My wife and I attended a Giants game in Candlestick many years ago while on vacation in San Francisco. The thing I remember most about our experience was the weather. We had left Raleigh NC early that morning with an expected high there of 95 degrees. We were dressed in shorts & t-shirts. We arrived in San Francisco in time to go straight from the airport to the stadium for an afternoon game. We almost froze our butts off! We were so used to the extreme summer heat of NC that in some ways, it was refreshing but I finally had to go to the Giant's team store to buy sweatshirts to help warm us. I remember hearing later that they would sometimes give a special button to people who attended games through to conclusion as a reward for enduring the extreme cold. I know Candlestick had its issues but I'm also sure that for longtime Giants and 49'er fans, it will always hold a special place in their memories.
@@ChrisDavis-zt6zb I live on the border of Arizona and Utah. 115 degrees every day of the summer. Years ago I had a layover at SFX airport. It definitely wasn’t cold but I will say, 75 degrees feels much different. The reason candlestick feels so cold is because of the wind coming off the Bay, but that’s an interesting story nonetheless.
LOL, that was EXACTLY my experience at Candlestick. I was stationed at Ft Ord in 1979. Went to a Giants game that summer. Vida Blue was the starting picture for the Giants. Left Monterey in nice sunny weather shorts and t-shirt and arrived in SF for an afternoon game . Like you said, froze our butts off. Remindes me of that quote from Mark Twain: "The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco".
i loved going to the stick for years...would ride bus to/from the stadium from downtown SF for Giant and 49ers games (yes it was possible to use public transportation for games at the stick despite what other commenters appear to have said). In later years i took the light rail to the closest station to the stadium where free buses awaited to take fans to the 49er games. Fun times. Ill take decrepit old candlestick over levi stadium ANY day of the week. Much of the time id take it over the Giants new stadium too.
Candlestick was a testament to San Francisco corruption of the 60's. Had the city of San Francisco not decided to fix a lot of structural problems after the end of the 1988 football season, that upper bowl might have collapsed on to the people below. The support bolts were rusted and corroded and in some places there was only one bolt where there should have been 4.
@@johnharris6655 Yup Mayor Diane Finestein had the work completed before the start of the 89 baseball season. A good thing for me since I was in upper deck section 45 at the world series game #3. Let me tell you even with the construction renovation, that stadium moved pretty good during the earthquake. The light standards on the towers were banging into the the concrete overhand and chunks of concrete fell on the fans sitting near the top of Candlestick Park!!!!!!!! 👍⚾
They learned that from the Minnesota Twins and Vikings. Metropolitan Stadium was so poorly maintained, the third deck was considered unsafe. The entire thing was rusty through and through. They allowed it to get that way so they could have an excuse to build the Metrodome. If I had owned the Twins, I would have kept them there and rebuilt the entire thing, one section at a time.
The New York Giants were preparing for a possible move to Minnesota in the late 1950s. The Dodgers got an extremely generous offer from Los Angeles to move there, but MLB said only if the Giants moved west with them.
Dwight Clark was a wide receiver, not a tight end. On a related note, I was at The Catch (one of the over 100 49ers games I have attended). My family had season tickets from 1946 to 2013. I attended all but one 49ers home game from 1977 to 1986 (My dad would not let me attend the 1982 season finale on crutches). Another bit of personal trivia: Though I have been to many, many 49ers playoff games, I have never attended a 49ers playoff loss.
The earthquake happening during the World Series was the BEST possible time for an earthquake, as it saved a lot of lives due to the fact that so many people were at the game instead of being on the bridge that collapsed.
@@60secondmusichistory I was there in the upper deck down the left field line, and that stadium shook pretty good. If that quake had gone on for another 30 seconds, there would have been major damage at Candlestick Park!!!! 👍⚾
@@bartonpercival3216 It's a good thing that it didn't go on any longer, then! My point was that there was less traffic on the bridge because everyone was either at the game or watching it somewhere. If the bridge had the usual traffic, there would've been a lot more casualties.
@@60secondmusichistory Yes I understood what you were saying and you are 100% right. In fact my twin brother went with me to the game. He usually would have been on the lower deck of the cypress structure at 5:04pm going home from work in the east bay back to his house in the City!!!!!!!.
Candlestick was definitely a pit. How this was built at the same time as Dodger Stadium is beyond belief. Difference between Horace Stoneham and Walter OMalley I guess.
Unfortunately...they built the stadium "in the worst possible location they could build." I've been there several times...horrible location no matter if it was open or enclosed.
If they had built it just one mile away, the wind would have been much less. But thousands of fans would have been killed in the earthquake because that spot had less bedrock.
A couple big things you overlook are footprint and infrastructure. That area to the south is all a protected wildlife habitat, and to the north is a hill and residential neighborhood. The only way a modern stadium would fit is to build over the entire parking lot. That leads to the second problem: lack of access. As it was getting in and out of Candlestick was a massive headache. Traffic would back up onto the freeway and the only other way out was through residential streets in one of the worst neighborhoods in SF. There were no major bus lines and both Muni and Bart were over on the other side of the city. It simply was not a practical site for a modern NFL or MLB venue.
The Giants wanted out long before the 90s. There were several failed ballot initiatives dating back to the 80s. There was even talks about doming candlestick at one point.
The Giants had tried to move to Tampa Bay in the 1992 off-season, but it was vetoed by the NL owners, particularly by the owner of the then-new Florida Marlins.
@@ozzmoises Sadly, refusal to renovate is what ended up being its demise. The Niners and Giants realized they were better off building new stadiums than trying to get renovations done.
The 49ers owner was Eddie Duh-BAHR-toh-loh, accent on the second syllable. Also the stadium was terrible for baseball in particular. For example, in the 1961, Giants pitcher Stu Miller was literally blown off the mound and to add further insult was charged with a balk by an umpire going strictly by the book, even for an exhibition game. Willie Mays would probably be baseball's home run king today if he played when and where the wind was more moderate. Candlestick Park even made Wrigley Field in North Chicago seem tame on the wind front. It's a good thing Bill Walsh did not try to emulate the Raiders vertical passing attack for the Niners. It seems karmic that the baseball Giants did not win the World Series until after moving to their current stadium.
I was born and raised in the Bay Area... I am told I was at a 1962 World Series game, but I don't remember it myself... (I was six). Anyway, over the years I went to quite a few Giants games at Candlestink... Just an incredibly TERRIBLE ballpark! Windy, cold, nasty, terrible concessions for the fans... Except one time when we drove over from our East Bay home, all dressed like Eskimos in preparation for the usual.... and it was HOT, over 90 degrees. not a breath of wind. Even the players seemed to move like old decrepit hound dogs. SF almost never gets anywhere near that warm. Never went to a football game there, but I have been told the wind was not as much of a factor in the fall and made it a (barely) decent experience. In any case, Candlestuck was just plain awful.
@@Kiddman32 I love this comment. Every one of my dead stadium videos I get people who have been there commenting and telling me about it. I love hearing stories about it.
@@shaunnichols1743 It’s actually on my list in my notes app on my phone. I plan on doing one on original Mile High soon. I didn’t know he was there too! Man has been all over the place lol
People like to romanticize Candlestick now, but if you ever went to a baseball or football game there, it sucked hard. By the late 80s it was old and decrepit. It sucked getting in, and it sucked even more getting out. If you didn't freeze, you boiled in the sun. If you were a man and needed to use the restroom, you were greeted to a common trough to relieve yourself in. Horribly disgusting. My first time there was 1979 and I was too young to realize it was bad. By 2010, it was a complete disaster. It housed great memories, but the venue itself was one of the worst ever.
@@johnrinck4883 The trough😂 I’m still confused at places that use those. Such a weird concept, a bunch of dudes shoulder to shoulder with their meat mere inches from each other. Not a fun time 😂
idk but bleacher seats were $1 in the 70s and they had 1/2 price nights which caused a pretty big uptick in attendance. we must have been cheap bastards back then. fyi, i also went to warriors games across the bay and i have a stub for $7 for the 8th row near center court.
I don't know what gave the Giants any right to complain about the 49ers. The Niners were way more successful in that stadium than the Giants ever were.
@@BD-1-And-Only I replayed it a few times and kept hearing "Cal St." I just played it for my son (who has younger ears than me, and he pointed out that you actually said "Cal FACED Fresno St.," but he also said that you sort of swallowed the "faced" a little, so he could see how I heard "Cal State." My bad. Carry on.
Astroturf????? I’ve never heard of candlestick having astroturf. I went to dozens of giants games in the 80s and it was always real grass .you can also tell it’s real grass in the nfc championship in 82 when the catch happened. If they did have astroturf it was short lived
Yes, it did. Bobby Bonds was a huge critic. He hated Astroturf and was one of the driving forces to get rid of it. He said, "If cows don't eat it, I don't want to play on it!"
Candlestick Park was the location of The Beatles final live performance.
And Paul played the last concert performed at the stadium.
@darryljorden9177. August 29, 1966.
My wife and I attended a Giants game in Candlestick many years ago while on vacation in San Francisco. The thing I remember most about our experience was the weather. We had left Raleigh NC early that morning with an expected high there of 95 degrees. We were dressed in shorts & t-shirts. We arrived in San Francisco in time to go straight from the airport to the stadium for an afternoon game. We almost froze our butts off! We were so used to the extreme summer heat of NC that in some ways, it was refreshing but I finally had to go to the Giant's team store to buy sweatshirts to help warm us. I remember hearing later that they would sometimes give a special button to people who attended games through to conclusion as a reward for enduring the extreme cold. I know Candlestick had its issues but I'm also sure that for longtime Giants and 49'er fans, it will always hold a special place in their memories.
@@ChrisDavis-zt6zb I live on the border of Arizona and Utah. 115 degrees every day of the summer. Years ago I had a layover at SFX airport. It definitely wasn’t cold but I will say, 75 degrees feels much different. The reason candlestick feels so cold is because of the wind coming off the Bay, but that’s an interesting story nonetheless.
LOL, that was EXACTLY my experience at Candlestick. I was stationed at Ft Ord in 1979. Went to a Giants game that summer. Vida Blue was the starting picture for the Giants. Left Monterey in nice sunny weather shorts and t-shirt and arrived in SF for an afternoon game . Like you said, froze our butts off. Remindes me of that quote from Mark Twain: "The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco".
i loved going to the stick for years...would ride bus to/from the stadium from downtown SF for Giant and 49ers games (yes it was possible to use public transportation for games at the stick despite what other commenters appear to have said). In later years i took the light rail to the closest station to the stadium where free buses awaited to take fans to the 49er games. Fun times. Ill take decrepit old candlestick over levi stadium ANY day of the week. Much of the time id take it over the Giants new stadium too.
Candlestick was a testament to San Francisco corruption of the 60's. Had the city of San Francisco not decided to fix a lot of structural problems after the end of the 1988 football season, that upper bowl might have collapsed on to the people below. The support bolts were rusted and corroded and in some places there was only one bolt where there should have been 4.
@@johnharris6655 Yup Mayor Diane Finestein had the work completed before the start of the 89 baseball season. A good thing for me since I was in upper deck section 45 at the world series game #3. Let me tell you even with the construction renovation, that stadium moved pretty good during the earthquake. The light standards on the towers were banging into the the concrete overhand and chunks of concrete fell on the fans sitting near the top of Candlestick Park!!!!!!!! 👍⚾
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They learned that from the Minnesota Twins and Vikings. Metropolitan Stadium was so poorly maintained, the third deck was considered unsafe. The entire thing was rusty through and through. They allowed it to get that way so they could have an excuse to build the Metrodome. If I had owned the Twins, I would have kept them there and rebuilt the entire thing, one section at a time.
The New York Giants were preparing for a possible move to Minnesota in the late 1950s. The Dodgers got an extremely generous offer from Los Angeles to move there, but MLB said only if the Giants moved west with them.
For several years the East-West Shrine Game was at the Stick.
Dwight Clark was a wide receiver, not a tight end.
On a related note, I was at The Catch (one of the over 100 49ers games I have attended). My family had season tickets from 1946 to 2013. I attended all but one 49ers home game from 1977 to 1986 (My dad would not let me attend the 1982 season finale on crutches).
Another bit of personal trivia: Though I have been to many, many 49ers playoff games, I have never attended a 49ers playoff loss.
He was a WR, but a very tall one with a TE's body.
@@badgerden7080 Yeah, the prototypical Shannon Sharpe TE body, right?
I used to joke that Canseco got hit by a flying bat during the earthquake.
The earthquake happening during the World Series was the BEST possible time for an earthquake, as it saved a lot of lives due to the fact that so many people were at the game instead of being on the bridge that collapsed.
@@60secondmusichistory I was there in the upper deck down the left field line, and that stadium shook pretty good. If that quake had gone on for another 30 seconds, there would have been major damage at Candlestick Park!!!! 👍⚾
@@bartonpercival3216 It's a good thing that it didn't go on any longer, then! My point was that there was less traffic on the bridge because everyone was either at the game or watching it somewhere. If the bridge had the usual traffic, there would've been a lot more casualties.
@@60secondmusichistory Yes I understood what you were saying and you are 100% right. In fact my twin brother went with me to the game. He usually would have been on the lower deck of the cypress structure at 5:04pm going home from work in the east bay back to his house in the City!!!!!!!.
Not just that: a lot of people went home early. The 880 viaduct would normally be packed at 5:04, but it wasn't due to people going home early.
Candlestick was definitely a pit. How this was built at the same time as Dodger Stadium is beyond belief. Difference between Horace Stoneham and Walter OMalley I guess.
The attorney's name is pronounced Melvin BELL EYE!!!! 👍
@@bartonpercival3216 Thanks lol. It’s definitely spelled weird.
He also guest starred in an episode of Star Trek
I'm from the Bay Area. The 49ers are my favorite NFL team and the Giants are my favorite MLB team.
Unfortunately...they built the stadium "in the worst possible location they could build." I've been there several times...horrible location no matter if it was open or enclosed.
If they had built it just one mile away, the wind would have been much less. But thousands of fans would have been killed in the earthquake because that spot had less bedrock.
"All I have left to say is HOW BOUT THEM COWBOYS???!!!"
A couple big things you overlook are footprint and infrastructure. That area to the south is all a protected wildlife habitat, and to the north is a hill and residential neighborhood. The only way a modern stadium would fit is to build over the entire parking lot. That leads to the second problem: lack of access. As it was getting in and out of Candlestick was a massive headache. Traffic would back up onto the freeway and the only other way out was through residential streets in one of the worst neighborhoods in SF. There were no major bus lines and both Muni and Bart were over on the other side of the city. It simply was not a practical site for a modern NFL or MLB venue.
@@shaunnichols1743 Yup you definitely didn't want to have a break down in your car leaving the stadium in that part of the city!!!! 😱
@@bartonpercival3216 yeah, I'm not saying the people are all bad or dangerous, but if you're not from there you will definitely get some looks
The Giants wanted out long before the 90s. There were several failed ballot initiatives dating back to the 80s. There was even talks about doming candlestick at one point.
The Giants had tried to move to Tampa Bay in the 1992 off-season, but it was vetoed by the NL owners, particularly by the owner of the then-new Florida Marlins.
Us niners fans miss candlestick, wish they had just renovated the stick or rebuilt it.
@@ozzmoises Sadly, refusal to renovate is what ended up being its demise. The Niners and Giants realized they were better off building new stadiums than trying to get renovations done.
The 49ers owner was Eddie Duh-BAHR-toh-loh, accent on the second syllable. Also the stadium was terrible for baseball in particular. For example, in the 1961, Giants pitcher Stu Miller was literally blown off the mound and to add further insult was charged with a balk by an umpire going strictly by the book, even for an exhibition game. Willie Mays would probably be baseball's home run king today if he played when and where the wind was more moderate. Candlestick Park even made Wrigley Field in North Chicago seem tame on the wind front. It's a good thing Bill Walsh did not try to emulate the Raiders vertical passing attack for the Niners. It seems karmic that the baseball Giants did not win the World Series until after moving to their current stadium.
I was born and raised in the Bay Area... I am told I was at a 1962 World Series game, but I don't remember it myself... (I was six). Anyway, over the years I went to quite a few Giants games at Candlestink... Just an incredibly TERRIBLE ballpark! Windy, cold, nasty, terrible concessions for the fans... Except one time when we drove over from our East Bay home, all dressed like Eskimos in preparation for the usual.... and it was HOT, over 90 degrees. not a breath of wind. Even the players seemed to move like old decrepit hound dogs. SF almost never gets anywhere near that warm.
Never went to a football game there, but I have been told the wind was not as much of a factor in the fall and made it a (barely) decent experience.
In any case, Candlestuck was just plain awful.
@@Kiddman32 I love this comment. Every one of my dead stadium videos I get people who have been there commenting and telling me about it. I love hearing stories about it.
@1:53 lmao
Bro..it's not THAT cold lmao
Pope was at the Silverdome as well as da Candlestick
Good memory, well done.
@@BD-1-And-Only Have you done a video on the old Mile High? Because he was there too.
@@shaunnichols1743 It’s actually on my list in my notes app on my phone. I plan on doing one on original Mile High soon. I didn’t know he was there too! Man has been all over the place lol
@@BD-1-And-Only yeah, mile high was wild with the moving seats and the altitude and the pope!
People like to romanticize Candlestick now, but if you ever went to a baseball or football game there, it sucked hard. By the late 80s it was old and decrepit. It sucked getting in, and it sucked even more getting out. If you didn't freeze, you boiled in the sun. If you were a man and needed to use the restroom, you were greeted to a common trough to relieve yourself in. Horribly disgusting. My first time there was 1979 and I was too young to realize it was bad. By 2010, it was a complete disaster. It housed great memories, but the venue itself was one of the worst ever.
@@johnrinck4883 The trough😂 I’m still confused at places that use those. Such a weird concept, a bunch of dudes shoulder to shoulder with their meat mere inches from each other. Not a fun time 😂
"Boiled in the sun"? Fenway Park is hotter than that.
@@BD-1-And-Only *wrigley Field has left the chat*
How much were season tickets when the attorney won the $1500?
idk but bleacher seats were $1 in the 70s and they had 1/2 price nights which caused a pretty big uptick in attendance. we must have been cheap bastards back then.
fyi, i also went to warriors games across the bay and i have a stub for $7 for the 8th row near center court.
i went there hundreds of times in the 70s and 80s (baseball only). it was an absolute sh!thole. terrible location in many ways!!
I don't know what gave the Giants any right to complain about the 49ers. The Niners were way more successful in that stadium than the Giants ever were.
"Cal State?" Oy.
@@jmlapedis49 What? I said Cal vs Fresno State
@@BD-1-And-Only I replayed it a few times and kept hearing "Cal St." I just played it for my son (who has younger ears than me, and he pointed out that you actually said "Cal FACED Fresno St.," but he also said that you sort of swallowed the "faced" a little, so he could see how I heard "Cal State." My bad. Carry on.
@@jmlapedis49 no worries i appreciate the view and the comment my friend take care
Astroturf????? I’ve never heard of candlestick having astroturf. I went to dozens of giants games in the 80s and it was always real grass .you can also tell it’s real grass in the nfc championship in 82 when the catch happened. If they did have astroturf it was short lived
@@anthonyparkernearlifeexp yep. It was short lived.
There was turf there in ‘70’s. You can see it at 2:42
It had Astroturf from 1970-1978. The Giants were generally fine with it, but the Niners were anxious to return to real grass by the end of that span.
Yes, it did. Bobby Bonds was a huge critic. He hated Astroturf and was one of the driving forces to get rid of it. He said, "If cows don't eat it, I don't want to play on it!"
I'm going to guess that you are an Aquarius.
It's pronounced Bell-eye
@@sportsmedia25 Yeah I’ve gotten a few comments about my pronunciation, forgive me I’m slightly retarded😂