A miniature recreation of Ebbets Field
From Bob Duff at The Windsor Star on July 6, 2012:
Every one of the 31,000 green-coloured seat bottoms fold up.
Each of the 1,000 lights illuminate brightly.
It’s so realistic you half expect the toilets to flush.
Ebbets Field, home to the long-lost Brooklyn Dodgers, was levelled in 1960, but it’s been reborn in, of all places, a studio in Oldcastle.
A year ago, Mark Williams, owner and head designer of Imagine That Laser Art Products, was commissioned to build a 1-48th scale replica of the legendary ballpark, home to the Dodgers, or Dem Bums, as they were lovingly known in those days, from 1913-57.
About a month from completion, to see it up close is to look upon a masterpiece of miniature model construction.
“It is museum quality,” Williams said proudly. “You won’t find anything like it anywhere.”
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Originally published: July 10, 2012. Last Updated: July 10, 2012.