Avert your eyes, Giants fans, from new photos that show Candlestick Park crumbling to dust
Avert your eyes from new Candlestick Park photos
Entropy claims all. Seasons change, waters rise and the homes to our beloved and most cherished memories collapse and fall. Perhaps it was your childhood treehouse being destroyed by that Nor'easter a few years back. Or when your parents re-wallpapered your bedroom and turned it into their guestroom/storage room for the unused exercise equipment. And then there are the sports stadiums like the Roman Colosseum, once home to the greatest athletics feats, now crumbling and falling apart.
Enter: Candlestick Park. With the 49ers now playing in the brand new Levi's Stadium and the Giants playing in the gorgeous AT&T Park, Candlestick Park is left alone.
The stadium that survived the 1989 earthquake during the World Series:
And was home to Willie Mays' dingers, catches and everything else under the sun:
And Will "The Thrill" Clark doing super rad things like knocking out NLCS-winning hits:
Now looks like this:
Captured by photographer Patricia Chang using a drone, Candlestick Park is a stadium on death row, waiting to be converted into a mall. With most of the seats torn out and sold, the ones left behind look like characters from Space Invaders. Check out the rest of her photos over at Curbed and then compare them to what the stadium looked like in its heyday. And let this image be the one that lives on in your memory: