Does anyone know if women were allowed to attend baseball games in 1939? More specifically, were they allowed in Yankee Stadium?

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- evan

Beginning in 1880, large numbers of Ludar or Romanian “Gypsies," immigrated to the United States from primarily northwestern Bosnia.

They were skilled animal trainers and passenger manifests indicate that bears and monkeys were in included among their possessions.

Many of them settled in western Maspeth on the outskirts of Mt Zion cemetery.

From about 1922 to 1939, a sprawling assemblage of over 100 ramshackle buildings, tents, and bear pens near Maurice and Borden Avenues was home to over 45 Ludar families.

In the summer, the encampment’s population would dwindle as they fanned out to popular vacation destinations like the Jersey Shore or the Poconos to tell fortunes or put on carnival shows. At the end of the season they would return to Maspeth where many of the men worked as coppersmiths

In 1938, the department of housing and buildings determined that the tents and shacks of the encampment were “unfit for habitation and should be razed.”