Wrigley Field's Amazing Vendors
Lloyd Rutzky
(Author)
Joel Levin
(Author)
Description
In 1970, a vendor at Wrigley Field had an amazing idea to turn his personal camera away from the baseball diamond and toward his fellow ballpark hawkers as they went about their daily jobs of selling souvenirs, programs, hot dogs, ice cream, and soft drinks. Along the way, he also captured images of other employees--ushers, security staff, commissary workers, and union officials. The result, Wrigley Field's Amazing Vendors, offers a never-before-seen perspective of major-league baseball that Arcadia Publishing is proud to include in its Images of Modern America series. The subjects themselves are amazing: a blind Frosty Malt vendor; a singing peanut vendor; a Coca-Cola vendor who went on to become an economic adviser to the president of the United States. Many of the vendors photographed in the 1970s are still in the aisles of Wrigley Field today. Others left for new career opportunities. A few became legends in vending history.
Product Details
Price
$31.99
$29.75
Publisher
Arcadia Publishing Library Editions
Publish Date
July 09, 2018
Pages
98
Dimensions
6.69 X 0.25 X 9.61 inches | 0.79 pounds
Language
English
Type
Hardcover
EAN/UPC
9781540235152
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About the Author
Author Lloyd Rutzky became a seat vendor, selling soda pop at Comiskey Park at Thirty-Fifth Street and Shields Avenue in 1965, and he continued hawking pizza, hot dogs, and beer for the Pale Hose throughout the 1970s and 1980s, after their move to their newer location across the street in 1991, and up to the present day. Joel Levin, a fellow vendor who had a 15-year career at Comiskey Park from 1962 to 1977, had the idea for this book, and together with Rutzky, they chronicle their brothers and sisters in arms--and feet--including dozens of legends of the profession who are highly skilled in providing refreshments and souvenirs for what is known as White Sox Nation.
J.D. Levin is a mild-mannered librarian by day... and a mild-mannered rock & roller by night. He has worked as a public school educator for almost two decades - first as an English teacher, then as a Teacher Librarian. Outside of the classroom, he's written songs for Far From Kansas, The Briar Rose Ramblers, Kailua Moon, and Grammy-nominated slack-key guitarist Danny Carvalho. Levin is a graduate of UC Berkeley (BA '01), Stanford University (MA '02), CSUN (MA '09), and CSULB (TLSC '15). He lives on the central coast of California with his wife, two daughters, and cluttered collection of musical instruments. A Different Slant of Light, the sequel to Incomplete, is his second novel.
