Yankee Stadium [I] Demolition

[quagmire]

Yep. Very ugly. Very Angel/Anaheim Stadium.

How would you propose to support the extended upper deck then?

[threeyoda]

How would you propose to support the extended upper deck then?

They could have covered it up, make it like a flat underside, or straight wall similar to OYS

[NYFan1stYankFan2nd]

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the POD . . .

[NYFan1stYankFan2nd]

They could have covered it up, make it like a flat underside, or straight wall similar to OYS

Cosmetic panels with faux arch inlays to echo the arched windows might work, with openings for the cables to pass through. Couldn't see the cables much from the street, so the holes wouldn't matter.

[Rob R]

How would you propose to support the extended upper deck then?

I'd have at least covered it with something more attractive or ornamental, giving it a tiered wedding-cake appearance like OYS, if possible. How I'd perform this magic, I don't know...I'd leave that for the experts who probably worked on similarly supported upper decks but made the exterior more attractive.

Regardless of the how's or why's (which are legitimate), it was one of the main factors in the defacing of the most beautiful stadium ever built. The elimination of the frieze, destroying Gate 4, the escalator pods and the upper deck exterior destroyed the beauty of OYS. I know it sounds silly, but it's like painting a party hat on the top of Mona Lisa's head and a party horn in her mouth and then insisting that it's "Still the Mona Lisa...her original, beautiful eyes and ears still remain.." I call that denial.

(I'm not referring to you or your opinions, just stating my general beliefs)

[Rob R]

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the POD . . .

VERY nice. I like it a LOT better, spiders and all.

[NYFan1stYankFan2nd]

VERY nice. I like it a LOT better, spiders and all.

Even if the pod aside Gate 2 remained as was?

[locke40]

The best I could find.

Unfair....that's how we roll here. I dare ANYONE to show a shot of RYS from this same angle that looks better than this, blurry or not blurry:

The best I could find.

Renovated Yankee .jpg

I quite liked that in photo's OYS lights looked like they were one giant band of light, where NYS in every photo I have seen is that you can see every single light.

Yes, agree 100%. In every photo or TV broadcast showing the lights at NYS, they seem to be pointing in all different directions, and it looks terrible. I know you will say they are pointing at different parts of the field, but why didn't RYS have any problems having the nice, uniform band of lights? It seems like the lights at NYS are cheap and plastic looking, like the frieze.

[NYFan1stYankFan2nd]

The best I could find.

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Yes, agree 100%. In every photo or TV broadcast showing the lights at NYS, they seem to be pointing in all different directions, and it looks terrible. I know you will say they are pointing at different parts of the field, but why didn't RYS have any problems having the nice, uniform band of lights? It seems like the lights at NYS are cheap and plastic looking, like the frieze.

Judging by the angle and phase of the Moon that picture was taken during extra extra innings! Nice.

[quagmire]

I'd have at least covered it with something more attractive or ornamental, giving it a tiered wedding-cake appearance like OYS, if possible. How I'd perform this magic, I don't know...I'd leave that for the experts who probably worked on similarly supported upper decks but made the exterior more attractive.

Regardless of the how's or why's (which are legitimate), it was one of the main factors in the defacing of the most beautiful stadium ever built. The elimination of the frieze, destroying Gate 4, the escalator pods and the upper deck exterior destroyed the beauty of OYS. I know it sounds silly, but it's like painting a party hat on the top of Mona Lisa's head and a party horn in her mouth and then insisting that it's "Still the Mona Lisa...her original, beautiful eyes and ears still remain.." I call that denial.

(I'm not referring to you or your opinions, just stating my general beliefs)

I did not like the original top of OYS. Like I said, I do like the stringers and that we can see the upper deck spilling out of the exterior of the stadium.

[NYFan1stYankFan2nd]

I did not like the original top of OYS. Like I said, I do like the springers and that we can see the upper deck spilling out of the exterior of the stadium.

Wait - Jerry Springer was at the Stadium??

[quagmire]

Wait - Jerry Springer was at the Stadium??

Meant Stringers.

[Rob R]

The best I could find.

That's a very nice photo. Although it was criminal that they removed the frieze in the 1970's my problem with RYS lies more with the exterior. The upper deck of RYS was fascinating in its steepness and the sea of fans, BUT it was always missing something that was always associated with Yankee Stadium - the frieze. My father wasn't very fussy when it came to RYS, but he said that's the one facet of the original Yankee Stadium that he missed. He said that without the frieze, the interior looked like many other stadiums, that it lost its most distinguishable, identifiable feature - that plus the new field dimensions.

I can only go by photos, and without the support columns and frieze, Yankee Stadium just wasn't the same-it was more a defaced impostor, as my new signature says. But again, to me, the biggest crime is what they did to the exterior.

[Maas_Pasqua_Pags]

Guys, what's the status of the demolition?

Check my post. #7589

[YanksRule]

I'd say there's a really good chance the final wall gets pulled down tomorrow or Friday morning the latest considering there's only a small piece left and the Yankees come home for a homestand on Friday and I'm sure they want to finish things up before then