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Former stadium in San Francisco, California

Candlestick Park

"The Stick"

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Former names Harney Stadium (1956–1959)
Candlestick Park (1960–1995, 2008–2013)
3Com Park at Candlestick Point (1995–2002)
San Francisco Stadium at Candlestick Signal (2002–2004)
Monster Park (2004–2008)
Address 602 Jamestown Avenue
Location San Francisco, California
Coordinates 37°42′49″N 122°23′10″W  /  37.71361°N 122.38611°W  / 37.71361; -122.38611 Coordinates: 37°42′49″N 122°23′10″West  /  37.71361°N 122.38611°Westward  / 37.71361; -122.38611
Public transit BSicon LOGO SFmuni.svg Gilman/Paul T Third Street
Owner Urban center and County of San Francisco
Operator San Francisco Recreation & Parks Section
Chapters 43,765 (1960)
63,000 (Baseball game)
69,732[v] (Football)
Field size Left field
330 ft (1960), 335 ft
Left-middle field &
Right-eye field
397 ft (1960), 365 ft[6]
Centre field
420 ft (1960), 400 ft
Right field
330 ft (1960), 328 ft
Backstop
73 ft (1960), 66 ft
Surface Bluegrass (1960–1969, 1979–2013)
AstroTurf (1970–1978)
Construction
Broke footing August 12, 1958[ane]
Opened Apr 12, 1960
Closed August fourteen, 2014
Demolished February 4 – September 24, 2015
Construction cost United states$15 million
($131 million in 2020 dollars[2])
Builder John Bolles & Associates
Structural engineer Chin and Hensolt, Inc.[3]
General contractor Charles Harney Co.[4]
Tenants
San Francisco Giants (MLB) (1960–1999)
San Francisco 49ers (NFL) (1971–2013)
Oakland Raiders (AFL) (1960–1961)
San Francisco Gold Gate Gales (United states of america) (1967)

Candlestick Park was an outdoor sports and entertainment stadium on the Due west Coast of the U.s.a., located in San Francisco'southward Bayview Heights surface area. The stadium was originally the home of Major League Baseball's San Francisco Giants, who played there from 1960 until moving into Pacific Bell Park (since renamed Oracle Park) in 2000. It was too the home field of the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football game League from 1971 through 2013. The 49ers moved to Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara for the 2014 season. The terminal event held at Candlestick was a concert by Paul McCartney in August 2014, and the sabotage of the stadium was completed in September 2015. Every bit of 2019, the site is planned to exist redeveloped into role space.[7]

The stadium was situated at Candlestick Point on the western shore of San Francisco Bay. Candlestick Point was named for the "candlestick birds" (long-billed curlews) that populated the area for many years. Due to Candlestick Park'south location next to the bay, potent winds ofttimes swirled downwards into the stadium, creating unusual playing conditions. At the time of its construction in the late 1950s, the stadium site was ane of the few pieces of land available in the urban center that was suitable for a sports stadium, and had space for the 10,000 parking spaces that had been promised to the Giants.

The surface of the field for nearly of its being was natural bluegrass, but for nine seasons, from 1970 to 1978, the stadium had artificial turf. A "sliding pit" configuration, with dirt cut-outs only around the bases, was installed in 1971, primarily to continue the dust down in the breezy weather condition. Post-obit the 1978 football season, the playing surface was restored to natural grass.

Park history [edit]

When the New York Giants arrived in San Francisco in 1958, they played their home games at the old Seals Stadium at 16th and Bryant Streets. As part of the agreement regarding the Giants' relocation to the West Coast, the city of San Francisco promised to build a new stadium for the team. Most of the land at Candlestick Point was purchased from Charles Harney, a local contractor. Harney purchased the land in 1952 for a quarry and industrial development. He made a turn a profit of over $2 million when he sold the land for the stadium. Harney received a no-bid contract to build the stadium. The unabridged deal was the subject of a one thousand jury investigation in 1958.

Ground was broken in 1958 for the stadium and the Giants selected the proper noun of Candlestick Park, after a proper noun-the-park competition on March 3, 1959 (for the derivation of which, meet below). Prior to the choice of the name, its construction site had been shown on maps as the generic Bay View Stadium .[8] It was the first modern baseball stadium, every bit it was the showtime to be built entirely of reinforced physical.[9] And so-Vice President Richard Nixon threw out the ceremonial commencement pitch on the opening mean solar day of Candlestick Park on Apr 12, 1960, and the Oakland Raiders played the terminal three games of the 1960 season[10] and their unabridged 1961 American Football League season at Candlestick. With only 77 home runs hit in 1960 (46 by Giants, 31 past visitors), the fences were moved in, from left-center to correct-center, for the 1961 flavour.[6]

Post-obit the 1970 season, the first with AstroTurf, Candlestick was enclosed, with grandstands around the outfield. This was in training for the 49ers in 1971, who were moving from their long-fourth dimension dwelling of Kezar Stadium. The result was that the current of air speed dropped marginally, merely frequently swirled irregularly throughout the stadium, and the view of San Francisco Bay was lost.

Candlestick every bit seen shortly after it was built in its original open grandstand configuration before being enclosed

Candlestick played host to two Major League Baseball game All-Star Games in its life as habitation for the Giants. The stadium hosted the showtime of two games in 1961 and later hosted the 1984 All-Star Game. The Giants played a total of six postseason serial at Candlestick; they played host to the NLCS in 1971, 1987, and 1989, the World Series in 1962 and 1989, and one NLDS in 1997.

The 49ers hosted 8 NFC Championship games during their time at Candlestick. The first was in January 1982 when Dwight Clark caught a game-winning touchdown pass from Joe Montana to lead the 49ers to their first Super Bowl by defeating the Dallas Cowboys. Clark'south play went downwards every bit one of the more famous in football history, and was dubbed "The Catch". The terminal of these came in January 2012, when Lawrence Tynes kicked a field goal in overtime to defeat the 49ers and ship the New York Giants to their 5th Super Basin. The terminal postseason game hosted past the 49ers at Candlestick was the Bounded Playoff matchup between the 49ers and the Greenish Bay Packers, won past the 49ers past a score of 45-31. The 49ers' record in NFC Championship games at Candlestick was 4-4; they defeated the Cowboys twice, in 1981 and 1994, the Chicago Bears in 1984, and the Los Angeles Rams in 1989. Their losses came against the Cowboys in 1992, the Giants in 1990 and 2011, and the Packers in 1997.

In addition to Clark'south famous touchdown catch, two more plays referred to as "The Take hold of" took place during games at Candlestick. The play dubbed "The Catch 2" came in the 1998 Wild Menu round, every bit Steve Young institute Terrell Owens for a touchdown with viii seconds left to defeat the two-time defending NFC Champion Packers. The play called "The Catch III" came in the 2011 Divisional Playoffs, when Alex Smith threw a touchdown laissez passer to Vernon Davis with nine seconds remaining to provide the winning margin against the New Orleans Saints.

On October 17, 1989, the Loma Prieta earthquake (measuring seven.one on the Richter Scale) struck San Francisco, minutes before Game 3 of the Globe Serial was to begin at Candlestick. No one within the stadium was injured, although minor structural damage was incurred to the stadium. Al Michaels and Tim McCarver, who called the game for ABC, later credited the stadium'southward design for saving thousands of lives.[nine] An ESPN documentary about the earthquake revealed that the local stadium authority demanded that Candlestick Park undertake a major engineering projection to shore up perceived safety red flags in the stadium. The dominance pushed reluctant officials to get this done between the 1988 and 1989 baseball seasons, which prevented a "collapse moving ridge" that would accept killed thousands of fans and led to in that location being very few casualties of any kind in Candlestick later such a massive natural disaster. The Earth Series between the Giants and their Bay rivals the Oakland A's was afterwards delayed for 10 days, in office to requite engineers time to check the stadium'due south overall structural soundness (and that of the A'southward nearby home, the Oakland–Alameda Canton Coliseum). During this time, the 49ers moved their game against the New England Patriots on October 22 to Stanford Stadium, where they had defeated the Miami Dolphins 38–16 to win Super Basin XIX on January xx, 1985.

The NFL awarded Super Bowl XXXIII to Candlestick Park on November 2, 1994.[eleven] Candlestick Park had planned to make major renovations in preparation for the game; when that did not happen, the NFL owners awarded Super Basin XXXIII to the Miami area during their October 31, 1996 meeting in New Orleans.

Candlestick Park upper deck expansion in progress during 1971 baseball season. Annotation the bogus turf then in use.

In 2000, the Giants moved to the new Pacific Bell Park (at present called Oracle Park) in the China Basin neighborhood, leaving the 49ers every bit the sole professional sports team to use Candlestick. The last baseball was played on September 30, 1999, against long-time rivals the Los Angeles Dodgers, who won 9–4. In that game, all 9 Dodgers starters had at least one base hit, while the stadium'due south last dwelling run came from Dodgers' right fielder Raúl Mondesí in the 6th inning. The National League rivalry between the Giants and Dodgers, i of the oldest and most hotly contested in the Major Leagues, dated dorsum to when both teams were based in New York City. When get-go the Dodgers, then the Giants, moved to California in 1958, the rivalry continued unabated.

For its last several years every bit habitation to only the 49ers, Candlestick Park was the only remaining NFL stadium to have begun as a baseball-only facility which afterwards underwent an extensive redesign to accommodate football. That was evidenced by the stadium'due south curiously ellipsoidal and irregular shape, whereby views from a sizable section of lower-deck seating in the baseball game configuration's right-field corner were so badly obstructed by the eastern grandstand of the football seating configuration that they were unusable for football game games and would consequently sit empty. Since a football gridiron, including its end zones and benches forth the sidelines, is much smaller than a baseball playing field and foul territory, this large grandstand, which provided thousands of prime seats along 1 whole sideline of the football field, was designed to be retractable. It would slide backwards for baseball game games, under the upper deck, and provide a smaller section of baseball seating across the outfield wall in right. Subsequently the Giants played their 1999 season and moved abroad from Candlestick, this grandstand was left permanently in its football position, and the unusable seats were eventually removed.

On September 3, 2011, Candlestick Park hosted the first and merely college football game game in its history with a neutral site game between the California Golden Bears and Fresno Country Bulldogs (Cal was designated the "abode" team).[12] [13] This game was in San Francisco, because of the massive renovation and seismic retrofit at California's home stadium, California Memorial Stadium. The rest of the Golden Bears' home games in 2011 were played at AT&T Park. Cal won the game 36–21.[14]

At approximately 5:19 p.m. local time on December xix, 2011, Candlestick Park experienced an unexpected power outage just before a Monday Night Football game game between the 49ers and the Pittsburgh Steelers. An aerial shot shown live on ESPN showed a transformer sparking and then the stadium going completely dark. Virtually 17 minutes later, however, the park's lights came back on in fourth dimension for the game's kickoff. With 12:thirteen remaining in the 2nd quarter, some other ability outage created yet another 30-minute filibuster before play resumed over again. The 49ers 2011 season concluded at Candlestick Park with a loss to the New York Giants in the NFC Championship Game.

The 49ers played their final game at Candlestick Park on Monday, December 23, 2013 against the Atlanta Falcons, winning 34–24 after a NaVorro Bowman interception that would be called The Pick at the Stick by some sports columnists.[fifteen] This game was the facility's 36th and final game on Mon Nighttime Football game,[16] the well-nigh at whatever stadium used by the NFL.[17]

Candlestick Park in September 2008

Reputation [edit]

As a baseball field, the stadium was infamous for the windy conditions, damp air and dew from fog, and chilly temperatures. The wind often made information technology difficult for outfielders trying to catch wing balls, equally well as for fans, while the damp grass further complicated play for outfielders who had to play in cold, wet shoes. Architect John Bolles designed the park with a boomerang-shaped physical baffle in the upper tier in society to protect the park from wind. Unfortunately, it never worked properly. For Candlestick's offset 10 seasons, the current of air blew in from left-center and out toward right-eye. When the park was expanded to accommodate the 49ers in 1971, it was thought that fully enclosing the park would cut down on the wind significantly. Instead, the wind swirled from all directions, and was equally strong and cold as before. Giants Hall of Fame center fielder Willie Mays claimed the wind toll him over 100 home runs. (Information technology may be noted that in the 12 years he played at Candlestick Park, from 1960 through 1971, Mays striking 396 home runs, 203 at Candlestick and 193 on the road.[18]) Nonetheless, he had less difficulty fielding balls in the windy conditions. Mays was used to playing in difficult conditions. He'd begun his career at the Polo Grounds in New York, which featured an enormous outfield.

During the beginning All Star Game of 1961 (ane of two played in the park—the other was in 1984), Giants pitcher Stu Miller was blown off balance by a gust of wind and was charged with a balk.[19] Two years after, air current picked up the unabridged batting cage and dropped it threescore feet (18 m) abroad on the pitcher's mound while the New York Mets were taking batting do.

A Giants game at Candlestick in 1965

The stadium as well had the reputation as the coldest park in Major League Baseball, with winds bravado straight off the Pacific Bounding main. It was initially built with a radiant heating system of hot water pipes under the lower box seats in a space betwixt the physical and the basis. The pipes were not embedded in the concrete, however, and did not produce enough heat to start the common cold air. Both the city and the Giants aghast at the price of upgrading the system so it would work properly, which would accept involved removing the seats and concrete, embedding larger pipes, and replacing the physical and seats. As a consequence, the Giants played more solar day games than any Major League Baseball team except the Chicago Cubs, whose ballpark, Wrigley Field, did non have lights installed until 1988. Many locals, including Giants' broadcaster Lon Simmons, were surprised at the decision to build the park right on the bay, in one of the coldest areas of the city.[9] Attorney Melvin Belli filed a claim confronting the Giants in 1960 because his six-seat box, which cost him almost $1,600, was unbearably cold. Belli won in courtroom, challenge that the "radiant heating system" advertised was a failure.[20]

The Giants eventually played on the reputation to bolster fan support with humorous promotions such as application the 'Croix de Candlestick' pin to fans who stayed for the elapsing of extra-inning nighttime games. The pins featured the Giants' "SF" monogram capped with snow, along with the Latin slogan "Veni, vidi, vixi" ("I came, I saw, I survived"). Amid many less-than-flattering fan nicknames for the park were "North Pole", "Cave of the Winds", "Windlestick", "The Quagmire", and "The Ashtray By The Bay." Older fans called it "The Dump" in honor of the former use of the land. Ironically, the Giants played their terminal dark game at Candlestick (against the Los Angeles Dodgers) on September 29, 1999, under clear skies and a game time temperature of 74°[21] besides as their last mean solar day game at Candlestick on September 30, 1999, under bluish skies with no fog and a game time temperature of 82°, all of which was common for September games.

Giants owner Horace Stoneham visited the site every bit early as 1957 and was involved in the stadium'southward pattern from the first. While he was aware of the weather conditions, he usually visited the park during the day, not knowing about the particularly cold, windy and foggy weather condition that overtook it at night. Originally, Bolles' concrete baffle would accept extended all the manner to left field, which would accept further reduced the prevailing winds. However, the size of the construction was reduced for cost savings. In 1962, Stoneham commissioned a study of the air current conditions. The written report revealed that had the windy atmospheric condition been known prior to construction, conditions would have been significantly improved by building the park 100 yards further to the north and eastward.[9] [22] This would have meant building information technology on fill, however, which is less stable during earthquakes. The stadium's location on the bedrock of Bayview Hill provided more stability.

The winds were intense in the immediate expanse of the park. Studies showed they were no more frequent than other parts of San Francisco but are subject to higher gusts. This is considering of a hill immediately adjacent to the park. This hill, in plow, is the kickoff topographical obstacle met by the prevailing winds arriving from the Pacific Ocean vii miles (11 km) to the westward. Arriving at Candlestick from the Pacific, these winds travel through what is known as the Alemany Gap before reaching the colina. The combination of body of water winds free-flowing to Candlestick, so swirling over the adjacent hill, created the cold and windy weather condition that were the blight of the Giants' 40-year stay on Candlestick Point. It was indeed the current of air and not the ambient air temperature that provided Candlestick'due south famed chill. The Giants' subsequent home, Oracle Park, is just one degree warmer, simply is far less windy, creating a "warmer" (relatively speaking) outcome. While the wind is a summer condition (hot inland, cool oceanside), winter weather is right in line with the remainder of sea level Northern California (mild with occasional rain).

Other blueprint flaws and irregularities [edit]

Candlestick was an object of scorn from baseball game purists for reasons other than weather condition. Although originally congenital for baseball, foul territory was quite roomy. According to Simmons, nearly every seat was too far from the field even earlier the 1971 expansion.[ix] As with the radiant heating arrangement in the grandstands, the heating systems in the dugouts were wholly inadequate. Players on other National League teams – especially if they had played for the Giants beforehand – complained that the visitors dugout was noticeably colder than the Giants' dugout. That was due to ii factors. I was that the Giants' dugout included a tunnel to the clubhouse, so heat from the clubhouse flowed into the dugout. The other involved the placement of the dugouts. The Giants' dugout was located on the showtime base side, which was on the south side of the stadium. The visitors' dugout was located on the third base of operations (west) side of the field.

Notable events [edit]

Concerts [edit]

Engagement Creative person Opening human activity(s) Tour / Concert proper name Attendance Revenue Notes
August 29, 1966 The Beatles
  • The Remains
  • Bobby Hebb
  • The Cyrkle
  • The Ronettes
 1966 US bout 25,000 — An "official" bootleg recording of the 11-vocal, 33-infinitesimal setlist was made by the Beatles' printing officer, Tony Barrow, at the request of the band. As his cassette could but record 30 minutes per side, information technology ran out in the centre of the endmost song, "Long Tall Sally".[23]
October 17, 1981 Rolling Stones
  • George Thorogood & the Destroyers
  • The J Geils Band
 American Bout 1981 135,000 / 135,000 $2,092,500
Oct 18, 1981
June 1, 1985 Jimmy Buffett — Sleepless Knights Tour — —
July 17, 1988 Van Halen
Scorpions
  • Metallica
  • Dokken
  • Kingdom Come
 Monsters of Stone Tour 1988 — — A stadium-broad food fight took identify aimed solely at the upper deck. Opening act Kingdom Come played for 45 minutes, Metallica and Dokken played for hour each, Scorpions played for 75 minutes, and Van Halen for 100 minutes.
July xiv, 2000 Metallica
  • Korn
  • Kid Stone
  • Powerman 5000
  • Arrangement Of A Down
 Summer Sanitarium Tour — —
August ten, 2003
  • Limp Bizkit
  • Linkin Park
  • Deftones
  • Mudvayne
July 26, 2013 Justin Timberlake
Jay-Z		 DJ Cassidy Legends of the Summer 55,359 / 55,359 $5,129,345
August 14, 2014 Paul McCartney — Out At that place 53,477 / 53,477 $7,023,107 The stadium's concluding concert.[24]

The Beatles' final concert [edit]

The Beatles famously gave their last full public concert at Candlestick Park on August 29, 1966. Songs performed at the show were "Rock and Whorl Music", "She's a Adult female", "If I Needed Someone", "Day Tripper", "Infant'southward in Blackness", "I Experience Fine", "Yesterday", "I Wanna Be Your Homo", "Nowhere Man", "Paperback Author", and "Long Tall Sally".

An "official" bootleg recording of the 33-minute setlist was made by the Beatles' press officer, Tony Barrow, at the asking of the band. As his cassette could only record 30 minutes per side, it ran out with a minute of the closing song, "Long Alpine Emerge", remaining.[23] This recording has never been officially released, although it has been leaked on to the internet.

At the time, The Beatles had not announced that this was to be their final concert, and even if the foursome themselves knew, it was a closely guarded secret. Much of the existing color picture footage of the concert was captured by a 15-year-old Beatles fan, Barry Hood. A relatively small amount of black-and-white footage was shot past local Television receiver news in the San Francisco Bay Area and Sacramento. Hood released some of his film in a limited edition documentary titled The Beatles Alive In San Francisco,[25] only more of Hood'south very rare footage remains in a vault, unseen by the public equally of 2017.[25] On Baronial 14, 2014, former Beatle Paul McCartney returned one last time to become the closing act of Candlestick Park's long musical history. To showcase the result, McCartney contacted Barry Hood and used a portion of his original 1966 Beatles film on a big screen at this final concert.

Papal Mass [edit]

Pope John Paul Ii celebrated a Papal Mass on September xviii, 1987 at Candlestick Park during his tour of America.[26] [27] An estimated oversupply of 70,000 attended the Mass.[28]

In popular civilization [edit]

Candlestick Park was too home to dozens of commercial shoots as well as the location for the climactic scene in both the 1962 thriller Experiment in Terror and the 1974 Richard Rush one-act Freebie and the Edible bean. 1976 Muddy Harry movie The Enforcer. In Feb 2011, scenes for the moving picture Contagion, starring Matt Damon, Kate Winslet and Jude Law, were filmed at the stadium. The Fan was likewise filmed there in 1996. In 2010, Candlestick Park was featured as the finishing point for the finale of The Amazing Race xvi.[29]

Seating capacity [edit]

Proper name changes [edit]

Candlestick Park was located nearly 6 miles (9.7 km) due south of downtown, pictured here in 1985.

Some think that Candlestick Point was named for the ethnic "candlestick bird" (long-billed curlew), once common to the indicate.[30] The book "California Geographic Names" lists Candlestick Point equally being named for a pinnacle of rock commencement noted in 1781 by the De Anza Trek. This pinnacle was also noted by the U.S. Geodetic Survey in 1869. The superlative disappeared around 1920.

The rights to the stadium proper name were licensed to 3Com Corporation from September 1995 until 2002, for $900,000 a year. During that time, the park became known as "3Com Park at Candlestick Point", or, only, "3Com Park". In 2002, the naming rights bargain expired, and the park and then became officially known as "San Francisco Stadium at Candlestick Bespeak". On September 28, 2004, a new naming rights bargain was signed with Monster Cablevision, a maker of cables for electronic equipment, and the stadium was renamed "Monster Park". But over a month later, nevertheless, a measure passed in the November 2 election stipulated that the stadium name revert to "Candlestick" permanently subsequently the contract with Monster expired in 2008.[31]

The City and County of San Francisco had trouble finding a new naming sponsor due in part to the downturn in the economy, merely likewise because the stadium'south tenure equally 3Com Park was tenuous at best. Many local fans were bellyaching with the alter and connected referring to the park by its original proper noun, regardless of the official name. The Giants reportedly continued to call the stadium "Candlestick Park" in media guides, because the naming rights were initiated past the 49ers. Some even mocked the 3Com sponsorship. Chris Berman, for example, usually chosen it "Commercial-Stick Park." Local fans sometimes called information technology "Dot-com Park" (encounter Dot-com bubble). Freeway signs in the vicinity were changed to read "Monster Park" as office of an overall signage upgrade to national standards on California highways, but in 2008 those signs were changed back to "Candlestick Park".

The proper name alter also ended up being confusing for the intended branding purposes, every bit without the "Cable" qualifier in the official name, many erroneously idea the stadium was named for the Monster.com employment website or Monster Energy Drinkable, not the cablevision vendor.[32]

On August 10, 2007, San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom appear that the playing field would be renamed "Neb Walsh Field" in honor of the sometime Stanford and 49ers coach, who died on July 30 that twelvemonth, awaiting the approval of the city government. The stadium itself retained its name every bit was contractually obligated.[33] Commentators still use this name occasionally, almost recently when Jerry Rice's jersey was retired.

On September 18, 2009, Sports Illustrated 's Peter Rex used the mock-combination name "Candle3Monsterstick" in reference to the many proper noun changes the stadium has gone through.[34]

Despite numerous official and unofficial name changes over the history of the stadium and surrounding park/facilities, the stadium is lovingly referred to as "the Stick" by many locals and dice-hard fans since its original titling of "Candlestick Park" in 1960.

Replacement and sabotage [edit]

By 1997, plans were underway to construct a new 68,000-seat stadium at Candlestick Point.[35] On Nov 8, 2006, nevertheless, the 49ers announced that they would abandon their search for a location in San Francisco and begin to pursue the thought of building a stadium in Santa Clara. Because its centerpiece stadium was lost, San Francisco withdrew its bid for the 2016 Olympics on November 13, 2006. Footing-breaking for the Santa Clara stadium occurred on Apr 19, 2012. On May 8, 2013, the media appear that the proper name of the new stadium would exist Levi'southward Stadium. The stadium opened on July 17, 2014, in fourth dimension for the 2014 NFL flavour. The 49ers christened their new dwelling house a month after information technology opened.

A grassroots movement for the Giants to play another baseball game at Candlestick had existed since 2009. Many fans had hoped to meet some other game in 2010, the 50th anniversary of the Giants' showtime season at Candlestick Park, simply the idea was dropped due to the toll. Although many fans wished for another Giants game at the Stick, the Giants never returned to their quondam stadium for a final game.

With the difference of the 49ers, Candlestick Park was left without any permanent tenants. Demolition was expected to occur soon later on the 49ers played their concluding game of the 2013 season, but over time the engagement of demolition was moved back to late 2014, with several special events planned for the intervening flow.[36] In April 2014, Paul McCartney appear that he would perform a concert as the last scheduled event in the 54-year-old stadium on August 14, 2014.[37] The Beatles had performed their concluding scheduled concert at Candlestick Park 48 years earlier.

Demolition began in November 2014 as workers tore out seats.[38] In January 2015, the developer withdrew a request to implode the stadium, perchance to be circulate as part of the Super Bowl halftime amusement. Instead, mechanized structural demolition commenced, which was favored over implosion due to local dust pollution concerns.[39] Demolition was expected to be complete by March 2015,[40] [41] but was not completed until September 24, 2015.

In 2014, i,000 celebrated Candlestick Park Stadium seats were installed at Kezar Stadium for the public to enjoy. The renovation was funded past the City'due south Upper-case letter Planning General Fund. Mayor Edwin Chiliad. Lee helped re-open the stadium with a warm-upwards run.[42]

In December 2016, 4,000 additional historic Candlestick seats were acquired and installed at Kezar. The seats were paid for past the San Francisco Deltas as a part of a $1-1000000 improvement the team agreed upon to make use of the stadium.[43]

In Nov 2014, Lennar Corporation and Macerich announced plans to build a dense "urban outlet" center incorporating retail and housing with underground parking on the Candlestick Park site. The proponents suggested that the new evolution would be completed in 2017.[44] The project has non proceeded, and the plan was suspended by its proponents in April 2018.[45]

Croix de Candlestick [edit]

VENI•VIDI•VIXI "I came, I saw, I survived."

The Croix de Candlestick is an award pivot that was given out to baseball fans as they exited Candlestick Park at the conclusion of a nighttime game that went extra innings.[46] [47] In reference to the ballpark's legendarily cold winds, the pin carried the motto, "Veni, Vidi, Vixi" ("I came, I saw, I survived").[48]

In order to receive a pin, the fans would take to redeem their ticket stub for the pin at Patrick & Co. Stationery shop in San Francisco. The pivot, developed past team marketing manager Patrick J. Gallagher, was get-go issued in 1983. In 1983 the San Francisco Giants played in five actress inning night games,[49] with a full omnipresence of lxx,933 and in 1984 they played in five extra inning nighttime games[fifty] with a total attendance of 44,031. The pin was given out for several years. On September 28–30, 1999, tens of thousands of fans received the pin for attending the Giants' final three-game dwelling house stand at Candlestick, against the squad's archrival, the Los Angeles Dodgers.[51] [52] A San Francisco Chronicle columnist later chosen it "the smartest marketing promotional in Bay Area history".[53]

"Mayor Ed Lee...: I'1000 a real San Franciscan, considering I've EARNED a Croix de Candlestick and whenever I hear the phrase "the catch" I have to take a moment..."[54]

"They don't give out a Croix de Candlestick to fans who stay 'til the biting end at Levi's, or fifty-fifty a Croix de Fiddlesticks, but this time the late birds got their reward."[55]

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External links [edit]

  • www.ballparks.phanfare.com photos and info about Candlestick park
  • Sports Illustrated comprehend – July 18, 1960
  • Photos of demolition in progress, May 2015
  • Gallery of images from the park'south history
Events and tenants
Preceded by

Kezar Stadium

 Home of the San Francisco 49ers
1971–2013 		Succeeded past

Levi's Stadium
Preceded by

Seals Stadium

 Home of the San Francisco Giants
1960–1999 		Succeeded by

AT&T Park
Preceded by

Yankee Stadium
Comiskey Park

 Host of the MLB All-Star Game
1961
1984 		Succeeded by

Fenway Park
Metrodome
Preceded by

Kezar Stadium

 Dwelling of the Oakland Raiders
1961 		Succeeded past

Frank Youell Field
Preceded by

Veterans Stadium
RFK Stadium
Soldier Field
RFK Stadium
Texas Stadium
Lambeau Field
Soldier Field

 Host of NFC Title Game
1982
1985
1990–1991
1993
1995
1998
2012 		Succeeded by

RFK Stadium
Soldier Field
RFK Stadium
Texas Stadium
Texas Stadium
Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome
Georgia Dome

and That Baby's Gone! for an Athletics Home Run.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candlestick_Park