WHAT IS THE CRAZIEST EVENT YOU HAVE EVER WORKED? If you worked in Chicago....you might agree with me that it might be, it could be, it had to be......DISCO DEMOLITION NIGHT! 1979, and the White Sox arent that good, and not drawing well {what else is new] So, the Sox were looking for gimmicks to get people into the park At that time, Chicago had its own Howard Stern {shock jock} broadcasting on the radio. His name was Steve Dahl. Dahl hated disco music and wanted to see it all destroyed. The Sox came up with an idea....why not have Dahl and his legion of followers come out to a ball game and ....blow up disco records? It was decided that this would take place between games of a double header with the Tigers {once upon a time there were actually scheduled doubleheaders....or this could have been added to accommodate a rain out?} So, the park was packed...I think they drew around 50,000 that night. Beer was a passout!! And then the show between games started, and Dahl whipped everyone up into a frenzy! People ran out onto the field...and so did at least one other vendor {Evan Pomeroy} and me...and I am sure there were others! I sold a few fans on the field ...out near second base. Then a nut came by and tried to knock my cap off! It dawned on me....that someone could try to rob me out here, or take a bottle and attempt to kill me or something. The crowd got wilder and wilder!! I panicked and headed back toward the stands...like a minow trying to swim upstream as more people came onto the field. I went into the commissary to wait it out. The second game never was played...with.the field a mess, the Sox had to forfeit!! {perhaps vendor historian Lloyd Rutzky...has numbers on how we did that night....Lloyd was always seeing how many loads guys did and recorded it down. To this day...I know that he still has many of those records..buried somewhere in his home! Let me take you back to that crazy night....enjoy!! https://youtube/watch?v=I1CP1751wJA
Posted on: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 03:28:08 +0000
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