Roosevelt Stadium - Photo Gallery

Photo Gallery

  • 1937–1950: home to the Jersey City Giants of the International League

  • Also a football hub where local high school teams squared off on the gridiron

  • Soccer game in 1960; in the 1970s, NASL soccer came to the stadium

  • Stadium awaited demise three years after the 1982 Council demolition vote

  • Christian Ziegler's stylish Art Deco flair is still visible through the 1984 weeds

  • Down to smallest detail, intertwined "RS" motif on seats was moderne touch

  • Faint echoes of The Dead, KISS, C,S,N&Y and many other concerts in the 1970s

  • Roosevelt Stadium press box loomed over the field on the grandstand roof

  • Scoreboard posted major league Dodgers' totals for 7 games in 1950s; 1984 photo

  • Doomed structures: Twin Towers, faintly visible from the Roosevelt grandstand

  • Today a gated community sits atop the site of the dugout of baseball past

  • Aerial view

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