Parker Display at the 1895 Sportsmen’s Exposition

[Bindlestiff]

Originally Posted by Drew Hause

A summary of the Madison Square Garden shows starts about 1/2 way down here. Some included indoor and on the roof trapshooting
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1...9wVEBQ/preview

Madison Square Garden on the roof trapshooting I wonder how that worked? The article says the roof is immense, is it really that big that one could shoot up there? Can you imagine if we.................

[Drew Hause]

Robin: there are some images here of shooting from the roof in 1900 from Metropolitan Magazine
http://www.traphof.org/People-Storie...he-clouds.html

This is a rooftop view looking at the main entrance in the 20s by the cars?



This is 1914 and a steel screen was used shooting from the roof of the Grand Central Palace on Lexington & 47th

[edgarspencer]

There have been four structures referred to as MSG. I Believe the first picture Dr. Drew shows was the one that followed the one built in 1890 (which house the 1895 show. That one was, in my mind, architecturally the nicest.

[Drew Hause]

You are correct Edgar. That is the 1890 - 1925 building.