>Remember the “Green Monster” that the Seals played in as well as the Giants, until they moved to Candlestick? Seals Stadium was on one corner, with breweries on the three adjoining corners – Hamm’s, Lucky Lager, and Budweiser. Free beer after a Seals game – but I was too young and today would not drink those types of brews. The breweries are gone as is Seals Stadium with its Kelly Green color.

Yes, very vaguely I remember the green. I must've been very small at the time. I don't recall the breweries, though, I was a bit young for even knowing what beer was :-)

>According to the Chronicle Sporting Green a few years ago, one of the reasons for the Giants leaving Candlestick was five-year-old kid’s. They would come up behind a seated fan and hold a revolver to his or her head and demand money. The police said they could do nothing to stop this sort of activity.

Now *that* I do remember, in a general sort of way, that the area was increasingly crime-ridden, and you had to really watch your back by the time the early 60s came along. Especially if you tried to avoid parking-lot fees by parking outside the stadium on a side street nearby.

I also recall a funny incident, when my father lost his in-stadium parking stub, and it was a full-house Dodger game. We had to wait like an hour, at the top of Heartbreak Hill, until almost all the cars had left, before we could finally spot ours...