7,136 at this convention symbolized their dedication by water immersion—well over twice the number that were baptized on the historic occasion of Pentecost 33 C.E., as reported in the Bible!—Acts 2:41.
Tyrone van leyen	Re: Yankee Stadium posted Fri, 19 Sep 2008 11:03:00 GMT (9/19/2008)
Ontario Post 2102 of 2247 Since 12/12/2006	Wow Gary, you must be clenching your chair with excitement, just thinking about it. I cracked one earlier this evening, about the conditons at those early assemblies, with the mud and rain etc. " Millions now living, will never Dry" You can have that one, if you like.
Undecided	Re: Yankee Stadium posted Fri, 19 Sep 2008 14:08:00 GMT (9/19/2008)
North Carolina Post 3597 of 3622 Since 3/16/2001	I was there. I was 22 years old and had been married for a year to a girl I had met there when I attended a few years before. She was from New Mexico the first time I met her. I really enjoyed going to those assemblies back then, well maybe some of them when I didn't work in some department, like cleaning. Her name was Jimmylene Pardue. Haven't heard from her in over thirty years, she divorced me back in 1973. Ken P.
Witness 007	Re: Yankee Stadium posted Fri, 19 Sep 2008 14:12:00 GMT (9/19/2008)
Post 2035 of 5672 Since 8/28/2007	I wonder how many of these went Apostate decades later....I know a few.
Seeker4	Re: Yankee Stadium posted Fri, 19 Sep 2008 14:13:00 GMT (9/19/2008)
Post 3110 of 3376 Since 2/13/2001	Didn't make it in 1958, but I did attend conventions at Yankee Stadium in 1963, 1965 (not sure), 1969 and I think also in 1971 and 1973, the last year they held them there. I have a unique experience with Yankee Stadium. It was in 1971, I think. I stayed after the program to help with the overnight cleanup crew on the last day of the convention. We worked late, and were too tired to drive home, so sometime during the night I found a couple of clean towels, put them under my head and stretched out on a wooden bench and slept the night in Yankee Stadium. I'll bet there's not many people who can claim a similar experience. What was a joke was that most of the "clean up" crew was actually a mixed bunch of inner city teenagers looking for an interesting adventure being let loose in this huge stadium with little or no adult supervision. The poor brother in charge of that crew was really at wit's end after the first hour or so! I'll bet there are some stories from what happened that night that are a lot more interesting than mine!! S4
greenhornet	Re: Yankee Stadium posted Sat, 20 Sep 2008 01:35:00 GMT (9/20/2008)
Washington Post 166 of 470 Since 2/18/2004	Didn't make it in 1958, but I did attend conventions at Yankee Stadium in 1963, 1965 (not sure), 1969 and I think also in 1971 and 1973, the last year they held them there. I have a unique experience with Yankee Stadium. It was in 1971, I think. I stayed after the program to help with the overnight cleanup crew on the last day of the convention. We worked late, and were too tired to drive home, so sometime during the night I found a couple of clean towels, put them under my head and stretched out on a wooden bench and slept the night in Yankee Stadium. I'll bet there's not many people who can claim a similar experience. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We had "night guard" duty. I slept on the out field as a dare. I bet I was the only one to do that! Seeker4 you are so right!!
d	Re: Yankee Stadium posted Wed, 13 Oct 2010 16:21:00 GMT (10/13/2010)
Post 3 of 1817 Since 10/11/2010	I remeber hearing a brother talk about being in Yankee Stadium.That was back in 1958, I say to myself How could somebody sit their for close to 12 hrs in a hot open stadium.I thought 3 day conventions were torture enough
St George of England	Re: Yankee Stadium posted Wed, 13 Oct 2010 16:36:00 GMT (10/13/2010)
Post 646 of 2047 Since 3/22/2010	My Dad was there in 1958. There is the photo still in the KH (as in many KH's I suppose) but I still cannot see him! He came back with audio tapes of the talks, Let Your Will Be Done book, Paradise book, special embossed souvenier NWT, news of sisters being on TMS and how close Armageddon really was! He's been dead over 20 years now. George
Ding	Re: Yankee Stadium posted Wed, 13 Oct 2010 16:55:00 GMT (10/13/2010)
Post 448 of 4396 Since 8/27/2010	I had a friend who was at Yankee Stadium cicra 1950, fully expecting Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob to emerge from the Yankee dugout. Seriously!

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