The old Met Stadium, Minneapolis, Mn.

Come on NYers, sure Ebbitts Field,Yankee, Shea and the Garden, but how about the Polo Grounds? After the baseball Giants left, it sat until the Mets played there in 62 and 63.

Tiger Stadium in Detroit.

Totally gone?

Boston Garden.
Shea Stadium.

Gone but still standing (no major pro teams playing there anymore)

Kezar Stadium (SF) - still standing but I saw a 49ers/Redskins game there in the late 1960s.
Olympic Stadium in Montreal - no Expos and only the occasional CFL or soccer game.

FYI - Jarry Park is still standing but it's a tennis venue now, called "Uniprix Stadium"

basketball
 

Bowen fieldhouse, where Eastern Michigan University would play basketball. Other teams hated to play there, Home court advantage every time they took the floor. The night Wisconsin came in ranked in the top 25,and found out the hard way.Believe it was in 94 or 95 season. They have new Convocation Center now.

The old Texas Stadium in Arlington, TX.

The Cleveland Arena - original home of the Cavs and Barons hockey
Cleveland Stadium - home of the Indians and Browns
Richfield Coliseum - second home of the Cavs

Hoping to be able to say Tropicana Field soon - what a mess of a baseball field.



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Passage of time/progress?
 

Yankee Stadium
Polo Grounds (saw a NASCAR race there after Giants were long gone!)
Madison Square Garden
Hawkins Stadium (Albany NY Eastern League team)
Connie Mack Field (I think it's gone)
Several auto race tracks: Menands & Pine Bowl & Route 66 Speedway(all in Albany-Troy NY area), Agawam MA, Bridgehampton NY road course (I assume it's gone)...plus others that I can't recall.
And, of course, Shea Stadium (my grandson refuses to call its replacement CitiField -- to him, it's still Shea Stadium!)

Some of the best drag strips in the country in their day.
In So. Calif
Lions - right next to Long Beach
Irwindale Raceway
San Gabriel Raceway
Orange County Raceway

In Virginia - Suffolk Raceway when the air was good this was the fast.

In Pa it has to be York US 30 in York PA.

Texas Stadium-Home of the Cowboys In Irving Texas
Schaeffer Stadium-New England Patriots Home before Gillette
The old Yankees Stadium
Boston Garden

How about your neck 'o the woods in NH, the Louden Race Track?

A little off topic, yet a cute true story relating to race tracks. Please be kind topcop :police:

A friend of mine and her hubby spent the day at the Louden, NH race track as guests of Paul Newman and wife Joanne a number of years ago. They were guests because they picked up Paul and his daughter on Rte 3 N in NH when Paul's RV broke down and my friends fixed him up with a dealer who loaned them a brand new RV to continue on to the racetrack. My friends Elaine and John gave Paul and his daughter a ride to the RV dealer where John worked.

Funny story: Elaine was driving their stick shift car and was on her lunch hour with hubby when hubby John told Elaine to stop and give this guy and little girl walking along the roadside a lift to the garage nearby. Paul and dau (now remember this was many years ago when it was safer to offer rides) got in the back seat and unbeknownst to Elaine who is driving heard John say to these new passengers in the back seat, "Is that your rig back there that broke down? You're Paul Newman, right?" Paul responded, "yeah." Elaine looked in the rear-view mirror and saw those blue eyes and all of a sudden the car started to buck because she lost all sanity in trying to step on the clutch and shift. To hear her tell the story, it was hilarious.

More hilarious is when Elaine and Paul got home from work later that day, the phone rang and the caller said, "Hi Elaine, this Paul...Paul Newman." Elaine said she got all choked up and stammered her way thru the conversation where Paul was so appreciative of their help that he was calling them to invite them to be he and Joanne's guest for the races at Louden NH the next day (not far from where they lived).

They spent the day with the Newmans and said it was like a day with our neighbors, they were so down-to-earth. Paul also gave them his address in Connecticut if they were ever in the area.

I saw all the pics they took of the day; Elaine asked if it was ok to bring her camera and Paul told Elaine to freely take pics as long as they're not published. Of course, she respected the request. This took place sometime during the early 1970's.

End of story.....

Neat story Barb. I really like those kind of experiences.

Thanks

Marlboro Motor Raceway near DC was abuzz with 24-hour events in the 60's

Washington Colesium - where we saw the Ice Capades on the more mellow sade and pro wrestling on the more robust.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Coliseum
The already bigger-than-life ccast of characters were even more gigantic to us kids at ringside
Bruno Sammartino, Gorilla Monsoon, Sky low low, and the Shiek were a few of the early stars.
Sorry to say we were not in the house when the Chiffons opened for the fab four in their first US concert, just 48 hours after they appeared on
The Ed Sullivan Shew

L and L

Gone venues
 

Someone mentioned old Busch Stadium in St. Louis. I'll see that and raise you one.

Busch Stadium

Earlier Busch Stadium, which started life as Sportsman's Park.

Cardinal baseball runs so deep in my family that my parents were married at City Hall in St. Louis on a weekday (Mom's birthday), then got on the street car to Sportsman's Park because the Giants were in town and the starting pitchers were Carl Hubbell and Dizzy Dean.

THEN, after the game, they left on their honeymoon.

And about 23 years later, when I was a high-school kid, I worked the summer at what had by then been renamed Busch Stadium.