You never know where or when a story will take you to a new destination. However, the first story I posted on my old site in 2017 recently sent me on a new journey. The story, The Mystery of the Tournament Park Postcards, covered my attempts to figure out the events depicted in a handful of postcards from the early 1920s. The real photo postcards (RPPCs) showed an Army and Navy crowd at a football stadium in Pasadena in 1921, a year when the Army-Navy game occurred in New York City. I eventually figured out the game happened on Armistice Day at Tournament Park in Pasadena between all-star teams representing the Pacific Fleet and the Ninth Army Corps. Armistice Day games between the Army and Navy continued in one form or another until WWII and sometimes garnered crowds of 50,000 or more.
Wow that was really cool and really deep in the history of this early player