Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Madison Sq. Garden #2

6 comments:

Little John said...

Is that a picket line at the box office?

Frank Ferrante said...

Yes, that's a picket line and the sign says, "ON STRIKE" I remember opening the Nassau Coliseum in '72 (?), the was 40 YEARS AGO!!! ~frank

Chic Silber said...


Yes those few fellows are clearly

carrying strike signs but I can't

read the organization involved

This by the way was the 3rd Garden

(& the favorite of some of us)

Chic Silber said...


Some of us may remember the AF of M

pickets during the late 70s when

a charter was obtained for a rival

musicians union & who remembers

"Caspet Music" & the added security

Chic Silber said...


When the Nassau Coliseum was about

to open the permanent sound system

was far from completion & there

was no penalty provision included

in the contract (I think it was the

DuKane Company) so the powers that

were politically in charge came to

me to provide a temporary system

to allow them to get open on time

That custom system designed by the

respected engineer John Karlson

was in use there for about 10 weeks

It became my seasonal installation

in the Venice Arena for many years

I have all of the components yet

(I don't recall any pickets Frank)

Frank Ferrante said...

The picket ref was for the MSG, not Nassau.