Candlestick Park was an outdoor stadium on the West Coast of the United States, located in San Francisco's Bayview Heights area.
| FactSnippet No. 669,483 |
11 Facts About Candlestick Park
2.
The last event held at Candlestick Park was a concert by Paul McCartney in August 2014, and the demolition of the stadium was completed in September 2015.
| FactSnippet No. 669,484 |
3.
Candlestick Park Point was named for the "candlestick birds" that populated the area for many years.
| FactSnippet No. 669,485 |
4.
Candlestick Park made a profit of over $2 million when he sold the land for the stadium.
| FactSnippet No. 669,486 |
5.
Candlestick Park played host to two Major League Baseball All-Star Games in its life as home for the Giants.
| FactSnippet No. 669,487 |
6.
An ESPN documentary about the earthquake revealed that the local stadium authority demanded that Candlestick Park undertake a major engineering project to shore up perceived safety red flags in the stadium.
| FactSnippet No. 669,488 |
7.
The Giants' subsequent home, Oracle Candlestick Park, is just one degree warmer, but is far less windy, creating a "warmer" effect.
| FactSnippet No. 669,489 |
8.
Candlestick Park was an object of scorn from baseball purists for reasons other than weather.
| FactSnippet No. 669,490 |
9.
Candlestick Park was home to dozens of commercial shoots as well as the location for the climactic scene in both the 1962 thriller Experiment in Terror and the 1974 Richard Rush comedy Freebie and the Bean.
| FactSnippet No. 669,491 |
10.
In 2010, Candlestick Park was featured as the finishing point for the finale of The Amazing Race 16.
| FactSnippet No. 669,492 |
11.
Some think that Candlestick Park Point was named for the indigenous "candlestick bird", once common to the point.
| FactSnippet No. 669,493 |