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thetahat 12-29-2020 03:24 PM

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Originally Posted by bocca001 (Post 2050766)
I'm ready for Greg to start a website, maybe similar to what Fballguy has for football pennants, grouping pennants by maker/series.

These are the fairly identifiable makers, some of which can loosely be grouped by series/time period (thanks to KB for info) .. some whose maker is unknown, I give an example of the pennant

Trench early 50s team logo and generic block lettering
Trench mid 50s TMC trademark (mostly stadium pennants)
Trench 1960s SS baseball trademark
Trench team picture pennants 1960-early 70s
Trench 1969 MLB
WGN 1950-52
Ad Flag 1950-?
Keezer (early 50s-60s)
Keezer (late 60s pictured above)
ASCO 1969 MLB cloth
ASCO early MLB 70s felt
Unknown maker (Cinderella Boys NYG pennant) 1940s-50s
Unknown maker (sliding base runner pennants, Phila blue Jay)
BF3 mid 1930s
Unknown maker (Trench?) wheel pictured above, also Jackie, Doby, Paige
Grommet pennants (St. Louis company?) 1930s-40s and earlier?
Collegiate (3D, only four teams known)
Unknown maker 1910s (“BBC” oversized)
Unknown maker 1900s-1910s (leather graphic, oversized)
Unknown maker 1930s baseball scene in stadium with flags
Unknown maker, stadium pennants where every stadium looks like the Vet (see above)

ooo-ribay 12-29-2020 04:30 PM

^^^ I’d love to see you group those in a Google album because I sometimes don’t know what the hell you guys are talking about! :p

Edit: and once I knew what you were talking about, I might be able to add some. Others might help, as well.

bocca001 12-29-2020 04:44 PM

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I agree that some type of webpage or Google photos album would be cool, if you had time to make it. I'm sure that it would be a lot of work.

Not distract from the series discussion... but what in the heck is going on with this pennant? I know we have some Dodgers collectors on here. We have a combo of Dodgers and Chinatown and Yankee Stadium? A bit of fall harvest? It looks half accident and half purposeful.

ooo-ribay 12-29-2020 04:54 PM

Those wacky D**gers! :mad:

ser1979 12-29-2020 06:03 PM

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Originally Posted by ooo-ribay (Post 2050812)
Pretty cool! What size is the pennant?

The tigers pennant is 23" long

ooo-ribay 12-29-2020 06:08 PM

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Originally Posted by ser1979 (Post 2050875)
The tigers pennant is 23" long

I’m a “Giants only” guy, but that is a very cool piece. I didn’t expect it to be that big.

rlevy 12-29-2020 10:07 PM

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Originally Posted by bocca001 (Post 2050859)
I agree that some type of webpage or Google photos album would be cool, if you had time to make it. I'm sure that it would be a lot of work.

Not distract from the series discussion... but what in the heck is going on with this pennant? I know we have some Dodgers collectors on here. We have a combo of Dodgers and Chinatown and Yankee Stadium? A bit of fall harvest? It looks half accident and half purposeful.

Kyle and I have puzzled over this one, especially why they picked these 4 things to use as landmarks for LA - Chinatown, Grauman's Chinese Theatre, Olvera St.(known as “the birthplace of Los Angeles,” it is a Mexican Marketplace that recreates a romantic “Old Los Angeles” with a block-long narrow, tree-shaded, brick-lined market with old structures, painted stalls, street vendors, cafes, restaurants and gift shops), and ,uh, tropical fruit?. Guess they couldn't come up with another landmark in 1963. Unless you lived here, you probably wouldn't recognize any of these, except maybe the fruit.

But also, it doesn't help that they pasted the team photo over much of the artwork instead of inserting it in a cut-out window like most other photo pennants. The photo is simply too large for the cut-out. There is an outline for a photo insert on the pennant, but they never cut it out.

Here's a better picture of the "artwork".

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Domer05 12-29-2020 11:11 PM

C'mon Marc, what fan doesn't want to take home a Los Angeles Dodgers/Chinatown/Olvera Street/Grauman's Theater/assorted citrus souvenir pennant to remember their trip to New York's Yankee Stadium??

It looks to me like the maker (probably Trench) tried to cut corners in their haste to make this pennant in time for sale at that year's world series. Here, they saved time by re-purposing some "scenes of Los Angeles" artwork previously used on Los Angeles travel pennants for use on this baseball pennant.

I wonder why they didn't make a "Dodger Stadium" version with a Yankee team photo beside a Statue of Liberty on it??

perezfan 12-29-2020 11:52 PM

I swear I've seen a similar Dodgers pennant with the LaBrea Tar Pits on it. Olvera Street and Graumann's Chinese were also depicted on that one. Been a long time, but I know I've seen it.

I remember thinking, "How could the La Brea Tar Pits even make the cut for a pennant like that?"

rlevy 12-30-2020 08:34 AM

These days, when they are in LA, every TV show and televised sporting event shows the Santa Monica Pier with its ferris wheel. But in 1963, if you put that on a pennant, everyone would have thought "Hey, Coney Island".

How do you depict a "tar pit"? That can't be easy, unless you have the pennant release an odiferous smell.


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