One last look at San Francisco’s now-vanished Candlestick Park
Feb 7, 2016 at 8:02 AM
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SAN FRANCISCO—The signs are still there, directing you to parking lots for a stadium that no longer exists. Bayview Hill is still there, looming over Candlestick Point. And the wind—oh yes, the wind is still there, whipping off San Francisco Bay in unpredictable and relentless directions. What's gone are the curving modernist wedges of concrete, the rickety escalators, the battered field that defined Candlestick Park. It was never the prettiest stadium, it was never the most beloved; even its most ardent defenders barely tolerated it. But as caravans of football fans head south on the 101 from San Francisco to Santa Clara, it's hard not to glance over at the now-empty space at Candlestick Point and feel a twinge of … something. "It was tough to get into, tough to get out of, and miserable while you were there," longtime San Francisco sports columnist Ray Ratto said. "It was a constant endurance test. The fans who put up with that upholstered toilet were raising a middle finger to everyone who couldn't handle it." Candlestick Park looked like the past's version of the future, a squat reinforced-concrete multi-use semicircle divided against itself. Built in the...
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