I think it was a marketing scheme based on the idea that Europeans would dig bubble gum that was from Brooklyn.
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On May 4, 2006, at 3:44 PM, Edward Albert wrote:
> 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
>>>>
> 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