Re: Railroad content
Author: Tony Johnson
Date: 11-03-2010 - 09:05
John West Wrote:
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> If they had asked ANYONE who worked for SP at
> Bayshore, the Giants wouldn't have had to put up
> with Candlestick for so many years. As everyone
> in the world later learned, the afternoon and
> evenings are like a wind tunnel in that area. But
> maybe Candlestick games should have been scheduled
> for say 1 a.m. If you were on the midnight shift
> at Bayshore the wind would calm down and it could
> become almost balmy. GO GIANTS. But how may old
> timers here remember the Seals. Hell, how many
> folks remember Bayshore.
>
> JBWX
I remember Seals Stadium and saw a few S.F. Seals games there. The only triple play I saw in my life happened there. One of my former junior high school gym teachers was Con Maloney, who played with the Seals and made a brief appearance with the Phillies back in the fifties.
As for Bayshore, besides photographing the Espee there beginning in the late fifties, when I worked for Safeway at night, I would eat my bag lunch near the old Bayshore Tower site and watch the crews switch cuts of cars at night. They'd have old dunnage burning in empty 55-gallon drums so they could warm their hands.
You're so correct about how the winds died down and it seems to warm up after midnight.