Mickey Mantle At Yankees Spring Training 1971

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Mickey Mantle Gives Advice To Prospects Rick Bladt and Joe Pactwa

Besides “hustle, play hard and be your best” what could Mickey Mantle say to young Yankee prospects? After all, they’re not Mickey Mantle.

As the news slug says:

March 8, 1971 -Ft. Lauderdale, FLA: Former Yankee great Mickey Mantle (L), a special instructor with the team at their spring training camp, gives some pointers to rookie outfield hopefuls Rich Bladt (C) and Joe Pactwa recently. Bladt played at Syracuse last season and Pactwa played at Manchester, N.H.. UPI Telephoto

RIck Bladt did get to play in the majors. Continue reading →

UPDATE – We will be updating to a new server & will have outages

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Dear Stuffnobodycaresabout readers,

→ Over the next 24-48 hours we will be switching the hosting of our site and we may be offline sporadically until March 7 if there are complications.

Thanks for reading-  Please come back, we will be up and running with new content ASAP.

Friday March 6, 12:45 P.M. EST  UPDATE on the update:  – We have completed the server switch and are running tests over the next 24 hours making sure everything works. If you find any problems, dead links or any error messages or something funky going on and you think we should know about it — please alert us at stuffnobodycares at gmail.com. Thank you

Friday March 6, 7:00 P.M. UPDATE- We are still testing, so far so good, and the site is now completely functional and new stories will be appearing.

Old New York In Photos #192 – The Bowery At The Turn-Of-The-Century

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Transportation On The Bowery Near Houston Street c. 1900

In this magic lantern slide view from around 1900. a pair of horse drawn trolleys make their way along the Bowery. One going to Harlem – one coming from Harlem. The horses trod along the trolley rails laid within the Belgian block pavement. A delivery wagon is parked at the curb.

The four car train Continue reading →

Lord & Taylor Open Their New Building February 24, 1914

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Lord And Taylor Advertising Their New Digs 1914

112 years ago today one of New York’s most venerable merchants Lord & Taylor moved into their new store on Fifth Avenue between 38th and 39th Street.

This advertisement in The New York Sun newspaper appeared a couple of days before the new store would open.  Lord & Taylor’s first store on Catherine Street opened in 1826. Lord & Taylor moved many times before settling into their new 11-story building on February 24, 1914. Continue reading →

Who And What Are The “Best Legs” Judges Looking At?

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Best Legs Contest – Really?

Unfortunately this is an undated photograph with no location or news slug to identify any of the specifics. The photo appears to be from the 1950s based upon judges and participants hairstyles and outfits.

Obviously it is a best legs competition. Unlike many other Continue reading →

Fashions Of The 1970s – Men’s & Women’s T-Shirts

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The Fashionable T-Shirt 1973

August 17, 1973 – New York: T-shirt collectors vie to outdo each other. Nancy Greenberg wears gaudy New York souvenir shirt. What mother never told Kathleen O’Connell about is Ultra-Brite toothpaste. French Gitanes shirt worn by Paula Scher is more desirable than American brands; photos: Nancy Moran / New Yoik Times

August 17, 1973 – New York: Jean-Louis Hym’s Liberation shirt from Paris proclaims underground paper. Joel Handrroff, an artist, is not a country music fan, but he likes the shirt because of the black-on-yellow color scheme. Barry Levine’s extols Automotive High School. photo: Nancy Moran / New York Times

Fashions may change, but t-shirts have remained a staple of young people for more than half a century as evidenced by these photographs of young New Yorkers taken in 1973.

If you are wondering what a standard t-shirt cost in the early seventies, generally it was $1.98 for a regular t-shirt and $2.98 for a deluxe heavier cotton. Specialty t-shirts cost more. Continue reading →

Classic Hollywood #189 – Andy Griffith & Wife Barbara

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Andy Griffith & Wife Barbara On The Set Of No Time For Sergeants

Star and Wife
Andy Griffith poses happily with his wife Barbara who joined him in Hollywood when he was starring in Warner Bros. film version of the Air Force comedy “No Time For Sergeants,” which Griffith also did on the stage. The Griffiths make their home on an island farm off the North Carolina coast. photo: Warner Bros. April 17, 1958

Andy Griffith as Sir Walter Raleigh with wife Barbara Griffith in The Lost Colony. photo: New York Daily News 1954

No Time For Sergeants was a huge Broadway success, running 796 performances from 1955 -1957. Griffith would leave the show after over 300 performances to begin his motion picture career.

North Carolinian, Barbara Bray Edwards was the first of Andy Griffith’s three wives. The pair met when they were both students at The University of North Carolina. Andy and Barbara married August 26,1949.

After being graduated in 1949, Andy would teach high school music in Goldsboro, N.C..

During his third year teaching Andy realized Continue reading →

Iron Maiden’s First 5 Albums – Each LP’s Most Underrated Song

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5 Underplayed / Underrated Songs From Iron Maiden’s First Five LP’s

Iron Maiden 1981 (l-r) Steve Harris, Clive Burr, Paul Di’Anno, Adrian Smith, Dave Murray photo EMI / Robert Ellis

When this website began in 2011, I proclaimed that lists are stupid especially “best lists”. I believe they still are. “Best of” lists are always subjective.

But that doesn’t stop us Continue reading →

Old New York In Photos #191 – Madison Square Park & Flatiron Building 1903

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Madison Square Park & The Flatiron Building 1903

Our stereoview photograph from 1903 shows Madison Square Park looking south towards The Flatiron Building.

A newsboy looks over his shoulder noticing the cameraman photograhing this scene. Nearby, a woman with two children by her side pushes a carriage. Continue reading →

Book Review – Building The Metropolis By Alexander Wood

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Building New York City 1880 – 1935

A tremendous flurry of construction in New York City occurred between the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. New Yorker’s know many of the the notable accomplishments; the subway, the skyscrapers, apartment buildings, bridges and infrastructure. But who built New York? And how did it get built?

Stories Previously Untold

Alexander Wood provides the nitty-gritty about how the modern city came to be in Building The Metropolis Architecture, Construction, and Labor in New York City, 1880 – 1935 (University of Chicago Press), 2025.

Building The Metropolis digs into the architects, unions, developers and the industries that made New York.

Even with thousands of books previously written about New York, Wood uncovers ground that has not been thoroughly explored. The result is an entertaining examination into the details of developing New York. Continue reading →