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Originally Posted by Scott Vibert
Having never seen it.. the images I saw suggested a light blue for the walls... Also the back-wall height seems low in hind-sight... working on the grid if I can remember how to align it, but I'm open to adjustments.
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Here's a good shot of the height and color of the back wall of the stadium. The burgundy paint on the fence is some weird 1970s add on lol. But on the post card, if you look closely you can see the paint on the seats and the light fixtures is actually different from the actual fences. (Most obvious in right field).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roosev...adium_1972.jpg
http://www.hudsoncity.net/temporary/...-model-400.jpg
http://www.jerseycityonline.com/rstadium/32rs.jpg
As a New Yorker familiar with pics and of the local stadiums during this time period. I'm willing to guarantee that at least during the 1960s on, the color of the fence is the same as the original one in Shea (before the bright blue). A really dull blue teal. The one you have is a little too bright, The stadium seats and the light bottoms are the same as the renovated Yankee stadiums original blue.
Prior to that, from the images I've seen I'm not certain that the light look of the walls was partially because it was actual chain link in left and right until the centerfield part which was the dark grey/black in old Yankee stadium.
The kicker about the New York Metropolitan area, especially New York and Jersey,during this time is that the color schemes used by from the 1950s on many civic and public buildings were the same. The same construction material companies would have supplied materials and the tendency was (partially due to the cities economic policies and also due to...let's say...outside influences on politics) that the same stuff appeared on every project.
On a side note, that blue seen around Roosevelt on that post card, is the same shade of blue at one point found on every metal surface of every train station in NYC.