alko
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Looking to this picture, it seems, that no kids were allowed. Its that true?
NHL hockey tonight!!Looking to this picture, it seems, that no kids were allowed. Its that true?
Looking to this picture, it seems, that no kids were allowed. Its that true?
no t-shirt toss
Aaahh- the memory of taking in the game wearing your "nine-lid" [back-up chapeau] in the hope of being able to pitch it in the event of a hat-trick!NHL hockey tonight!!
- No one without a hat
Looking to this picture, it seems, that no kids were allowed. Its that true?
That looks like an old woman!... there are definitely children in that photo. Immediately below the pillar in the middle of the photo is someone who is probably a child,...
would make sense, roaring twenties and all.One other thought, and this gets more into the realm of speculation on my part:
Hockey like other pro sports always had a male-dominated culture, but by the 1920s it was notably more female-friendly than it would be in future decades. It’s hard to quantify, but general commentary gives the impression that there were more women in the stands for a hockey game than for other sports. Venues like MSG and MLG explicitly attracted a fashionable female clientele.
My speculation is that as the Depression persisted and a more conservative culture emerged, women were gradually squeezed out of the picture. Financial realities eroded the practice of having big nights on the town as a couple, let alone paying for childcare to boot. A man who wanted to see the game would have found it more feasible to simply buy a ticket for himself, and leave his wife at home to watch the kids. Certainly by the time we get to the 1950s we see a culture that’s much more inclined to put men and women in their own separate spheres.
That being the case, it would make sense if the number of women and youngsters found at NHL games declined post-1930.
depending on where the picture was taken, it was quite possibly a 99.9% white town. Everything else checks out, lol.NHL hockey tonight!!
- No kids
- No non-white people
- No one under 40
- No one without a hat
- Bring your own pipe, get a free glass of water!
i feel like that long ago there probably weren't many things that you weren't allowed to bring kids to and they just let families make their own decisions. age restrictions probably became a thing during the baby boom i'm guessing.
as tarheel alludes to, in the 30s and 40s there were probably a lot more places a ten year old boy could freely enter that his mom couldn't. not hockey games, necessarily.
It wasn't that long ago that you wouldn't see sports apparel of any kind at games. It just wasn't a thing for many decades. Up until the early 90s I guess you'd see more and more hats and jerseys. But before then you wouldn't see that much of anything. And when you would it wouldn't be official NHL licensed stuff.
I was also fascinated by how when they'd show highlights from the Forum in Montreal all the men dressed in suits. All over the arena. And this happened right up until the building closed
Yes, kids were allowed. But there was much less of a culture of bringing an entire family to the game. There was no video screen, no t-shirt toss, no concourse face-painting station, no team store. Children generally weren’t brought to a game until they were old enough to sit and watch it themselves, just as a practical matter. Certainly the people sitting in the front rows would have rather paid for childcare than drag a child into the expensive seats just to hear it whine from boredom.
Outside of the privileged front row, this was the Depression. Ticket were cheap but middle-class folks weren’t eager to buy them for a whole family. What kids were in the building that night were likely teenagers up in the cheap seats, or giveaways for Boy Scouts, etc.