Wrigley Field's Amazing Vendors - Historic Chicago Baseball Stadium Merchants (Images of Modern America Book) - Perfect for Baseball Fans & Chicago History Enthusiasts
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Witness a never-before-seen perspective of the personnel who have become legends in their own in the stands of The Friendly Confines.In 1970, a vendor at Wrigley Field had an amazing idea to turn his personal camera away from the baseball diamond and toward his fellow ballpark hawkers as they went about their daily jobs of selling souvenirs, programs, hot dogs, ice cream, and soft drinks. Along the way, he also captured images of other employees - ushers, security staff, commissary workers, and union officials. The result, Wrigley Field's Amazing Vendors, offers an inside look of Major League Baseball that Arcadia Publishing is proud to include in its Images of Modern America series. The subjects themselves are amazing: a blind Frosty Malt vendor; a singing peanut vendor; a Coca-Cola vendor who went on to become an economic adviser to the president of the United States. Many of the vendors photographed in the 1970s are still in the aisles of Wrigley Field today. Others left for new career opportunities, while a few became legends in vending history.
Customer Reviews
What a great trip back in time to honor the guys that sold Cub fans food and drink for all those years.And there were so many vendors I recognized and how nice to see them again.This picture filled tribute shares the story of what being a vendor entailed and the kinship they shared among their vendor brethren and Cub fans.And thank you for the memories of my favorite vendor of all time, Uncle Irv who sold frosty malts in the bleachers in the bleacher bum era.I was a young right center field bleacher bum (and have been a season ticket holder for the last 30 years). We all just loved Irving who sold us cool refreshment during those only day game hot summers. Irving was old and mostly toothless and legally blind and the bleacher bums just loved him. They would shout "we want Irving" chants in the summer heat (the TV and radio guys didn't know what was going on with the bleacher chanting) and Irv would bring frosty malts. We tried to give him exact change as Irving being blind couldn't see to give back the right change. Sometimes he needed a hand going up and down the cement steps. And one special Sunday we had Irving day...we made up hundreds of construction paper buttons that declared "We Love Irving" and for the day there was left/right peace as we all honored our favorite vendor.Thanks for the memories. Well done.
