Good bye Busch stadium

[pintobean]

We were driving through downtown St. Louis and stopped to watch the demo. What a way to spend a Saturday night. All we had with us were our camera phones.

[CanuckAmok]

1. What replaced it?

No doubt a "Cingular Arena" or an "Office Depot Gardens"....

[pintobean]

2. The new stadium is being built

on the right side of the pics. It will also be called Bush Memorial Stadium.

[ikojo]

34. The new Busch stadium is being built with

taxpayer dollars. Of course the Cardinals played the "we may move if we don't get a taxpayer funded stadium" card and Missouri and St Louis city and county swallowed it hook line and sinker.

[Oeditpus Rex]

3. Let's not forget that Busch

is Anheuser-Busch, Inc. So the original stadium had a corporate name from its opening in 1966. Same with Wrigley Field, which opened in 1914.

It could be argued, though, that both stadia were named for their owners and not their owners' corporations.

[pintobean]

5. True

When Bush bought the Cards, they renamed Sportsman's Park to Bush. The new one will be the third.

[KitchenWitch]

4. I am kind of sad to see it go!

:cry:

Is the new Busch going to be one of those cookie cutter new style baseball stadiums? :puke:

[pintobean]

6. I guess you could say that.

The old one was a 60's cookie cutter with arches on top. I think the new parks have a lot more character, but the old one had so many memories.

Edit: I'm sad too.

[stlsaxman]

20. I just learned last year that Busch Stadium was designed after a

beer bottle cap! when someone said that i slapped my forehead in a BFO (blinding flash of the obvious)!

I will miss the stadium terribly... Here it is the night before the wrecking ball hit.



Looks like you and I stood in the same spot for our pics! heheh

[Oeditpus Rex]

7. Have a look

I can't link this directly, but go here: http://www.ballparks.com/baseball/index.htm

...then click "National" at upper left, then "Future," then "Busch Stadium."

[KitchenWitch]

10. Wow thanks for the link!

That is really cool.

The new Busch actually does not look too bad...:)

I bookmarked that site.

I have a collection of miniature ball parks...I have Ebbets Field, Yankee Stadium, The old Tiger Stadium, Wrigley Field, and the old Metropolitan Stadium (former home of the Twins).

[pintobean]

33. here

[...of J.Temperance]

8. Oh no, now you've made me all upset :(

And I STILL hadn't fully recovered from us losing to the damn Astros.



:cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:

[KitchenWitch]

9. I feel your pain

My Twins did not even make the playoffs this year...

:cry:

[...of J.Temperance]

15. Oh heck

:hug:

Never mind, there's always next year.

[Oeditpus Rex]

11. Y'wanna be sad?

Check this out: http://www.freep.com/news/locway/stad7_20040707.htm

Tiger Stadium's just sitting there.

[pintobean]

12. Man, that is sad.

I'd rather see the wrecking ball do it quickly.

[KitchenWitch]

13. That is such a travesty!

x(

[...of J.Temperance]

14. Well that's sad too

It's very sad, are you a Tigers fan?

But you know...


















...THIS IS THE CARD'S AND BUSCH STADIUM...and IT'S, well, IT'S A SIN LOSING BUSCH STADIUM.



:cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:

[pintobean]

16. How did you become a Cards fan?

I checked your profile and scratched my head. Cardinal Nation is so cool.

edit - spelling

[...of J.Temperance]

17. My Grandfather

Was a Card's fan and so he got me into them too.

I'm sorry I made you scratch your head :)

[Renew Deal]

18. I love your city.

I visited this summer and had a blast. I went to a Cards-Cubs game, saw the arch, had some concrete and left my AMEX at a gas station. It was awesome.

[scarlet_owl]

19. It makes me sad, like a piece of my childhood is being torn down.

Couldn't they have dumped the money they are using to build a new stadium into renovating the old? I have such good memories of Busch Stadium. My grandfather worked there for many decades.

[ikojo]

35. They could have but the owners of the Cardinals wanted

more luxery boxes. The new Busch stadium will seat fewer people than the one being torn down. At first tickets wont go up all that much but over time they will.

[regnaD kciN]

21. As a Red Sox fan...

...it just seems ironic that, barely a year after we finally win it all, they demolish the stadium where it happened. :-(

[pintobean]

22. Updated pics

in daylight, with a better camera.

[Oeditpus Rex]

23. I wonder if those people are singing

"Take Me Out to the Ball Game."

Softly.

:cry:

[Quagmire05]

24. If they're going to

knock it down they should at least strap some slosives' on it and implode it

[Quagmire05]

25. like this

http://thewebfairy.com/911/video/kingdome.mpg

[GOPisEvil]

27. They can't. The new ballpark is right next to it.

Plus there are lots of buildings right near it.

[GOPisEvil]

26. *sniff* I saw my first MLB game in that stadium.

I suppose I'll miss it a bit, but the new park looks gorgeous.

[no name no slogan]

28. Hey, what's that arch-shaped thingy in the background?

[AngryAmish]

29. Good riddence

Too many Cubs losses in that bad boy.

[Quagmire05]

30. you'd have

to tear down nearly every stadium in America if there being too many Cubs loses there were reason enough to tear a stadium down

ohhhh.....burn

[AngryAmish]

31. uuurrrrrrggghhhh!!!!!!!!!!!

[pintobean]

32. You may like this

The copyright symbol looks like a Cubs Logo in the clouds. It would be over Illinois.


It's from this site:
http://www.slfp.com/View-of-Arch.html