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A Night at the Gardens - Class, Gender, and Respectability in 1930s Toronto (Hardcover)
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A Night at the Gardens - Class, Gender, and Respectability in 1930s Toronto (Hardcover)
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When Toronto’s Maple Leaf Gardens opened in 1931, manager Conn
Smythe envisioned an arena that would project an aura of
middle-class respectability. In A Night at the Gardens, Russell
Field shares how this new arena anticipated spectators by examining
varying spectator behaviours, who the spectators were, and what the
experience of spectating was like. Drawing on archival records, the
book explores the neighbourhood in which Maple Leaf Gardens was
situated, the design of the arena’s interior spaces, and the ways
in which it was operated in order to appeal to respectable
spectators at a particular intersection of class and gender.
Examining a ticket ledger compiled by arena staff for the 1933–34
National Hockey League season, the book reveals that the average
subscriber purchased more than two tickets, suggesting that
attending hockey games was a social experience. It also shows that
while ticket subscribers were overwhelmingly middle-class men,
women were also present. Oral history interviews with twenty-one
former spectators at the Maple Leaf Gardens detail the experience
of watching the spectacle that unfolded on the ice during each
hockey game. A Night at the Gardens tells the fascinating story of
how one prominent public building became such an important part of
Toronto society.
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