During a pregame ceremony at Shea Stadium to honor the Army’s 200th birthday, cannons loaded with blanks blew out panels of the outfield fence.

The neon signs that once illuminated Hong Kong have mostly gone dark, but Jive Lau is preserving the craft of neon making with his ambitious designs and sculptures.

The neon light-up “CARYTOWN” sign is experiencing a partial blackout again.

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The Mets, Yankees, Jets and Giants all played at Shea Stadium in the same year.

For roughly the first 20 years of the city’s existence, there was no neon. Neon signs came to Las Vegas in the late 1920s, according to Emily Fellmer, senior collections manager at The Neon Museum.

On August 15, 1965, the modern stadium rock concert was born with The Beatles' outdoor show at New York's packed Shea Stadium.

Shea Stadium during a Mets-Giants game on May 31, 1964. Credit: AP/John Lindsay But when it all started, the modern new stadium and modern new fair site were inextricably linked.

It took 29 months to plan and construct Shea Stadium and it wasn’t even fully complete when the Mets hosted the Pittsburgh Pirates on April 17, 1964. At the time, the planes flying into ...