Tony Johnson Wrote:
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> 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.

Con Dempsey, Tony. Remember him well