shows that I saw at Roosevelt Stadium incllude Rod Stewart, Ten Years After, Allman Bros, J Geils Band,and Yes....saw Southside Johnny open up for The Kinks at the Capitol Theater in 1976...drove up with a friend in his 73 VW BEETLE with 2 cases od Miller nips, a bag of Acapulco Gold...during a blizzard...what a night!!! Hehe!!!

I don't rember the Band playing there. Why didn't I go?



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Just this summer my uncle was telling me about shows he saw at Roosevelt Stadium- Grateful Dead, Pink Floyd, Yes (!!) and Neil Young.

My parents have told me of seeing shows there, and of seeing the Rolling Stones in Newark! Not sure what venue there was in Newark. Maybe some of the old timers on jclist know.

There were two Roosevelt Stadium's 1 in Union City and 1 in Jersey City.

Here's some info on the JC stadium:

Roosevelt Stadium is the name of a former baseball park on N.J. Route 440 and Danforth Avenue in Jersey City, New Jersey.

It was built in 1937, as a Works Progress Administration project on the grounds of what was the Jersey City Airport. It was named for President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the author of that New Deal agency.

The stadium saw its most common use for high school football, as Jersey City's William L. Dickinson, James J. Ferris, Abraham Lincoln, Henry Snyder high schools and St. Peter?s Prep all used the stadium, particularly on Thanksgiving Day, when Dickinson and St. Peter?s would sell it out.

It was used for some "home" games by the Brooklyn Dodgers during their last couple of seasons in Brooklyn, 1956 and 1957, in part as a negotiating tactic with the Borough of Brooklyn, in pursuit of a new stadium to replace Ebbets Field. While it had just 24,000 seats as opposed to Ebbets Field's 31,497, Roosevelt Stadium had 10,000 parking spaces compared to Ebbets Field's 700. The Dodgers' negotiation came to naught, and the team moved to Los Angeles, California in 1958.

It was also the home field of the Jersey City Giants, a farm team of the New York Giants in the Triple-A International League from 1937 to 1950, the Jersey City Jerseys of the IL in 1960 and 1961, the Jersey City Indians of the Double-A Eastern League in 1977 and, following a change in minor-league affiliation, the Jersey City A's of the EL in 1978.

On April 18, 1946, Roosevelt Stadium hosted the Jersey City Giants' season opener against the Montreal Royals, marking the professional debut of the Royals' Jackie Robinson. In his five trips to the plate, Robinson made four hits, including a three-run homer, scored four runs and drove in three; he also stole two bases in the Royals 14-1 victory.

The Giants finished first in the IL in 1939 and 1947, but no Jersey City team ever went on to win a pennant in postseason play.

In 1940, former heavyweight champion Max Baer beat "Two Ton Tony" Galento at Roosevelt Stadium, and Marcel Cerdan defeated Tony Zale in a middleweight fight. In 1950, Sugar Ray Robinson defended his welterweight title; in 1951, Jersey Joe Walcott beat heavyweight champion Ezzard Charles.

The stadium saw sporadic use during its final years of existence. One of its more celebrated events was a Grateful Dead concert on August 4, 1976. The Allman Brothers Band, the Beach Boys,Pink Floyd, Eric Clapton, Yes, Kiss, Tony Bennett, and Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, among other performers, used the stadium.

It was finally demolished in 1985, and a housing development named Society Hill opened on the site in 1987.

Hey man, break out that water pipe.

29 Grateful Dead tracks live at Roosevelt Stadium 1972

So how many of those tiny little plastic baggies they sell these days would it take to fill up a 1972 water pipe?

Pro soccer teams Estudiantes from Argentina and Napoli of Italy played each other there in early 70's, needless to say the game ended in a big brawl both on the field and in the stands.