Description
This vintage postcard depicts a partially-filled baseball stadium with vibrant red and yellow seats, a visible press box, and towering light poles. The Turnpike “Baseball” Stadium, home of the Dallas-Fort Worth “Spurs,” boasts 10,600 comfortable seats. This stunning “Artistichrome” color photo, published by Stryker’s Western Fotocolor around the 1950s, shows the first phase of a planned 50,000-seat stadium.
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Back Text (cleaned):
TURNPIKE "BASEBALL" STADIUM
Home of Dallas-Fort Worth "Spurs"
BETWEEN FORT WORTH AND DALLAS, TEXAS
This beautiful and comfortable 10,600-seat stadium
is located midway between two great cities, just south of
the Turnpike between Highways 157 and 360.
This scene shows the first phase of what is to eventually be a 50,000-seat, multi-purpose sports stadium.
Photographed and Published by Stryker's Western Fotocolor,
Artist Photographers, 4604 E. Lancaster, Fort Worth, Texas
Color
"Artistichrome"
POST CARD
