Helmet Day collection-nautical The eatery sprang up during

The eatery sprang up during the Atomic Age

the apron features the New York Times Cooking logo

This hat features a black brim and is one size fits most

exotic restaurants and a rooftop garden

the United States and Britain set up "Operation Vittles" - the airlift of food and other essentials into the city

Helmet Day collection-nautical The eatery sprang up duringLong before baseball teams started giving away bobbleheads and souvenir cups like candy, there was Helmet Day at Shea Stadium. Some 54,424 spectators, the largest crowd of the season, packed the ballpark in Queens for a New York Mets game and a free helmet on May 30, 1970. They gave out 37,212 plastic batting helmets to the small ones in the crowd on a cool and sunny Memorial Day afternoon, wrote The Times after the Mets beat the Houston Astros, 4 3.