About This Item
- TitleThe aloha kids
- Call NumberDODG_0910
- Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
- SummaryFour members of the Brooklyn Dodgers celebrating pennant victory by pretending to play instruments (lap steel guitar, guitar, drum, and string bass) for hula dancer in hotel ballroom at 48th Street and Lexington Avenue in Manhattan. Caption on verso: "The Aloha Kids: New kind of teamwork is displayed as Dodger band provides music for curve-throwing hula dancer Loma Duke at last night's victory celebration at Hotel Lexington. Musicians, left to right, are Duke Snider, Pee Wee Reese, Carl Erskine and Carl Furillo."
- Date1953
- Formatstill image
- Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
- Genregelatin silver printsphotographic prints
- NoteOn verso: date stamped: Sep. 19, 1953; Brooklyn Eagle stamp. Title from caption on verso.
- CreatorBrooklyn Eagle
- Publisher[Brooklyn Eagle]
- SubjectSnider, Duke, 1926-2011 ; Reese, Pee Wee, 1918-1999 ; Erskine, Carl ; Furillo, Carl, 1922-1989 ; Brooklyn Dodgers (Baseball team) ; Baseball players -- New York (State) -- New York ; Hula dancers -- New York (State) -- New York
- CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
- PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)New York (N.Y.)
- RightsCopyright restrictions apply to the use of this work. For more information or to obtain a reproduction of this work, contact the Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library.