Where is candlestick stadium

Explore Map Activity. Add a new page. Edit Info. View Edit. Park Location Jamestown Avenue Candlestick Park also commonly referred to as Candlestick is an outdoor sports and entertainment stadium located in San Francisco, California, in the Bayview Heights area. Louis Cardinals. With a seating capacity of 42, the grandstand consisted of two main seating decks. The lower deck extended from behind homeplate and down the first base line, down the third base line and around the left field foul pole into left centerfield.

The upper deck extended from homeplate down both the first and third base lines. A small section of bleachers were located in right center field and the scoreboard was located above the hitters backdrop in centerfield. Original dimensions at the stadium were ft. Not long after its opening it became apparent that the weather would play a factor into many games played at Candlestick Park. Although it could be a nice, warm sunny day at the ballpark, it could also be very windy.

Once the sun set, the temperatures dropped and fog was present sometimes. Discussions of expanding the stadium to accommodate the San Francisco 49ers NFL began as early as When it first opened, Candlestick Park had around 45, seats. The 49ers had played at Kezar Stadium since After only several years of existence, Candlestick Park began to deteriorate. Candlestick Park was enclosed, increasing the seating capacity to 61, As a result of this massive relocation, the population of BVHP quadrupled between and to 51, residents, with African Americans becoming a growing portion of the population.

The community eventually became segregated from the rest of the city, with little new business or population growth being experienced. The park, which was initially designed to hold 43, spectators, injected life into a community that had begun to struggle with employment following the downturn of the slaughterhouse and shipbuilding industries.

Built only a few years after the stadium in , the Alice Griffith Public Housing Project was built to provide low-income housing to up to families and provide a place for workers near the stadium to live.

With the addition of a new team, the stadium was expanded for the sixth time in 11 years, bringing the capacity to 61, spectators. Candlestick Point, , looking generally south towards San Bruno Mountain and the town of Brisbane.

No ballpark, not even the land to build it on is yet present. Photo: OpenSFHistory. Candlestick Point, , same view as above, 29 years later, with a good deal of construction and landfilling underway.

But while the teams shined in the stadium, the stadium itself had numerous shortcomings with its design, which made it in some ways obsolete and an undesirable location for fans.