Built between 1958 to 1960 in San Francisco, Candlestick Park was home to Major League baseball and pro football. Here's a quick look into it's story, Then and Now.
I loved going tho candlestick park, yeah it sucked with how cold it got but lots of memories I hold close to my heart. I miss that stadium. I’ll never forget that my grandpa and me saw frank gore run for 220 yards and two touchdowns one from 79 yards and the other from 80 yards and history was made as they beat the Seahawks! Go 49ers!!!!!!
I ve been there too. Yep buddy you re right. It got cold and frigid for many of the night games but it also sometimes got windy during some of the day games too. If I heard right the wind blew Stu Miller off the mound
@@davidlafleche1142 That depended on the weather. If it was cold and rainy in November/December, then no, Candlestick was cold. Here's a quote from Frank Gifford on Montana's last game as 49er, December 1992 Monday Night game, when it rained and apparently temps dropped to 38F: "I don't know why it isn't snowing!" I went to a game in 1990, December, when it was sunny but 43F there. And it could get that way at Kezar too, in December and November.
@@davidlafleche1142 Are you suggesting I'm full of BS? There are records to back me up. And I was at games at the Stick in November and December in various years, and it was usually cool or downright cold, so don't tell me my post is ikcy-poo! There's also an NFL records page, for every game going back to the late 50s, and weather conditions are mentioned. I checked weather at Kezar. One example: Dec. 10, 1960: 47F and rain! I was supposed to go to that game with my dad, as my uncle had season tickets and had gotten a few extras, and my dad said we weren't going if it rained, and it did.
I'm a Native San Franciscan and a Sunset Boy. I used to take the Baseball Bus to Candlestick from 19th and Taraval and the 72 Bus to Kezar from Sunset Blvd and Santiago. Lon Simmons was part of my life as was Ross Hodges to a lesser degree. Nothing will ever replace my love for The City. We were blessed.
I really love the videos produced by this channel. It's a quick trip down memory lane that leaves my mind and heart happy. I especially like this video on Candlestick as I grew up a Giants fan. When I couldn't go to the games, I'd fall asleep in front of the television watching the games from the stick. Ah, to be a kid again. 🥰
Candlestone Park, where Fred Flintstone tried out for the Rock City Giants. At the end of that episode, Fred reads about tryouts for the Rock Bay Pachederms, who might have played at Lambstone Field.
I don’t miss it at all, I went there in 1965 and saw my first Giants game, Willie Mays hit a triple, been there many more times, but leaving took a lot of time, parking sucked, and it was cold and windy. It never was a good baseball or football stadium.
I often wonder what Herb Caen would say about a lot of things in San Francisco if he were around today. Candlestick Park and the Niners is one of them. Without rehashing the the entire conversation, I believe at one point The City had set aside $100 million for infrastructure improvements for the new stadium that was to be built next to the old one which would then be turned into a parking lot for the new stadium. All this provided that private financing for the project would cover the stadium. It was to include the stadium, a mall, and (natch!) public affordable housing. We all know where that went. Another idea was to build the new stadium on the western side of 101 below Tunnel Ave. The problem was that they would need a few acres that are, technically, in Brisbane (and therefore San Mateo County). And the owners would not sell (although they like the idea of a joint ownership structure and revenue sharing. Like that was going to happen. No. Wait! It wouldn't...). The dreams were big: More housing, more tax revenue, revitalizing Hunters Point. But this has not come to fruition and, ten years later, where there once was "The 'stick" is...nothing. You know who's making money in San Francisco? The SF Giants. And the Warriors (actually, that's a highly profitable entertainment company that happens to also own an NBA team). I forgot who was Mayor of SF back then and would have to look it up. But it was not Willie Brown. You can have a differing opinion about him from mine but if he had been Mayor then, the Niners would be playing in the new Candlestick Park...in San Francisco. You can ask Herb Caen. ;)
born here in the Bay Area but I never been to the stick :( but I been to the coliseum and the Levi’s stadium only once need to go to home games more often
Lots of Raiders fans don' know that fact, or completely ignore it. They also wore gold and black then. Al Davis did not have them wear their 1960 uniforms in 2010 when the original AFL teams did just that, that's how much of a narcissist Davis was, not allowing that someone else ran the Raiders before his thievery showed up.
Well, about half the home games in 1960 were at Kezar, and then because of one scheduling conflict, Candlestick became their home for the rest of the season and all of 1961. If San Francisco had expanded Candlestick then, there might have been a San Francisco Raiders team.
I grew up in the Bay Area beginning in 1963. I've read that "they" could not have picked a worse place to build a stadium for the Giants in the entire Bay Area! Apparently so.
As a child I lived in Candlestick Cove housing on South side of KYA hill until government decided to kick residents out and demolish the housing. Best years of my life. Watched as Candlestick Park was being built with awe. Once we were booted out of Candlestick Cove we moved the North side of KYA hill, Doublerock projects. Thus downward spiral of life began. 🤷🏼
@@onlyGhostboy it wasn’t botched at all dude, I’m from Chicago and its an amazing stadium . Only thing the locals wished it had was a dome which they are now officially adding..
True of Levis on that sun side of the field. This past season, however, it rained late in the season, like it used to do all the time, so it had to have been much cooler. It did snow in the surrounding mountains the night before that Tampa Bay game, and it was a cold Sunday. When players on the sidelines are wearing warm-up capes, you know it's cold. I went to a December game in 2017, and the concessions were freezing, but the east grandstand was baking hot.
I wish some SF billionaire would buy the 49ers, get a stadium built in that industrial wasteland area between the Old Bayshore and US 101, where, ironically, San Francisco planned to build an Olympic stadium had they gotten the 2024 Olympics. And I have no doubt the Olympic site pickers said this: "Why the hell are they tearing down a stadium to build another one so nearby when they could remodel/partly rebuild the one they already have?" That new stadium would be near the Sunnydale Muni, Caltrain's Bayshore Station, and right off the freeway. No need to drive to game, like Oracle.
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I loved going tho candlestick park, yeah it sucked with how cold it got but lots of memories I hold close to my heart. I miss that stadium. I’ll never forget that my grandpa and me saw frank gore run for 220 yards and two touchdowns one from 79 yards and the other from 80 yards and history was made as they beat the Seahawks! Go 49ers!!!!!!
Fucc 49ers
I ve been there too. Yep buddy you re right. It got cold and frigid for many of the night games but it also sometimes got windy during some of the day games too. If I heard right the wind blew Stu Miller off the mound
Even though I have great memories at Candlestick, I always hated that stadium for how fucking cold it always was
Cold weather and high winds, we always had to bring a heavy blanket if we went to a night game
Ironically, the weather was always nice for football but cold and miserable for baseball.
@@davidlafleche1142 That depended on the weather. If it was cold and rainy in November/December, then no, Candlestick was cold. Here's a quote from Frank Gifford on Montana's last game as 49er, December 1992 Monday Night game, when it rained and apparently temps dropped to 38F: "I don't know why it isn't snowing!" I went to a game in 1990, December, when it was sunny but 43F there. And it could get that way at Kezar too, in December and November.
@@ldfreitas9437 That's icky-poo.
@@davidlafleche1142 Are you suggesting I'm full of BS? There are records to back me up. And I was at games at the Stick in November and December in various years, and it was usually cool or downright cold, so don't tell me my post is ikcy-poo! There's also an NFL records page, for every game going back to the late 50s, and weather conditions are mentioned. I checked weather at Kezar. One example: Dec. 10, 1960: 47F and rain! I was supposed to go to that game with my dad, as my uncle had season tickets and had gotten a few extras, and my dad said we weren't going if it rained, and it did.
Spent lots of time there from the Giants to the 49ers and lots of tailgate parties. Miss it lots
So did I, from the mid-60s, a few Giants games before the enclosure, until 2010. Saw the 49ers play at Kezar too.
This was a great story sir
Thanks for the Memories to remember ❤
I'm a Native San Franciscan and a Sunset Boy. I used to take the Baseball Bus to Candlestick from 19th and Taraval and the 72 Bus to Kezar from Sunset Blvd and Santiago. Lon Simmons was part of my life as was Ross Hodges to a lesser degree. Nothing will ever replace my love for The City. We were blessed.
All my memories are tied to this place
I really love the videos produced by this channel. It's a quick trip down memory lane that leaves my mind and heart happy. I especially like this video on Candlestick as I grew up a Giants fan. When I couldn't go to the games, I'd fall asleep in front of the television watching the games from the stick. Ah, to be a kid again. 🥰
Was there in 1995 at a 49ers vs cowboys nfl game……great memories🇪🇸👏🏈
SHOULD IF JUST REMODELED IT. WHAT A SHAME!!!
Candlestone Park, where Fred Flintstone tried out for the Rock City Giants. At the end of that episode, Fred reads about tryouts for the Rock Bay Pachederms, who might have played at Lambstone Field.
I might be an A's fan but I loved the hot dogs at the stick. You guys had better concessions even in the 70's.
Hallowed ground.
Polish sausage with Gulden's mustard. Harry Stevens concessions
SO MANY GREAT MEMORIES WHEN I WAS JUST A CHILD.
I don’t miss it at all, I went there in 1965 and saw my first Giants game, Willie Mays hit a triple, been there many more times, but leaving took a lot of time, parking sucked, and it was cold and windy. It never was a good baseball or football stadium.
Tell me about it. It was often too cold or too windy. Good Riddance!
I often wonder what Herb Caen would say about a lot of things in San Francisco if he were around today. Candlestick Park and the Niners is one of them. Without rehashing the the entire conversation, I believe at one point The City had set aside $100 million for infrastructure improvements for the new stadium that was to be built next to the old one which would then be turned into a parking lot for the new stadium. All this provided that private financing for the project would cover the stadium. It was to include the stadium, a mall, and (natch!) public affordable housing. We all know where that went. Another idea was to build the new stadium on the western side of 101 below Tunnel Ave. The problem was that they would need a few acres that are, technically, in Brisbane (and therefore San Mateo County). And the owners would not sell (although they like the idea of a joint ownership structure and revenue sharing. Like that was going to happen. No. Wait! It wouldn't...). The dreams were big: More housing, more tax revenue, revitalizing Hunters Point. But this has not come to fruition and, ten years later, where there once was "The 'stick" is...nothing. You know who's making money in San Francisco? The SF Giants. And the Warriors (actually, that's a highly profitable entertainment company that happens to also own an NBA team). I forgot who was Mayor of SF back then and would have to look it up. But it was not Willie Brown. You can have a differing opinion about him from mine but if he had been Mayor then, the Niners would be playing in the new Candlestick Park...in San Francisco. You can ask Herb Caen. ;)
born here in the Bay Area but I never been to the stick :( but I been to the coliseum and the Levi’s stadium only once need to go to home games more often
I never got a chance to see Candelabra Park, before, hehehe!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Ah, yes. The Coliseum's older brother. We miss em till this day.
How about the Raiders' first real home, in 1960 and 1961!
Lots of Raiders fans don' know that fact, or completely ignore it. They also wore gold and black then. Al Davis did not have them wear their 1960 uniforms in 2010 when the original AFL teams did just that, that's how much of a narcissist Davis was, not allowing that someone else ran the Raiders before his thievery showed up.
Well, about half the home games in 1960 were at Kezar, and then because of one scheduling conflict, Candlestick became their home for the rest of the season and all of 1961. If San Francisco had expanded Candlestick then, there might have been a San Francisco Raiders team.
I grew up in the Bay Area beginning in 1963. I've read that "they" could not have picked a worse place to build a stadium for the Giants in the entire Bay Area! Apparently so.
As a child I lived in Candlestick Cove housing on South side of KYA hill until government decided to kick residents out and demolish the housing. Best years of my life.
Watched as Candlestick Park was being built with awe.
Once we were booted out of Candlestick Cove we moved the North side of KYA hill, Doublerock projects. Thus downward spiral of life began.
🤷🏼
I miss Candlestick; I hate Levi’s Stadium.
Why didn’t they just fucking remodel it like they did for soldier field in Chicago???
@@walterwhite1 It would have been worse. Soldier Field's renovation was botched. Better off just building a new stadium.
@@onlyGhostboy it wasn’t botched at all dude, I’m from Chicago and its an amazing stadium . Only thing the locals wished it had was a dome which they are now officially adding..
@@walterwhite1 The bears are gonna build a new stadium in Arlington Heights
@@onlyGhostboy nothing is finalized clown 🤡
49er fans went from being to cool to dying of heat stroke just tryn to watch a game.
True of Levis on that sun side of the field. This past season, however, it rained late in the season, like it used to do all the time, so it had to have been much cooler. It did snow in the surrounding mountains the night before that Tampa Bay game, and it was a cold Sunday. When players on the sidelines are wearing warm-up capes, you know it's cold. I went to a December game in 2017, and the concessions were freezing, but the east grandstand was baking hot.
I wish some SF billionaire would buy the 49ers, get a stadium built in that industrial wasteland area between the Old Bayshore and US 101, where, ironically, San Francisco planned to build an Olympic stadium had they gotten the 2024 Olympics. And I have no doubt the Olympic site pickers said this: "Why the hell are they tearing down a stadium to build another one so nearby when they could remodel/partly rebuild the one they already have?"
That new stadium would be near the Sunnydale Muni, Caltrain's Bayshore Station, and right off the freeway. No need to drive to game, like Oracle.
I miss the clear fences at mlb stadiums it made them feel cooler somehow
Candlestink Park!
Where’s the Now photos?
Always be home
They ruined it when they made it a dual purpose field.
GOOD RIDDANCE!
boo
you have no heart, sir