Speaking of Brooklyn jerseys, I've always wondered about the origin of the Brooklyn team of DeVlaemink and Gios fame. The sponsor made chewing gum, correct? But where did the name of the gum and the colors of the jersey originate? I believe Brooklyn, like many placenames in what would later become NYC, was named after a place in Holland during the Dutch colonial period of New Amsterdam. So did the name of the gum refer to the Brooklyn in America, or to the original place in Holland? And where did the colors come from? I understand Brookyln team replica jerseys have developed a following among bike messengers in NYC, but that may not be the Brooklyn the name originally referred to.
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Jerry Moos Big Spring, TX
Kristopher Green <kristopher.green@gmail.com> wrote: Are you guys suggesting that the various boroughs had their own racing colors? Or were the rivalries largely club based? If the latter, it's easy to imagine that clubs didn't attract much membership outside the borders of their respective boroughs, given how Balkanized the city was by geographic and ethnic divides. I have a friend who's a tugboat mate in the harbor there who says he met a guy who'd never been off Staten Island--and I don't doubt that that sort of thing used to be fairly common.
Me, I'd like to see a jersey celebrating Ecurie Ecosse, the Scottish auto racing team of the 1950s.
Kris Green
Olympia WA