I don't know if in some sense it was making an allusion to New Amsterdam
or Holland, but I do know that the packs of Chewing gum had a picture of
the Brooklyn Bridge on it.
Edward Albert
Chappaqua, NY
>>> Jerome & Elizabeth Moos <jerrymoos@sbcglobal.net> 05/04/06 12:17 PM
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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.
Regards,
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